The Boston College Experience Two-Week Non-Credit Program offers two writing courses: Writing for College and Creative Writing Workshop
Writing for College-
An introductory course in which students will learn strategies for writing college level prose and read published examples from several fields. The course will have an emphasis on steady production and revision of texts. Through exercises and/or open and directed writing assignments, students will produce two finished short essays. By the end of this course, students will have developed an understanding of the demands of college level writing, including idea generation, research tools, and the formal expectations of diction, syntax and style; improved their close reading of texts via assigned readings; become more comfortable with writing for college; and produced two short, completed essays. Revisions are the most significant part of the process, and we will spend ample class time thinking about revision and how to make each student’s voice distinctive, so they stand out from the hordes of other student writers.
Creative Writing Workshop-Through the study of creative writing, students will explore their own unique voices and the diverse voices of published writers. Students will identify and analyze different styles of writing and collect a "toolbox" of craft techniques that they will put into practice by writing their own original creative pieces. Classes will consist of reading, discussion, writing exercises, and writing workshops in which students will have the opportunity to give and receive constructive feedback on their work. Though this course will primarily focus on fiction writing, students will have the opportunity to write poetry and creative nonfiction during in-class exercises. As a capstone, students will have the opportunity to present their work in a class reading.
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