55-5304 Dialects and Fiction Writing

Dialect speech and dialect writing have richly contributed to the breadth, variety, and authenticity of American and English literature. This course provides students with informed training in listening with a good ear and distinguishing between eye dialect and dialect is both accurately and artistically rendered, within an understanding of the tradition of dialect writing in fiction. Students keep a journal and research the ways in which writers employ dialect in their fiction as well as what they have to say about such uses, while also developing a facility with dialect in their own fiction writing.

3 Credits
Requisites COREQUISITES: 55-5101 Fiction Writing I or 55-6101 Fiction Writing I or 55-5102 Fiction Writing II or 55-6102 Fiction Writing II or 55-5104 Prose Forms or 55-5105 Advanced Prose Forms or

55-5106 Fiction Writing: Advanced

or 55-6110 Thesis Development or 55-4101 Fiction Writing I or 55-1101 Fiction Writing I