Advanced Writing for Editing and Publishing
Section 65205
- Note: For a D-Clearance application, 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, August 26, 2024
- Last day to add:
- Friday, September 13, 2024
- Last day to change to Pass/No Pass:
- Friday, September 13, 2024
- Last day to drop without a mark of "W" and receive a refund:
- Friday, September 13, 2024
- Last day to withdraw without a “W” on transcript or change pass/no pass to letter grade:
- Friday, October 11, 2024
- Last day to drop with a mark of "W":
- Friday, November 15, 2024
- Last day of classes:
- Friday, December 6, 2024
- End of session:
- Wednesday, December 18, 2024