WRIT 305 - Introduction to Inspirational Writing

WRIT 305 Discussion Board Forums (5)

Discussion boards are collaborative learning experiences. Therefore, the student will create a thread in response to the provided prompt for each forum. Each thread must be at least 200 words and demonstrate course-related knowledge with at least 1 citation from the course textbooks. In addition to the thread, the student will reply to the threads of at least 2 classmates. Each reply must be at least 100 words.

WRIT 305 Foundational Writing Projects (4)

The student will write a focused description for each of the following topics: Personal Philosophy, Audience, Character Review, and Context. Each assignment must be used to support the Final Project, and lecture material must also be incorporated into each assignment. Each assignment must be at least 500 words and be submitted through the SafeAssign link in Blackboard.

Creative Writing Exercise

The student will write a scene of at least 500 words that might feature in his or her manuscript. It should not be a scene the student plans to use for the final project, but it should be a scene the student could envision using at some point in his or her fiction or nonfiction manuscript. The student will use, regardless of whether he or she has chosen fiction or nonfiction, narrative techniques/building blocks that are commonly used in both genres.

Book Proposal

The student will write a book proposal with the following items: title, author biography, book description, overview of book/chapter summaries with titles, audience, author promotion and platform, competition, manuscript length, ship date/completion date.

WRIT 305 Final Project

The Final Project represents the student’s first attempt at a first chapter of an inspirational book, either fiction or nonfiction. The student will integrate what he or she has written in the Foundational Writing Projects as well as lessons learned in the textbook readings and in the lectures. This assignment must be 1,500–2,000 words and be submitted through the SafeAssign link in Blackboard.