Writing is a social act. Through writing we preserve or change the attitudes and beliefs of others, build and maintain relationships, and persuade others to take specific actions. To communicate effectively in the workplace, it is essential to read contexts, think critically, and write clearly. This course focuses on the rhetorical nature of organizational communication and will help you develop a better understanding of audience, argument, convention, and expression. Your work in this course will help prepare you to engage with a wide range of institutions; however, you are encouraged to use coursework to develop a better understanding of workplaces within your major.
Kristin Griffin
Instructor
Oregon State University
Moreland 348
2550 SW Jefferson Way
Corvallis,
OR
97331 USA
Tel:
541-737-1660
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Research
Kristin Griffin teaches courses in creative writing and composition. Her novel-in-progress was a semi-finalist for the Summer Literary Seminars’ Graywolf Prize in 2012 and was awarded the Paul Sidwell Memorial Prize from Purdue University in 2011. She was also the recipient of a scholarship to the Key West Literary Seminar that year. Her work has been published in Streetlight Magazine and editorial experience includes time at America’s Test Kitchen, Da Capo Lifelong Press and Pinhead Productions, where Bill Griffith’s comic strip Zippy the Pinhead is produced. She holds an MFA in Fiction from Purdue University and a BA in English from Connecticut College.
Course Information
Available Fall Term
WR 224 is an introduction to the study and practice of fiction writing. Reading deeply in the genre, students will develop the vocabulary to respond to the work of established, contemporary writers in terms of craft and technique. This reading, discussions in class and various writing exercises will give students the tools they need to compose their own pieces of short fiction and respond thoughtfully to the work of their peers.
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