关于此课程： 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.
制作方： 卫斯连大学
教学方： Salvatore Scibona, Frank B. Weeks Visiting Professor of English
| 基本信息 | 课程 4（共 5 门，创意写作 Specialization ） |
| 承诺学习时间 | 4 weeks of study, 2-4 hours/week |
| 语言 | English |
| 如何通过 | 通过所有计分作业以完成课程。 |
| 用户评分 |
授课大纲
第 1 周
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.
9 视频, 2 阅读材料
- 视频: Introduction to Style
- 视频: Introduction to Meaning, Sense, and Clarity
- 视频: The Pyramid of Language
- 视频: Scatteration
- 视频: Shop Talk with Amity Gaige
- 视频: Excellent Word Choice at Work, pt. 1
- Discussion Prompt: Fill in the Blank
- 视频: Excellent Word Choice at Work, pt. 2
- 视频: Assignment Overview
- Reading: A Note on Assignments
- 视频: Feedback Expectations for the Specialization
- Reading: Promo Codes
已评分: Sensuous Description
第 2 周
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.
6 视频
- 视频: Introduction to Writing with Nouns and Verbs
- 视频: Nouns and Verbs at Work, pt. 1
- Discussion Prompt: Fill in the Blank
- 视频: Nouns and Verbs at Work, pt 2.
- 视频: Close Reading of "Lord of Misrule"
- 视频: A Conversation with Jaimy Gordon, Author of "Lord of Misrule"
- 视频: Assignment Overview
已评分: Very Short Narrative
第 3 周
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.
5 视频, 1 阅读材料
- 视频: Introduction to Economy
- 视频: Surgery
- 视频: Shop Talk with Brando Skyhorse
- 视频: Visiting Writer: Sophie McManus
- Reading: Sophie McManus's Informal List of Words and Phrases to Cut
- 视频: Assignment Overview
已评分: Cut It Out
第 4 周
"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.
6 视频
- 视频: An Introduction to Things
- 视频: Respecting the Reader's Mind
- 视频: Shop Talk with Amy Bloom
- 视频: The Reader-Writer Arc
- 视频: Close Reading of "Song of Solomon"
- 视频: Assignment Overview
已评分: Concrete Style Infused with Thought and Feeling
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卫斯连大学
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评分和审阅
This course set me on the path to writing a story that I can be proud of.
Salvatore Scibona is an excellent teacher. I learned a lot from this course. My only complain is that for this particular module in the specialisation as it's about language and language style, the staff should apply a language (English) level requirement, because some students' writings are so painful to read--full of error spellings, jumbled sentences and wrong use of words.
You have awaken my passions of writing. Your assignments helped me to improve. Could you please send me your email contact for further chat and details.
Many thanks.
KS
It was kind of fast and some tasks were really difficult compared to the other courses but it was a good learning experience.