LLWRC 780 - Get Started: The Writer's Toolbox

This course will focus on a group of specific techniques for shaping and informing your writing, including voice, tone, and point of view; use of tense; and use of detail. Through analysis and discussion of sample texts and numerous in-class exercises, we will work toward achieving vivid precision. Each session will focus on a different tool or group of related tools; come prepared to read, write, and talk. To get the most out of this class, we suggest you prepare by taking 'Read Like a Writer,' above. Poet and creative writer Jennifer Tonge has an MFA from the U. She is the recipient of several national awards and fellowships, and her published work has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including The American Literary Review, Folio, Poetry, Ploughshares, The New England Review, and Denver Quarterly.