Catalog: Elements of Writing

Creativity: Bringing Out Your Best Stuff - LC002

Taught by Wesley Sharpe, Ed. D.

This workshop is designed to provide students with an intensive introduction to creativity. Learners focus on improving their writing by learning to recognize and use the creative process. By practicing ways they learn to think and write creatively.

Creative writing exercises include:

• directed flow writing,
• brainstorming
• making cluster diagrams

Get Up and Get Started! - LC024

Taught by Joy Rothke

You say you want to be a writer. But are you ready to you ready to shut your office door, apply your seat to your chair and write? Do you have a plan? The difference between wanting to be a writer and being a writer is having a plan.

Introduction to English Sentences - LC008

Taught by George Ann Gregory, Ph.D.

This course introduces parts of sentences, common sentence structures and how to punctuate them.

The Novel Elements: What Every Writer Should Know - LC011

Taught by Tim Wright

The first thing agents and editors look for is knowledge of the novel elements.

• characterization,
• plot and setting,
• dialogue, and
• POV