Teaching of Writing
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The core of the teaching of writing curriculum is a series of graduate courses and seminars devoted to theories and methods of teaching composition. Students in this emphasis investigate ways of learning to write and rhetorical and linguistic approaches to the teaching of writing. In addition, students improve their own writing skills through a writing workshop and by working on a project directed by a faculty advisor. The Teaching Writing Emphasis is not a program designed to develop writers of fiction and poetry; in other words, it is not an M.F.A. program in creative writing. It is designed to prepare teachers of all kinds of writing, creative and expository.
Degrees Offered
MA