2024-2025 Yavapai College Catalog 
    
    Oct 31, 2024  
2024-2025 Yavapai College Catalog

ENG 144 - Short Story Writing


Description: Beginning techniques used in writing fiction, focusing on the short story.

Credits: 3
Lecture: 3
Lab: 0

Course Content:
  1. Elements of fiction writing (e.g., plot, viewpoint, characterization)
  2. Close reading of literary and student texts
  3. Methods of crafting, critiquing and revising short stories

Learning Outcomes:
  1. Identify and apply elements of fiction (e.g. plot, viewpoint, characterization). (1)
  2. Analyze and evaluate literary and student texts. (2)
  3. Write, critique and revise own writing. (3)

Required Assessment:
  1. Minimum of 5,000 words monitored writing