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Goldey-Beacom College Course Info

Wilmington, Delaware

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ENG 270

Introduction to Fiction Writing

A treatment of the elements of fiction from the writer’s point of view. Elements covered are Getting Started (Freewriting, Journal Keeping), Story Form and Structure (Conflict, Crisis, and Resolution), Showing and Telling (Detail), Characterization (Direct and Indirect Methods of Presentation of Character), Fictional Place and Time (Setting, Atmosphere), Point of View (Narrator, Person) and Revision. Imagination and personal experience are both employed as tools used during the creative process of writing.

Units: 3.0

Prerequisites:
ENG 176 - Critical Writing II
and
ENG 175 - Critical Writing I