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Writing Skill (3) (Creative Writing)

Course Description: This course aims to equip students with creative writing skills that enable them to express their creative ideas and talents clearly and eloquently.

Credits: 2

Prerequisites: ARAB108

Objectives of the course :

To equip the student with creative writing skills that enable them to record their ideas and creative talents in a semantically clear and grammatically sound manner.

Course outputs :

Knowledge and understanding:

The student should mention areas of creative writing.
The student should be familiar with the essay, short reflection, speech, lecture, play, novel, short story, poetic creation, diary, recollections, and memoirs.
The student will summarize the elements of modern technologies in creative writing.
Skills
The student compares writing styles.
That the student writes a short story, essay, novel, anecdote, speech, or play.
For the student to analyze the play into its elements.
To judge a student's maturity or lack thereof based on a short story.
The student should develop the paragraph into an essay.
The student explains the role of the introduction, body, and conclusion in constructing an essay and reports.
The student plans to write a novel.

Values, autonomy and responsibility:

The student compares writing styles.
That the student writes a short story, essay, novel, anecdote, speech, or play.
For the student to analyze the play into its elements.
To judge a student's maturity or lack thereof based on a short story.
The student should develop the paragraph into an essay.
The student explains the role of the introduction, body, and conclusion in constructing an essay and reports.

Communication skills, IT skills, and numerical skills

The student should search for computer programs to benefit from in their field of specialization. .
Student-led discussion on a creative writing topic
The student should clarify the differences between creative writing and functional writing.
For a student to ask their classmates about the concept of poetic creativity, its elements, and its components.
For a student to criticize an article, novel, or speech that goes against the rules they have studied.
The student calculates the minimum number of paragraphs the essay should have.

Additional information:

References
1 – Required main textbook(s):

1 – Writing Editing by Dr. Hamad Attia et al. .

2 - Literary Editing by Dr. Hussein Ali Mohamed. .

3 – Common Student Errors in Reading and Writing Dr. Mahmoud Ismail Ammar.

4 – Arabic Writing: Principles and Arts, by Dr. Muhammad Mahmoud Fijal and others. .

Last updated: 2026-05-03