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Course Description: Literary Journalism
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Course Description: Literary Journalism

Literary Journalism

53-3505

Literary journalism is a sophisticated skills course focusing on the use of literary strategies and techniques in modern feature journalism. The specific focus of the course work is the dramatic nonfiction or "narrative" story, a form that requires both literary and expository techniques. The course concentrates on theory as well story craft, including finding, analyzing, researching, synthesizing, outlining, writing, rewriting, and polishing newspaper series and magazine stories, with some discussion of book-length journalism.

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