WRIT 344
Writing for Publication and Profit
4 Undergraduate credits
Effective
August 16, 2017
– Present
Graduation requirements this course fulfills
This course examines writing as a full-or part-time business. Students learn to market their writing to appropriate publications, create effective book proposals, understand the conventions of the publishing industry and edit their own work.
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Learning outcomes
General
- Translate ideas into salable form.
- Understand how to organize an idea into a book proposal.
- Able to market ideas at an advanced level in business correspondence, such as professional query letters.
- Advanced analysis of publication needs of a book publishing house.
- Advanced understanding of how to analyze a magazine's needs and determine which publications are appropriate markets for student's creative works.
- Recognize original, salable ideas.