Wayne Harrison
Instructor
Oregon State University
Moreland 352
2550 SW Jefferson Way
Corvallis,
OR
97331 USA
Tel:
541-737-1662
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Credentials
- M.F.A. - University of Iowa Writers' Workshop
- B.A. - University of New Haven
- Summa Cum Laude
Research
Wayne Harrison received an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. His fiction has appeared in Best American Short Stories 2010, The Atlantic, Narrative Magazine, McSweeney’s, Ploughshares, Crazyhorse, The Sun, FiveChapters, New Letters, Other Voices and other magazines, and has been featured on NPR’s All Things Considered. One story was Notable in Best American 2009 and one received special mention in Pushcart Prizes 2012. His short story collection Wrench was a finalist for the Serena McDonald Kennedy Award, the Spokane Prize and the Iowa Short Fiction Award. He has won a Michener/ Copernicus fellowship, an Oregon Literary fellowship and a Fishtrap Writing Fellowship. His book reviews have been published in The San Francisco Chronicle and The Miami Herald.
Course Information
This course aims to increase your textual power by increasing your ability to read, think, and write about ideas and issues in academic and civic conversations. To do this, we will consider what “they say” and what “you say” in response, as well as why (so what? who cares?). You will analyze viewpoints (with a close look at how different authors and stakeholders are situated) and study the elements that go into crafting powerful written and visual arguments in both public and academic realms. Reading contemporary and classic arguments from the textbook and the New York Times provides a sense of our rhetorical tradition over time. You will be responsible for analytical reading, thinking, discussing, researching, and writing. Instructor conferences and peer review as well as consultation with the Writing Center will guide you through various drafts. This classroom is a learning community, so we will show respect for the ideas of all individuals.
In this fiction writing workshop, students motivated to advance their creative writing skills will build upon a working knowledge of the elements of a fiction writer’s craft, including point of view, dialogue, imagery and setting, character development, voice, and dramatic structure developed in WR 224. Students will study the work of major contemporary authors to advance their own writing. Exercises allow students to develop the beginning, middle, and end of stories, to work with imagery, and to listen for their own voice and style. In addition to these exercises, students write two complete short stories and revise one.
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