This course introduces students to professional editorial conventions at two later stages of the editorial process. Both stages require analytical skills and sentence expertise. Through stylistic editing, students learn how to improve a writer’s literary style; through copy editing, they learn how to ensure both accuracy and consistency (editorial style).
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WRR310H1 - Stylistic Editing and Copy Editing
Hours: 36S
Exclusion: INI310H1
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)
Mode of Delivery: In Class
WRR311Y1 - Seminar in Creative Writing
Hours: 72S
This workshop course examines methodological approaches to literary fiction from the perspective of the creator. Through course readings, discussion, and creative writing assignments, student writers will learn how prose writers combine stylistic techniques, point-of-view, setting, character, scenes, and structure to produce literary effects.
Exclusion: INI311Y1
Recommended Preparation: Experience or strong interest in writing fiction.
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)
Mode of Delivery: In Class
WRR312H1 - Writing Literary Journalism
This course introduces students to works by some of the most influential literary journalists of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Classes will be devoted to individual literary-journalistic genres: the personal essay, the profile, the polemic, the memoir, literary reportage, and cultural criticism. Students will look closely at key writers who worked across these genres: George Orwell, James Baldwin, Joan Didion, Joyce Carol Oates. Over the semester, students will develop and write a feature-length work of literary journalism in a genre of their choice, to be refined through peer workshop and instructor feedback.
Exclusion: INI308H1 (Selected Topics in Writing and Rhetoric: Writing Literary Journalism), offered in Summer 2021
Recommended Preparation: Experience or strong interest in writing journalism.
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)
Mode of Delivery: In Class
WRR316H1 - Developmental and Substantive Editing
Hours: 36S
This course introduces professional editorial conventions at two early stages of the editorial process. Both stages require editors to think critically and creatively as they assess content, organization, and argument. Students learn how to analyze and evaluate these elements, envision possible improvements, and explain these suggestions persuasively.
Exclusion: INI316H1
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)
Mode of Delivery: In Class
WRR405Y1 - Independent Studies in Writing and Rhetoric
Independent research projects devised by students and supervised by the Writing and Rhetoric staff. Open only to students who are completing the Minor Program in Writing and Rhetoric Program. Applications should be submitted to the Program Director by June 1 for a Fall session course or by November 1 for a Spring session course. Not eligible for CR/NCR option.
Exclusion: INI405Y1
Distribution Requirements: Humanities, Social Science
Mode of Delivery: In Class
WRR406H1 - Independent Studies in Writing and Rhetoric
Independent research projects devised by students and supervised by the Writing and Rhetoric staff. Open only to students who are completing the Minor Program in Writing and Rhetoric Program. Applications should be submitted to the Program Director by June 1 for a Fall session course or by November 1 for a Spring session course. Not eligible for CR/NCR option.
Exclusion: INI406H1
Distribution Requirements: Humanities, Social Science
Mode of Delivery: In Class
WRR407H1 - Independent Studies in Writing and Rhetoric
Independent research projects devised by students and supervised by the Writing and Rhetoric staff. Open only to students who are completing the Minor Program in Writing and Rhetoric Program. Applications should be submitted to the Program Director by June 1 for a Fall session course or by November 1 for a Spring session course. Not eligible for CR/NCR option.
Exclusion: INI407H1
Distribution Requirements: Humanities, Social Science
Mode of Delivery: In Class
WRR408Y1 - Special Topics in Writing and Rhetoric
Seminars in special topics designed for students who are completing the Minor Program in Writing and Rhetoric.
Distribution Requirements: Humanities, Social Science
Mode of Delivery: In Class
WRR409H1 - Special Topics in Writing and Rhetoric
Hours: 36S
Seminars in special topics designed for students who are completing the Minor Program in Writing and Rhetoric.
Distribution Requirements: Humanities, Social Science
Mode of Delivery: In Class
WRR410H1 - Special Topics in Writing and Rhetoric
Hours: 36S
Seminars in special topics designed for students who are completing the Minor Program in Writing and Rhetoric.
Distribution Requirements: Humanities, Social Science
Mode of Delivery: In Class
WRR413H1 - Visual Rhetoric of the Aesthetic Movement
Hours: 36L
Explores the role of writing and rhetoric in the shaping of material culture and public taste in Victorian illustrated magazines and newspapers in the Aesthetic period (1860-1900). The Great Exhibition of 1851 will provide the context for this study of texts and objects, including the decorative arts.
Exclusion: INI413H1
Recommended Preparation: WRR103H1/ WRR203H1/ WRR204H1
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
Mode of Delivery: In Class
WRR414H1 - Writing for Social Change
Hours: 36S
We will read and write a variety of texts focused on effecting social change. Students will be encouraged to engage with different theories of social change and an array of writing genres, ranging from journalism to critical theory to fiction. Ultimately, students will focus on one or several key social issues that they wish to write about for their final project.
Exclusion: INI414H1
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)
Mode of Delivery: In Class