105 MW Magazine Writing for Publication

Dr. Heidi Emmerling

Schedule

(tentative with changes possible and probable)

ATTENDANCE AT THE FIRST THE CLASSES IS MANDATORY; ABSENT STUDENTS MAY BE DROPPED IN ORDER TO GIVE THE SPACE TO OTHERS ON THE WAITING LIST

Week One

Tues 1/9: Intro to course

Thurs 1/11: CR: Being and Becoming a Writer

Review Personal/Professional Goals/Objectives

Week Two

Tues 1/16: WW 11-29, 62-79

CR: Letter Perfect; A Rogue’s Gallery; Strategic Submissions; Anatomy of a Winner; Power Querying

Thurs 1/18: WW 29-39; 79-106;

CR: Listening; Op-Ed;

Discuss Interview assignment

Week Three

Conferences

Tues 1/23: Readings, CR: Constance Penley and Ava Gardner

Thurs 1/25: Readings, CR: Is it Live… and The Maker’s Eye Revision exercise

Week Four

Tues 1/30 CR: The Practice of Literacy; The Most Common Errors; The Case for Vigorous Verbs; Verb Form; Weak Passive Voice; Revising for Conciseness; To Be Verbs; Verbs: Revision Exercise; Punctuation Notes; The K Chronicles

Draft of first Interview due (5% 1200 words).

Peer Review (5%)

Thurs 2/1 CR Your Voice and Your Audience

Discuss Re-Write Assignment

Week Five

Mon 2/5 Drop Deadline

Tues 2/6 Interview Due (15% 1600-1800 words).

CR: Human Face of War Response due

Thurs 2/8 CR: A Sudden Illness and Last of the Metrozoids. Responses due

Week 6

Tues 2/13 Draft of re-write due (5% 1200 words) Papers returned.

Discuss Feature

Thurs 2/15 Peer review (5%)

Week 7

Tues 2/20 Rewrite paper due (15% 1200-1300 words). Papers cont.

WW 40-62

Thurs 2/22 Papers returned. WW 106-138

Week 8

Tues 2/27 WW 138-185

Thurs 3/1 Draft of Feature Due (5%1500 words)

Week 9

Tues 3/5 Conferences

Thurs 3/6 Conferences

Week 10

Tues 3/13 Peer Review (5%)

Thurs 3/15 Final Paper due (20% 2000 words)

Final Day

Friday 4-5: Pick up papers & grade in my office