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Designing Effective Writing Assignments The assignment helps writers imagine a sense of purpose for writing. When people write beyond school, their writing is driven by a need to communicate in order to evoke a specific response or to elicit a particular action or to otherwise convince an audience in some way. Therefore, it is helpful to think of designing assignments that help writers imagine writing in order to accomplish a specific aim. (Likewise, it is less useful to assign a random mode of

Writing Effective Thesis StatementsA good thesis statement can be the difference between making an argument about something, and simply re-stating what someone else has already said. In your thesis statement, you want to make a claim that you will continue to develop throughout the paper. It should represent your own ideas–perhaps in response to something someone else has said–but ultimately, it is your argument. As such, a good thesis statement should have 3 main traits. A good thesis: Can be

to ePass Save Add Edit Remove Back New Delete Master of Fine Arts: Rainier Writing Workshop Academic Programs all programs program website Master of Fine Arts: Rainier Writing Workshop Graduate College of Liberal Studies Rainier Writing Workshop Meet the Professors Apply Now About The Master of Arts in Creative Writing is a three-year, four-residency program with emphasis in fiction, nonfiction, poetry. Students participate in a 10-day summer residency on campus, and work remotely one-on-one with

Celebration of the 10th Anniversary of the Rainier Writing Workshop MFA at PLU Tuesday, February 25, 2014 “The Writer’s Story,” 3:30PM, Garfield Book Company Reading, 7:00PM, Scandinavian Cultural Center, Anderson University Center Stan Sanvel Rubin is founding director of the Rainier Writing Workshop MFA program at PLU. His third full-length collection, Hidden Sequel, won the Barrow Street Book Prize and was a Small Press Distribution bestseller. A fourth, There. Here., will be published in

Innovation. Challenge. Community.What are your goals as a student and maker of literature, as an artist contributing to the conversation about the urgent matters of our time? What is the work you want to do, the work that is specific to your experience, talent, and imagination? Now celebrating over 19 years of accomplishment, the Rainier Writing Workshop has been helping writers to answer those questions, and to generate new, even deeper questions about the writer’s aspirations. Our MFA is an

Tips for Designing a Writing Syllabus Using Keywords to Reflect Writing Pedagogy Writing-related words and references to a writing handbook highlighted on a syllabus help students recognize the writing and learning skills the course will address. Here are possible words/phrases that an instructor might place on a writing syllabus: Thesis & Focus; Developing & Organizing Ideas; Audience & Purpose; Introductory Strategies; Concluding Strategies; Style; Transitions; Claims, Reasons, & Evidence