In this course, students have an opportunity to sharpen their writing skills, develop their writing style, and examine strategies for publishing their work. They explore writers’ work habits, study elements of grammar and style, analyze writing in professional journals, and participate in an ongoing writers’ workshop during which they share and evaluate drafts of their own and others’ writing. By the end of the course they are expected to complete publishable drafts of a book review and a nonfiction manuscript, each targeted to a professional journal.