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Department of English
Student Learning Outcomes

Contact

Anton DiSclafani

Anton DiSclafani

Alumni Writer-in-Residence

Director of Undergraduate Studies

abd0025@auburn.edu

Creative Writing:

  1. Use formal techniques of point of view, description, and dialogue in Fiction and/or Creative Nonfiction;
  2. Produces original Fiction with coherence and purpose;
  3. Use traditional structural tools in Poetry (e.g., repetition, line breaks, rhyme, rhythm, stanzaic composition);
  4. Produces original Poetry composed with figurative language, imagery, and tone;
  5. Applies knowledge of craft in Creative Nonfiction;
  6. Produces inquiries into Creative Nonfiction beyond individual experiences;
  7. Writes in an interesting and engaging voice, including an attempt to reach beyond the derivative and clichéd;
  8. Discusses own writing within a literary context.

Literature:

  1. Develops an arguable claim based on analysis of relevant evidence from the literary text.
  2. Evaluates the significance of cultural and/or literary context
  3. Frames a research problem grounded in and contributing to an ongoing critical discourse.
  4. 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:

  1. Composes effective and situationally aware prose;
  2. Shows evidence of professional editing principles;
  3. Demonstrates knowledge of theories and concepts relevant to professional and public writing;
  4. Applies research-based principles of professional and public writing;
  5. Analyzes and addresses particular audiences, with clear attention to social and cultural dynamics.

Contact

Anton DiSclafani

Anton DiSclafani

Associate Professor

Director of Undergraduate Studies

abd0025@auburn.edu