106-062 Writing Non-Fictional Forms

Formerly available as 106-288/388. Students who have completed 106-288 or 106-388 are not eligible to enrol in this subject. This subject is not available to students who have completed 760-207 Non-fiction.

Usually 25 points of first-year English, see Prerequisites, including completion of first-year creative writing prerequisites.

This subject asks students to develop their own non-fiction writing, short or longer, through the study of course materials, through class discussions, workshop sessions and submission of draft material. The topics dealt with in this subject will include sport, travel, political and autobiographical writing. The subject enables students to develop and draft a number of related or unrelated essays and other creative non-fictions, and to gain an understanding of the writing workshop process.

Class participation, and written work totalling 4000 words.

A subject reader will be available.