Composing WinnipegHow has our city has been written so far? How does its culture(s) and geography function as a confrontation between language, cultures of poverty and power, and complex institutional decision-making? Rather than ignoring or mythologizing inequities -- endorsing uncomfortable silences and uneasy confrontations as our cityspeak -- we consider some material realities and social myths that shape our thinking about Winnipeg centre and neighbourhoods: who are we, what do we do, who moves in and out? From this interaction of real and imagined city, we compose a third space that signifies what the city can be.
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Professional Style & EditingIn this course, we explore some of the important choices you make to write with accuracy, clarity, and energy and to develop a voice suited to your material and readership. To achieve accuracy and clarity, you need to be aware of standard usage expectations and how to emphasize and connect the important characters and actions in your sentences. You also need to make decisions about word choice and placement and about punctuation. To engage readers, you need to consider matters of sentence concision, shape, variety, and audience appeal.
This course encourages you to extend your stylistic repertoire by introducing you to principles to guide revision and by offering you practice in crafting a range of voices, from colloquial to formal. Through reading and practice, you will become familiar with the range of features that play out in particular levels of discourse. Writing in different voices will help you expand your sentence repertoire, both by imitating and creating a variety of sentence types and by experimenting with tropes and schemes. |
