Gadbow, Kate

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University of MontanaScholarWorks at University of MontanaSyllabi Course SyllabiFall 9-1-2000ENCR 210.03: Creative Writing - FictionKate GadbowThe University of MontanaLet us know how access to this document benefits you.Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.umt.edu/syllabiThis Syllabus is brought to you for free and open access by the Course Syllabi at ScholarWorks at University of Montana. It has been accepted forinclusion in Syllabi by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks at University of Montana. For more information, please contactscholarworks@mso.umt.edu.Recommended CitationGadbow, Kate, "ENCR 210.03: Creative Writing - Fiction" (2000). Syllabi. 5018.https://scholarworks.umt.edu/syllabi/5018G?At)3o^/2 lc > .o $ENCR 210. SECTION 03 CREATIVE WRITING: FICTIONInstructor: Kate Gadbow Office: LA 211Classroom: JOUR 306 Phone: 243-2029Class time: TTh 2:10 - 3:30 E-mail: kgadbow@selway.umt.eduOffice hours: T 3:30 - 5 Th 3:30 - 5 and by appointment.This course is designed to develop your skills in w riting, reading, revising, and responding to fiction. Each of you will write a short story to be handed in at a specified deadline. You will revise this story as a final project. We'll also read a bunch of fiction—published work as well as the w ork of class members. I'll require typed responses to the stories we workshop and will also collect exercises. I'll conference w ith each of you once during the semester, around midterms. I hope you'll conference w ith  each other m uch m ore often than that.Text: Writing Fiction: A Guide to the Narrative Craft (5th edition) by Janet Burroway. Available at the UC Bookstore.Supplies: A folder of some type for keeping all your work. Paper, pencils etc. for in- class exercises. A disk to use in the University's labs if you don 't have your own computer.Course Requirements:* One short story, to be rew ritten as a final project. Stories will be discussed in a workshop setting, so you 'll need to hand in enough copies for the entire class.* Num erous exercises, to be typed and handed in.* Typed, one-page critiques of student stories discussed in class. Make two copies, one for the w riter and one to hand in for inclusion in your portfolio. Critiques will be assigned for each workshop. Everyone will do at least six.* Attendance is vital. Your engagement and responses are as im portant as your w ritten work. More than two absences, for any reason, will hu rt your grade.Grades:I'll provide you w ith plenty of w ritten  and spoken comments on your work, but no letter grade until the end of the semester. I'll let you know how you're doing at the m idterm  conference and at any other time you need to know. Final grades will be based on the quality and im provem ent of your writing; on the quality of your criticism; and on your level of participation and adherence to deadlines.CALENDARFriday, Sept. 8 & Saturday, Sept. 9 M ontana Festival of the Book (Panels and readings by local and regional writers. Downtown Missoula.)Thursday - Saturday, September 21-23 Five Rivers Film Festival: American Indians and the Mythic West. Panels and screenings on campus and downtown.Thursday, October 12 - W orkshop and conference sign-up.Friday, October 13 - Poet Lynn Emanuel reading on campus.October 17, October 19 - Conference week. No class.Tuesday, October 24 - Story due, with enough copies for class.Friday, October 27 - Poet Agha Shahid Ali reading on campus.Friday, Novem ber 3 - Fiction/Non-fiction w riter Joy Williams reading. Tuesday, November 7- Election Day. No Class.Friday, November 17 - Poet /N on-fiction w riter Alison Deming reading. Novem ber 22 to 26 - Thanksgiving break. No Class.Thursday, December 14 - Portfolios due.Wednesday, Dec. 20. Final 3:20 p.m. Portfolios returned.Autumn Semester 2000 Course ScheduleRequired: Writing Poems by Wallace and Boisseau, Fifth Edition The Triggering Town by Richard Hugo A two-pocket folder to organize drafts and assignments With the exception of BOLD dates, this is an approximate schedule and subject to revisionas the semester progresses.Week 1 — Introduction. Found poem exercise (linebreaks).Chapters 1 and 2. Verse, Line, Diction. Obscurity v. Ambiguity.September12 — Chapter 3-4. Prose poems.14 -  continued. Free write assignment.1 9 - -Chapter 5. Sound. Writing assignment.21 — continued26 — Chapter 6. Subject matter. Writing assignment.28 — continued. Workshop rules.October3 — Chapter 7. Narrative. Bring Poems to Class fo r  first Workshop.5 -  First Workshop 10 — Workshop1 2 - -Chapter 8. Metaphor. Writing assignment. Outside reading assignment.17 -- Workshop (Prepare to submit mss to upper division cr. wr. courses.)19 — Review of text, review of paper requirements 24 -  MIDTERM TEST26 — Chapter 9. The Sense of Nonsense. Writing assignment.31 -- WorkshopNovember (Pre-registration for spring semester begins Nov. 6. See your advisor NOW !!!)2 -- PAPER TOPICS DUE. Review of literary paper/guidelines.7 — Holiday-Don’t forget to vote!14 -  Chapter 10. Imitations. Writing assignment.16 — Workshop21 -  Chapter 11. Revisions. Writing assignment.23 - Holiday 28 — Workshop 30 — Workshop December5 -Workshop. PAPERS DUE!7 — Chapter 12 discussion.12— Workshop/revision. Papers returned.14—Final workshop. Portfolios DueFinal Exam: Tuesday, December 19 3:20-5:20 p.m.

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