ENG 258 Experimental Fiction
This course explores the rhetorical strategies and stylistic choices that writers make when writing experimental fiction. This class stresses refining your style and finding/re-finding your voice. Knowing your audience is key to writing successful fiction. You’ll determine the audience you’ll write for each piece, and you’ll discover/re-discover the rhetorical strategies appropriate to that audience. In this class you’ll spend time reading and analyzing the works of professional writers as you develop writing, revising, and editorial skills. These skills you’ll use when you write your own work and to critique the work of your classmates in Break-out Confab/Partners meetings when you’re not in class, and during the Writer’s Workshop in class. This course emphasizes the connections between active reading, composing, and substantial, creative revision. Furthermore, this course seeks to prepare you for graduate work in literature or writing, for positions in publishing and writing, and writing for corporations and businesses.