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This course entails an intensive study of
writing techniques. The approach involves
discussion, dissection and imitation. Each lecture
will begin with the discussion of submitted
texts by class members. The second part will involve
the close scrutiny of a published text, paying
special attention to matters of style and structure,
word choice, mannerism, dialogue, social
context, theory, autobiography, intertextuality; hence,
dissection. Each week's assignment will be to
produce an "imitation" of the text studied.
These texts will be chosen to illustrate a variety of
approaches to writing, and to raise some of the
basic questions of writing.
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