English (ENGL) 384

Writing Creative Non-fiction (Revision 3)

Status:

Open

Delivery mode:

Individualized study online. Delivered via Brightspace.

Credits:

Areas of study:

Arts or Humanities

Prerequisites:

ENGL 211 and ENGL 212 or equivalent, and professor approval is required.

Course start date:

If you are a:

Self-funded student: register by the 10th of the month, start on the 1st of the next.
Funded student: please check the next enrolment deadline and course start date.

Precluded:

None

Challenge:

ENGL 384 is not available for challenge.

Faculty:

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

Notes:

Before contacting the professor with your request, please read Readiness for English 384. This document also provides further information about the course. Readiness for English 384

Overview

English 384: Writing Creative Non-fiction is a senior-level course that offers students the opportunity to write creative non-fiction and receive feedback on their writing. Creative non-fiction, also called literary non-fiction or literary journalism, is a genre that applies to non-fiction the principles of storytelling usually associated with fiction. Students will learn these principles of storytelling as they produce their own work.

English 384 is part of the English program at Athabasca University and can be taken for credit towards our degree in English, and other degree programs. Students can contact staff in the Centre for Humanities for more information about our degree

Evaluation

To receive credit for ENGL 384, you must achieve a minimum grade of 50 percent on each assignment and a composite grade of at least D (50 percent). The weighting of the assignments is as follows:

Activity	Weight
Assignment 1	10%
Assignment 2	20%
Assignment 3	15%
Assignment 4	20%
Assignment 5	25%
Assignment 6	10%
Total	100%

To learn more about assignments and examinations, please refer to Athabasca University’s online Calendar.

Materials

Digital course materials

Links to the following course materials will be made available in the course:

Miller, Brenda, and Suzanne Paola. Tell It Slant: Writing and Shaping Creative Nonfiction. New York: McGraw–Hill, 2019.

Physical course materials

The following course materials are included in a course package that will be shipped to your home prior to your course’s start date:

Armstrong, Luanne, and Zoë Landale. Slice Me Some Truth: An Anthology of Canadian Creative Nonfiction. Toronto: Wolsak & Wynn, 2011.

Other Materials

The course materials also include Readings, a Student Manual, and a Study Guide by writer and writing instructor Vivian Zenari.

Athabasca University reserves the right to amend course outlines occasionally and without notice. Courses offered by other delivery methods may vary from their individualized study counterparts.

Opened in Revision 3, August 31, 2023

Updated August 31, 2023

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