Creative Writing:
- Use formal techniques of point of view, description, and dialogue in Fiction and/or Creative Nonfiction;
- Produces original Fiction with coherence and purpose;
- Use traditional structural tools in Poetry (e.g., repetition, line breaks, rhyme, rhythm, stanzaic composition);
- Produces original Poetry composed with figurative language, imagery, and tone;
- Applies knowledge of craft in Creative Nonfiction;
- Produces inquiries into Creative Nonfiction beyond individual experiences;
- Writes in an interesting and engaging voice, including an attempt to reach beyond the derivative and clichéd;
- Discusses own writing within a literary context.
Literature:
- Develops an arguable claim based on analysis of relevant evidence from the literary text.
- Evaluates the significance of cultural and/or literary context
- Frames a research problem grounded in and contributing to an ongoing critical discourse.
- Produces an effective research project in an appropriate modality that achieves a coherent rhetorical structure, incorporates research, and demonstrates familiarity with relevant critical questions.
PPW:
- Composes effective and situationally aware prose;
- Shows evidence of professional editing principles;
- Demonstrates knowledge of theories and concepts relevant to professional and public writing;
- Applies research-based principles of professional and public writing;
- Analyzes and addresses particular audiences, with clear attention to social and cultural dynamics.