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ENGL 2025 - Creative Writing: Media Writing

Credits: 3
Hours/Week: Lecture 3Lab None
Course Description: This creative writing class intended for all students covers the study and practice of various forms of media writing including personality profiles, event stories, and opinion pieces. Writing suitable for publication in popular newspapers, magazines, journals, and electronic media is emphasized. This type of writing is fundamental to the free exchange of ideas in society, a necessary mechanism for understanding a variety of viewpoints required by well-informed citizens. Because creative writing involves both creativity and scholarship, coursework includes critical analysis of student and published writing; forming aesthetic judgments about media writing; writing and revising stories; form and technique in media writing; and responding to the creative work of classmates in a writing community. This course does not fulfill the Literature requirement for the Associate of Arts degree at Century College.
MnTC Goals
9 Ethical/Civic Responsibility

Prerequisite(s): Assessment score placement in ENGL 1021  or completion of ENGL 0090  with a grade of C or higher. Assessment score placement in RDNG 1000  or completion of RDNG 0900  or RDNG 0950  with a grade of C or higher.
Corequisite(s): None
Recommendation: Completion of ENGL 1021 . Basic word processing and computer skills.

Major Content
  1. Electronic media
  2. Ethical and legal standards
  3. Gathering information; developing questions and interviewing
  4. Getting published; marketing stories and query letters
  5. Goals and responsibilities of nonfiction writers
  6. leads and story structure
  7. Media issues such as cartoon controversies and increasing concentration of media.
  8. Various types of media stories including personality profiles, event stories, and opinion pieces

Learning Outcomes
At the end of this course students will be able to:

  1. employ their own ethical views in assessing and producing nonfiction writing.
  2. apply media writing core concepts in their own media writing.
  3. employ appropriate techniques in marketing nonfiction stories.
  4. apply principles of contemporary aesthetics to their own media writing.
  5. analyze ethical dimensions of legal, social, scientific, and other issues as presented in media publications.
  6. critique published media writing as models for their own media writing.
  7. identify the diversity of political motivations and interests of others including newsmakers, sources of information, and readers.


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