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College Catalog 2011-2012 
    
College Catalog 2011-2012 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

ENGL 283 - The Crafts of Writing: Scriptwriting


This course will focus in a variety of ways on the development of skills for writing plays. The emphasis will be on written dialogue and dramatic action, with the aim of producing brief scripts. There will be extensive readings and discussion of published and unpublished plays in addition to regular writing assignments. The course may be conducted to some extent in workshop format; the emphasis will be on continuing to develop writing skills. Alternate years. Prerequisite(s):   taken at Macalester. (4 Credits)