Objective
Your final project should demonstrate that you have met the Student Learning Outcomes (SLOs) of WRIT 5130 to the best of your ability.
Those SLOs state that students who successfully complete WRIT 3130 will be able to:
- Identify the terminology of craft and recognize genres and forms within fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction.
- Apply methods and processes to generate ideas, research, draft, revise, and critique original writing.
- Analyze texts by published authors as well as peers for the elements of craft and literary strategies.
- Evaluate their own works and the works of their peers and provide critical feedback via a variety of methods, including workshop.
- Author original works demonstrating artistic development and synthesis of critical feedback, research, and rhetorical awareness developed through a process of revision and reflection.
Overview
Your final project requires you to prepare two separate items:
- A creative writing portfolio consisting of original writing in three genres (creative nonfiction, fiction, and poetry) you have written and submitted for the course
- A critical response in which you critically analyze and respond to item #1
Required Component #1: The Portfolio
The portfolio needs to consist of:
- Pieces of creative writing that demonstrate careful revision and artistic development. Your revisions should be consistent with the genres and forms of contemporary creative writing, meeting or exceeding the standards set by the exemplary texts we have read, discussed, and evaluated in our course.
- A manuscript of this collected work, including a title page, table of contents, page numbers, and author’s biographical note.
Required Component #2: The Critical Response
Your portfolio will be accompanied by a separate piece of writing in which you provide a critical response to your revised creative work.
Your critical response should address the following questions: