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Essay Instructions: Creative Writing 202 CASE STUDY: Writers at Work

Two of the best things for an apprentice writer to do ??" for any writer to do ??" are to observe and to steal. This is an assignment designed to help you do both. Read at least 3 short fiction stories by T. C. Boyle. Read these pieces for the sake of seeing how they work and why they work. Then, write a 1000 word/4 page essay discussing these elements. MLA format for any works cited.
Give some background on this writer. What things has this author written ??" what are his key works? What compelling biographical factors are there? Write about what excites captivates and interests you in this person’s short fiction: How does the author do it? What techniques, ideas, approaches, ideas do you find? Your job is to pay passionate attention to the specific dynamics that make you find this person’s work compelling. Feel free to share some excerpts.
As for stealing: the point is not to take techniques to copy exactly, but to open yourself up to principles that you can adapt and appropriate. This kind of literary larceny is actually the convergence of creative minds gaining insight and energy from one another. Simply being able to recognize techniques at work is a gift.

Technical details:
Put your name and the day we meet on your papers!
Paginate
Use MLA citation style: I expect in-text parenthetical documentation on this assignment and a works cited page.
Include a bibliography page that lists the author’s key works.
Go beyond Wikipedia for your information.
Book titles go in italics!
Short story titles go in quotation marks
Punctuation ??" commas, periods ??" goes INSIDE quotation marks.
Consider opening the essay with an epigram: a brief quote from or by the author

Essay Instructions: Creative Writing Essay's-Graduate Level Education Course

1st Essay (1 FULL Page): "Statement of Faith" for non-denomonimational Christianity

2nd Essay (1 FULL Page): How your Christian worldview informs your approach to your academic discipline (Criminal Justice) and to your teaching.

No references needed. If you have any questions, please let me know. Thank you for your time.

Respectfully,

T.R.

Essay Instructions: Creative writing for a theatre class


You can’t truly understand the challenges of playwrighting until you’ve tried it yourself. Your assignment is to write a scene of two to three pages involving two characters. You might create conflict by having one character know something that the other doesn’t or by having one character want something that the other character has. If you need an idea to get you started, think of an argument you have had or witnessed. What was at stake?

Essay Instructions: Creative Writing 202:CASE STUDY/Poetry
This works like the case study for fiction: I want you to observe and borrow from a poet whom you are willing to briefly apprentice yourself to. Read 12 poems by Emily Dickinson. Once again, you are reading these pieces for the sake of seeing how they work and why they work. Then, write a 1000 word/4 page essay discussing these elements.
Once again, give some background on your writer. What things has this poet written ??" what are her/his key works? What compelling biographical factors are there? Write about what excites captivates and interests you in this person’s poetry: How does the poet do it? What techniques, ideas and approaches do you find? And, once again, write about what excites captivates and interests you in what this person writes: How does the poet do it? What techniques, ideas or approaches do you find? Your job is still to pay passionate attention to the specific dynamics that make you find this person’s work compelling. This time you need to bring some copies of the poetry to hand out to your group members.
As I said about stealing before: the point is not to take techniques to copy exactly, but to open yourself up to principles that you can adapt and appropriate. This kind of literary larceny is actually the convergence of creative minds gaining insight and energy from one another. Simply being able to recognize techniques at work is a gift.
Technical details:

Put your name and the day we meet on your papers!
Paginate
Use MLA citation style: I expect in-text parenthetical documentation on this assignment and a works cited page.
Include a bibliography page that lists the author’s key works.
Go beyond Wikipedia for your information.
Book titles go in italics!
Short story titles go in quotation marks
Punctuation ??" commas, periods ??" goes INSIDE quotation marks.
Consider opening the essay with an epigram: a brief quote from or by the author
Consider having a handout for the others in your group.