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Duration

5 hours

Total fee

Free

Mode of learning

Online

Difficulty level

Beginner

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Credential

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Memoir and Personal Essay: Managing Your Relationship with the Reader
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  • Shareable Certificate Earn a Certificate upon completion
  • 100% online Start instantly and learn at your own schedule.
  • Course 1 of 4 in the Memoir and Personal Essay: Write About Yourself Specialization
  • Flexible deadlines Reset deadlines in accordance to your schedule.
  • Beginner Level
  • Approx. 5 hours to complete
  • English Subtitles: Arabic, French, Portuguese (European), Italian, Vietnamese, German, Russian, English, Spanish
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  • The blank page can be the most daunting obstacle in writing. In this course, aspiring writers will assemble a ?starter kit? for approaching the blank page by developing constructive ways to think about the writing process as a whole. While subsequent courses in this series will focus on the mechanics of good writing, this course offers ways to think about the writer?s relationship to her material, and ultimately develop a writing style that is uniquely her own.

Memoir and Personal Essay: Managing Your Relationship with the Reader
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Curriculum

The Art of the Frame: Giving Context to Memories

Nothing is Obvious

Consider Your Strategy

The Uses of Research

From the Generative Stage to the Revision Stage

Avatar: The Messenger is the Message

Create an Avatar

Show Your True Selves

How Much of a Difference Can It Make?

Diegesis and the Extradiagetic Frame: Two Trains Running

Diageses and the "Voiceover" Frame

Zoom In, Pan Out

Make the Move: Explicit and Implicit

The Frame Inspires Trust

Profiling: Our Relationship to the People in Our Work

And Yet, We Need the Eggs

Talking About Others

Conducting Family Interviews

Quote, Summarize, Paraphrase

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