Wednesday, April 9, 2014
Monday, March 31, 2014
Final paper, due 5/2, 11:59 P.M. send word.doc file to gmajer@stevenson.edu
Final project: Creative Nonfiction
1500 words minimum; 3000 words maximum
Double spaced, Times New Roman 12 point font
Any research sources cited, use MLA or APA format
Using techniques of storytelling, description, and meditation/reflection, one of the following:
1. Your own autobiography/memoir focusing on people, places, things, adventures, tragedies, comedies, philosophies, visions, and anything else you find rich and interesting and maybe even intense and dramatic and scary in your life experience. Our in-class writing will help provide raw material for you to shape into this piece. In this project, you also can include related photographs, segments of poetry or lyric prose, audio or video accompaniments, drawings, maps, diagrams, and any number of other relevant and interesting objects that come from your life archive.
2. Or your own exploration of something you really love, something that has been an obsession, a main interest, a fascination, so that you will absolutely love and get into writing about it and this project will be a pleasure to create. Again, we will write some in-class material for this; and again, other media/materials can be included with your text. This one can also pull in material from research. For example, right now I'm obsessed with fountains (don't ask me why, but maybe writing will help me to find out) and via internet and talking to people and so on, I have discovered all sorts of great material that I can write about.
1500 words minimum; 3000 words maximum
Double spaced, Times New Roman 12 point font
Any research sources cited, use MLA or APA format
Using techniques of storytelling, description, and meditation/reflection, one of the following:
1. Your own autobiography/memoir focusing on people, places, things, adventures, tragedies, comedies, philosophies, visions, and anything else you find rich and interesting and maybe even intense and dramatic and scary in your life experience. Our in-class writing will help provide raw material for you to shape into this piece. In this project, you also can include related photographs, segments of poetry or lyric prose, audio or video accompaniments, drawings, maps, diagrams, and any number of other relevant and interesting objects that come from your life archive.
2. Or your own exploration of something you really love, something that has been an obsession, a main interest, a fascination, so that you will absolutely love and get into writing about it and this project will be a pleasure to create. Again, we will write some in-class material for this; and again, other media/materials can be included with your text. This one can also pull in material from research. For example, right now I'm obsessed with fountains (don't ask me why, but maybe writing will help me to find out) and via internet and talking to people and so on, I have discovered all sorts of great material that I can write about.
Wednesday, March 26, 2014
Thursday, March 20, 2014
Secret Histories: Creative Nonfiction: The Outsider
Secret Histories: The Outsider
We're defining the "outsider" as any person viewed as outside the group, the norm, the "right" people, and so on. This may be someone from childhood days, someone in your family, some neighbor or fellow worker or fellow student--anybody who was marked as "different" or "not right" or "not normal" or "odd" or "strange"(Yes, it also can be a self-portrait of you in an outsider phase).
In-class writing:
Write a nonfiction (true, real-life) story about an outsider in your life.
1. 15 minutes: the person's house, car, bike, any and all objects/things that he/she uses.
2. 15 minutes: the person's behavior, things he/she typically does.
3. 10 minutes: what the person looks like--clothes, appearance, etc.
4. 15 minutes: what happened one particular time with the person--a little anecdote or story.
We're defining the "outsider" as any person viewed as outside the group, the norm, the "right" people, and so on. This may be someone from childhood days, someone in your family, some neighbor or fellow worker or fellow student--anybody who was marked as "different" or "not right" or "not normal" or "odd" or "strange"(Yes, it also can be a self-portrait of you in an outsider phase).
In-class writing:
Write a nonfiction (true, real-life) story about an outsider in your life.
1. 15 minutes: the person's house, car, bike, any and all objects/things that he/she uses.
2. 15 minutes: the person's behavior, things he/she typically does.
3. 10 minutes: what the person looks like--clothes, appearance, etc.
4. 15 minutes: what happened one particular time with the person--a little anecdote or story.
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