Advanced Writing for Editing and Publishing
Section 65445
- Note: : For a D-Clearance application or more information, email Professor Sarah Mesle at smesle@usc.edu.usc.edu. Designed for students who imagine careers in writing, editing, and publishing, these sections approach the craft of writing through the real-world questions that emerge when moving the ideas of an author into successful publication. While students taking this class will develop the writing skills that all Writ 340 courses foster awareness of audience, genre, revision, and evidence of these sections will develop these skills through situations faced by editors. Students will produce their own critical writing, and they will also produce writing unique to editors: solicitations, readers reports, publishing memos, etc. Students will have the opportunity to evaluate real pitches and questions as well as to produce their own. This class is framed for all students hoping to increase their practical knowledge of writing in the world. Students from all disciplines are welcome in the class, and should expect a classroom experience that focuses on rigorous and fine-grained attention to the aesthetics of language, rhetoric, and audience. Thus, this class will be of help for both students in editorial programs as well as those in non-humanities majors who hope to write for broader audiences.
- Session Dates (session code 001)
- First day of classes:
- Monday, January 9, 2023
- Last day to add:
- Friday, January 27, 2023
- Last day to change to Pass/No Pass:
- Friday, January 27, 2023
- Last day to drop without a mark of "W" and receive a refund:
- Friday, January 27, 2023
- Last day to withdraw without a “W” on transcript or change pass/no pass to letter grade:
- Friday, February 24, 2023
- Last day to drop with a mark of "W":
- Friday, April 7, 2023
- Last day of classes:
- Friday, April 28, 2023
- End of session:
- Wednesday, May 10, 2023