Your style is as unique and distinctive as your face, your voice, except that you can choose it, you can can work on it, enhance it. In this course we will introduce aspiring writers to the art of putting pressure on written language. We will study the use of metaphor and imagery, and demonstrate how clarity, grace, and inventiveness in word choice are imperative to a story’s success. Writers will emerge with the revision skills essential to all writers of good stories and good prose.
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Resultados de carreira do aprendiz
26%
comecei uma nova carreira após concluir estes cursos
27%
consegui um benefício significativo de carreira com este curso
12%
recebi um aumento ou promoção
Certificados compartilháveis
Tenha o certificado após a conclusão
100% on-line
Comece imediatamente e aprenda em seu próprio cronograma.
Curso 4 de 5 no
Prazos flexíveis
Redefinir os prazos de acordo com sua programação.
Aprox. 8 horas para completar
Inglês
Legendas: Francês, Português (Brasil), Russo, Inglês, Espanhol
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Wesleyan University, founded in 1831, is a diverse, energetic liberal arts community where critical thinking and practical idealism go hand in hand. With our distinctive scholar-teacher culture, creative programming, and commitment to interdisciplinary learning, Wesleyan challenges students to explore new ideas and change the world. Our graduates go on to lead and innovate in a wide variety of industries, including government, business, entertainment, and science.
Programa - O que você aprenderá com este curso
2 horas para concluir
Meaning, Sense, and Clarity
Here in the first module we focus on putting pressure on your words so that they mean what you intend. We balance abstraction with the need to make good sense. And we discuss the first and last stylistic difficulty of any prose writer, being clear.
2 horas para concluir
9 vídeos (Total 56 mín.), 2 leituras, 1 teste
9 videos
Introduction to Meaning, Sense, and Clarity7min
The Pyramid of Language7min
Scatteration3min
Shop Talk with Amity Gaige14min
Excellent Word Choice at Work, pt. 14min
Excellent Word Choice at Work, pt. 22min
Assignment Overview5min
Feedback Expectations for the Specialization2min
2 leituras
A Note on Assignments10min
Promo Codes10min
2 horas para concluir
Writing with Nouns and Verbs
In the second module we look at the various parts of speech and how two of them—nouns and verbs—are the building blocks of good style and good narratives. By relying on nouns, we make the people, places, and things of the narrative world vivid. By relying on verbs we keep the story alive and in motion.
2 horas para concluir
6 vídeos (Total 32 mín.)
6 videos
Nouns and Verbs at Work, pt. 12min
Nouns and Verbs at Work, pt 2.4min
Close Reading of "Lord of Misrule"4min
A Conversation with Jaimy Gordon, Author of "Lord of Misrule"10min
Assignment Overview3min
2 horas para concluir
Economy
In the third module, having practiced putting words in, we learn to take them out. And why: for humor, for clarity, for cleanliness, and for that fleet quality of wit that makes a style irresistible.
2 horas para concluir
5 vídeos (Total 44 mín.), 1 leitura, 1 teste
5 videos
Surgery10min
Shop Talk with Brando Skyhorse10min
Visiting Writer: Sophie McManus13min
Assignment Overview3min
1 leituras
Sophie McManus's Informal List of Words and Phrases to Cut10min
2 horas para concluir
"No Ideas But in Things"
In the the final module of the course, we learn to balance the drive to get at ideas and feelings, with the need the story always has for concreteness, realness. We learn to express ideas in the form of physical things in a narrative world, to produce a style that speaks as much to the world of the senses as to the world of the mind.
2 horas para concluir
6 vídeos (Total 43 mín.)
6 videos
Respecting the Reader's Mind6min
Shop Talk with Amy Bloom12min
The Reader-Writer Arc8min
Close Reading of "Song of Solomon"5min
Assignment Overview3min
Avaliações
Principais avaliações do CREATIVE WRITING: THE CRAFT OF STYLE
por MS18 de Abr de 2016
Great class for the content I needed. I audited this class and benefited from the theory discussion and practical exercises. The class guided me to improve my writing style which was my ultimate goal.
por LR17 de Dez de 2018
Lessons were well done, good mix of teaching and illuminating discussion between accomplished writers. Exercises are creative and well thought out. Feedback from classmates is generally helpful.
por AT18 de Jan de 2017
Excellent course by Salvatore Scibona. The range of subjects covered was so wide and the practical tips given in the course are really helpful. Thanks a lot Salvatore, a well-designed course :)
por JS30 de Ago de 2020
This was the best and most useful to me of the four Wesleyan courses I've taken so far, all of which have been excellent and useful. This one really showed me a tool that I'd never understood.
Sobre Programa de cursos integrados Escrita criativa
This Specialization covers elements of three major creative writing genres: short story, narrative essay, and memoir. You will master the techniques that good writers use to compose a bracing story, populated with memorable characters in an interesting setting, written in a fresh descriptive style. You will analyze and constructively evaluate peer writing. In the Capstone, you will draft, rewrite, and complete a substantial original story in the genre of your choosing.
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