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Business 173: Revision: Writing and Rewriting Fiction

• Average Time Commitment per Week: 3-5 hours
  
  
• Time to Complete Course: 6 Weeks
  
  
• Difficulty (1-5): 4
  
  
• Prerequisite: One completed novel or short story
  
  
• Course Description: A practical approach to the process of editing and revising, starting with a discussion on why revision is necessary. Then we’ll go through revising openings, looking for the essential, revising endings, and revising for style and readability.
  
  
• Required Resources (texts, etc.): Textbook: Revision, by David Michael Kaplan
  
  
  • Lesson 1: Introduction
  • Lesson 2: Revising Openings
  • Lesson 3: Cutting the Non-Essential
  • Lesson 4: Adding What’s Essential, and Rearranging the Plot
  • Lesson 5: Revising Endings
  • Lesson 6: Revising Your Prose
    
    
• Classroom A
• Classroom B

Course developed by: Sonja Herbert

Facilitated by: Sonja Herbert and Peer Group