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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12%
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英語（English）
字幕：法語（French）, 巴西葡萄牙語, 俄語（Russian）, 英語（English）, 西班牙語（Spanish）
學生職業成果
35%
完成這些課程後已開始新的職業生涯
35%
通過此課程獲得實實在在的工作福利
12%
加薪或升職
可分享的證書
完成後獲得證書
100% 在線
立即開始，按照自己的計劃學習。
第 4 門課程（共 5 門）
可靈活調整截止日期
根據您的日程表重置截止日期。
完成時間大約為8 小時
英語（English）
字幕：法語（French）, 巴西葡萄牙語, 俄語（Russian）, 英語（English）, 西班牙語（Spanish）
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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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完成時間為 2 小時
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
9 個視頻
Introduction to Meaning, Sense, and Clarity7分鐘
The Pyramid of Language7分鐘
Scatteration3分鐘
Shop Talk with Amity Gaige14分鐘
Excellent Word Choice at Work, pt. 14分鐘
Excellent Word Choice at Work, pt. 22分鐘
Assignment Overview5分鐘
Feedback Expectations for the Specialization2分鐘
2 個閱讀材料
A Note on Assignments10分鐘
Promo Codes10分鐘
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）
6 個視頻
Nouns and Verbs at Work, pt. 12分鐘
Nouns and Verbs at Work, pt 2.4分鐘
Close Reading of "Lord of Misrule"4分鐘
A Conversation with Jaimy Gordon, Author of "Lord of Misrule"10分鐘
Assignment Overview3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.
完成時間為 2 小時
5 個視頻 （總計 44 分鐘）, 1 個閱讀材料, 1 個測驗
5 個視頻
Surgery10分鐘
Shop Talk with Brando Skyhorse10分鐘
Visiting Writer: Sophie McManus13分鐘
Assignment Overview3分鐘
1 個閱讀材料
Sophie McManus's Informal List of Words and Phrases to Cut10分鐘
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）
6 個視頻
Respecting the Reader's Mind6分鐘
Shop Talk with Amy Bloom12分鐘
The Reader-Writer Arc8分鐘
Close Reading of "Song of Solomon"5分鐘
Assignment Overview3分鐘
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來自CREATIVE WRITING: THE CRAFT OF STYLE的熱門評論
由 MS 提供2016年4月18日
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.
由 LR 提供2018年12月17日
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.
由 AT 提供2017年1月18日
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 :)
由 JS 提供2020年8月30日
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.
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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