Professional Writing Major

juillet
Tue, 25 Aug 2015 05:13:33 +0000

Some colleges just have a minor in writing, no preface. My college had a minor in writing, and had several different tracks you could pick - creative, professional, or technical. So you can check that out. If your college doesn’t have a minor in writing, one option is to select whichever one seems to appeal to you most. You seem most interested in professional writing, so a creative writing minor might not help you much. However, many English minors (and majors) are more focused on literature than writing. So it depends on the school. An alternative is simply to take some writing-oriented classes instead of minoring; this is especially important if your college’s English minor is mostly literature.

Sure, there are plenty of public universities with reputations for good writing programs - University of Iowa, University of Michigan, University of Virginia, University of Texas, Florida State, UC-Irvine. However, these programs are typically known for their creative writing programs, mostly in literary fiction-type writing. I’m not sure whether they have great professional writing programs. And of course, the schools well-known for journalism are quite different.