
STEM Students: Unleash Your Creative Writing Skills
This 10-hour intensive course will explore effective creative writing strategies for students who tend to favor STEM subjects. We will read and evaluate writers who are also scientists. We will learn how to organize thoughts for clarity in writing, illuminate meaning with symbology, metaphor, wordplay and sensory descriptions, and how to revise and edit our own writing for optimal communication. By the end of the course, students will have written a poem in whatever style they choose and a personal essay.
Learning Objectives
By the end of this course, students will be able to:
- Write a personal essay
- Write a poem (In a style of your choosing)
- Engage confidently in writing strategies
- Brainstorming and organizing thoughts
- Employ wordplay, metaphors, sensory descriptions, and similes in their writing
Course Outcomes
By the end of this course, students will be able to:
- Have written a poem (in a style of their choosing)
- Understand how to organize and strategize their writing
- Have written a personal memoir essay (excellent preparation for college admission essays)
- Approach writing assignments with confidence
Instructor

Marci D., Ed.M.
Senior Academic Advisor, Writing
Instructor, College Counselor at Knovva Academy
Marci is an exceptional educator, writer, public speaker, and teacher with extensive experience researching all over the world. She has published bestselling books, both fiction and nonfiction, one of which reached #1 on Amazon. Marci has advised students on college essays for more than twenty years, with clients gaining admittance into their top three schools.
Related Skills
Brainstorming
Writing Skills
Editing
Revising
Poem Styles
Strategy and Organization
Our Schedule
Course
STEM Students: Unleash Your Creative Writing Skills 5 Lessons
120 minutes per lesson
Date and Time
Feb 12,- March 12, 2022
7:00 PM ET Saturday
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