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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字幕：阿拉伯語（Arabic）, 法語（French）, （歐洲人講的）葡萄牙語, 意大利語, 越南語, 德語（German）, 俄語（Russian）, 英語（English）, 西班牙語（Spanish）, 匈牙利語
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第 4 門課程（共 5 門）
完成時間大約為8 小時
英語（English）
字幕：阿拉伯語（Arabic）, 法語（French）, （歐洲人講的）葡萄牙語, 意大利語, 越南語, 德語（German）, 俄語（Russian）, 英語（English）, 西班牙語（Spanish）, 匈牙利語
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卫斯连大学
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.
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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.
完成時間為 2 小時
9 個視頻 （總計 56 分鐘）, 2 個閱讀材料, 1 個測驗
完成時間為 2 小時
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.
完成時間為 2 小時
6 個視頻 （總計 32 分鐘）
完成時間為 2 小時
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.
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5 個視頻 （總計 44 分鐘）, 1 個閱讀材料, 1 個測驗
完成時間為 2 小時
"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.
完成時間為 2 小時
6 個視頻 （總計 43 分鐘）
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來自CREATIVE WRITING: THE CRAFT OF STYLE的熱門評論
由 AM 提供2021年1月12日
I enjoyed the course. There are some drawbacks... the peer reviews and discussion are not useful but the videos have a lot of good info and the writing exercises are fun and good practice.
由 CZ 提供2018年3月26日
This course was excellent. I was challenged by the writing assignments and the constraints helped me to think about things in a different way. Great course- highly recommended.
由 NB 提供2016年10月24日
This has been a great opportunity for me to force the work and get something done. I haven't been that happy with some of what I've written, but I like the challenge of meeting a deadline.
由 SS 提供2020年10月18日
Some of the assignments were more challenging for me than those in the other three courses, but this wasn’t a bad thing. I felt more stretched and that was what I needed. Thank you!
關於 创意写作 專項課程
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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