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Creative Nonfiction Workshop

X140 (2 semester units in English)

An elective in the Post-Baccalaureate Certificate Program in Writing

This workshop provides an opportunity for writers to apply the techniques of storytelling to nonfiction prose pieces, including personal essays, features, commentary, reviews, reports, journal entries, and memoirs. Together, the instructor and other participants form your audience, offering support and critical feedback about your pieces. Weekly class discussions and writing assignments focus on such story principles as plot, tension, scene, and dialogue that help you increase the readability of your work and form your material into publishable pieces. Classroom enrollment is limited to 18.

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ARLENE PLEVIN, M.F.A., Ph.D., has extensive experience as a freelance writer, specializing in travel and environmental topics. She has taught English and writing since 1979.

• Online course: Internet access required
• Enroll anytime: You have 6 months to complete
• $550 (EDP 867630)

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Textbook(s) for this course:
The Art of the Personal Essay: An Anthology from the Classical Era to the Present
Author: Phillip Lopate
Publisher: Anchor Books
Publication Year: 1995
ISBN: 038542339X

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The Dolphin Reader
Author: Douglas Hunt
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Edition: 6th
Publication Year: 2003
ISBN: 0618218467

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English X140 Reader
This reader must be purchased from Specialty Books at www.specialty-books.com/unex/ or by calling 1-800-466-1365.

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Tues. Sept. 15, Berkeley

DAVID SCHWEIDEL, M.F.A., is the author of Confidence of the Heart,, winner of the Milkweed National Fiction Prize. A nonfiction book, Victorio Peak: The Pursuit of a Postmodern Treasure, co-written with Robert Boswell, was published in August 2008.

• 10 meetings
• Sept. 15 to Nov. 24: Tues., 7-10 pm
• Berkeley: 2304 Tolman Hall, UC campus
• $495 (EDP 021030)

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