Topics in Advanced Writing
Session
Regular Academic Session
Class Number
4759
Career
Undergraduate
Units
3 units
Grading
Graded Alpha
Topic
Intro to Scholarly Editing
Description
This is a course in writing clear and effective prose in whatever form/genre is being studied; the subtitle will define the form/genre more precisely.

Prerequisite: UCWR 110.

Outcomes: Students will gain an understanding of the principles involved in writing clear and effective prose in whatever form/genre is under study, and be able to apply these principles to their own writing in this form/genre.
Enrollment Requirements
Pre-requisites: UCWR 110, C- or higher Pre-requisites: UCWR 110, C- or higher
Requirement Designation
Undergraduate Research and Writing Intensive
Class Attributes
Engaged Learning
Women & Gender Studies
Class Notes
This is a writing intensive class. A grade of C- or better in UCWR 110 is required to enroll. This Undergraduate Research Course (Engaged Learning) will introduce students to the theories and practices of scholarly editing as students assist in producing the Amy Lowell Letters Project (ALLP), a digital scholarly edition of the letters of American poet, critic, and editor (1874-1925). Our focus this semester will be on her correspondences with other poets and with magazine editors. In order to contextualize Lowell¿s career, and the editorial work and collaborative project building at the heart of this class, we will study the New Poetry movement and early 20th century magazine culture, as well as historic debates in scholarly editing, editing correspondences, and literary digital humanities. Students will be trained to encode Lowell¿s letters in XML (Extensible Markup Language) following the guidelines of the Text Encoding Initiative. This course fulfills both the Engaged Learning Requirement and a Writing Intensive Requirement. This class satisfies the Engaged Learning requirement in Undergraduate Research.
Class Actions
Class Details
Instructor(s)
Melissa Bradshaw
Meets
MoWeFr 2:45PM - 3:35PM
Dates
01/13/2025 - 04/26/2025
Room
Mundelein Center - Room 611
Instruction Mode
In person
Campus
Lake Shore Campus
Location
Lake Shore Campus
Components
Lecture Required
Class Availability
Status
Open
Seats Taken
17
Seats Open
1
Class Capacity
18
Wait List Total
0
Wait List Capacity
0