Maricopa Community Colleges  CRW230   19996-20036 
Official Course Description: MCCCD Approval: 02/23/99
CRW230 19996-20036 LEC 3 Credit(s) 3 Period(s)
Writing the Novel
Provides the beginning novelist with structure, support, and guidance vital to sustained writing; focus on establishing goals and using critique sessions with instructor and peers to draft a novel; open- and topic-focused in-class forums, novel writing, peer and instructor critiques. Prerequisites: CRW175.
Go to Competencies    Go to Outline
 
MCCCD Official Course Competencies:
 
CRW230   19996-20036 Writing the Novel
1. Write a synopsis of a novel in progress. (I)
2. Define and write technical goals for a novel manuscript. (II)
3. Define and write production goals for a novel manuscript. (II)
4. Evaluate progress toward technical and production goals. (IV)
5. Design a Reading/Response project with a partner. (V)
6. Describe essential elements of critical response to a novel in progress. (V)
7. Critique a partner's novel in progress. (V)
8. Analyze a partner's critique of one's own novel in progress. (V)
9. Describe ways to synthesize a writer's goals and advice gathered from a critique. (V, VI)
10. Write an ongoing response to the instructor's critique of one's work. (V, VI)
11. Write and submit to the instructor, in correct manuscript form, at least 50 new pages of a novel. (I-VI)
Go to Description    Go to top of Competencies
 
MCCCD Official Course Outline:
 
CRW230   19996-20036 Writing the Novel
    I. Writing a Novel Synopsis
      II. Establishing Goals for Writing a Novel
          A. Technical
          B. Production
          C. Manuscript form
        III. Drafting
          IV. Evaluating Progress
              A. Timeline
              B. Meeting projected goals
            V. Designing a Reading/Response Project
                A. Elements of critical response
                B. Writing a critical response to a peer's novel
                C. Receiving and analyzing a peer's response to one's own novel
                D. Receiving and analyzing instructor's response to one's own novel
                E. Responding to instructor's critique
              VI. Synthesizing Goals and Critical Response
              Go to Description    Go to top of Competencies    Go to top of Outline