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Курс от Wesleyan University
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Creative Writing: The Craft of Style
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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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4 модулей · 35 учебных материалов
01Meaning, Sense, and Clarity13 материалов
The Pyramid of Language
The Pyramid of LanguageВидеоScatteration
ScatterationВидеоShop Talk with Amity Gaige
Shop Talk with Amity GaigeВидео02Writing with Nouns and Verbs8 материалов
Introduction to Writing with Nouns and Verbs
Introduction to Writing with Nouns and VerbsВидеоNouns and Verbs at Work
Nouns and Verbs at Work, pt. 1ВидеоFill in the BlankОбсуждениеNouns and Verbs at Work, pt 2.ВидеоClose Reading of "Lord of Misrule"
Close Reading of "Lord of Misrule"Видео03Economy7 материалов
Introduction to Economy
Introduction to EconomyВидеоSurgery
SurgeryВидеоShop Talk with Brando Skyhorse
Shop Talk with Brando SkyhorseВидеоVisiting Writer: Sophie McManus
Visiting Writer: Sophie McManusВидеоSophie McManus's Informal List of Words and Phrases to CutЧтение04"No Ideas But in Things"7 материалов
Recap and Introduction
An Introduction to ThingsВидеоRespecting the Reader's Mind
Respecting the Reader's MindВидеоShop Talk with Amy Bloom
Shop Talk with Amy BloomВидеоThe Reader-Writer Arc
The Reader-Writer ArcВидеоSong of Solomon
Close Reading of "Song of Solomon"ВидеоУчитесь у экспертов
Salvatore Scibona
Frank B. Weeks Visiting Professor of English