Teaching Texts and Forms
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Teaching Texts and Forms at Coursera Overview
Duration | 21 hours |
Total fee | Free |
Mode of learning | Online |
Official Website | Explore Free Course  |
Credential | Certificate |
Teaching Texts and Forms at Coursera Highlights
- Reset deadlines in accordance to your schedule.
- Earn a Certificate upon completion
- Start instantly and learn at your own schedule.
- Course 3 of 5 in the Teaching Writing Specialization.
Teaching Texts and Forms at Coursera Course details
- This course will examine some of those more comprehensive writing tasks: personal essays; argument, analysis and other forms of transactional writing; and creative writing.
- Learners will also identify strategies for supporting the reading/writing connection and practical assignments for engaging students in writing around texts.
Teaching Texts and Forms at Coursera Curriculum
Teaching Personal Writing
Teaching Writing Specialization Welcome Video
Teaching Texts and Forms Course Welcome Video
Responding to Your Fellow Learners
Personal Writing Welcome Video
Characteristics of Personal Writing
Benefits of Personal Writing
"Fish Cheeks": Mentor Text for the Personal Essay
Personal Writing Prompts
"Fish Cheeks," by Amy Tan
"Superman and Me," by Sherman Alexie
Characteristics of Personal Writing
The Reading/Writing Connection
Reading Like a Writer Welcome Video
What is "Reading Like a Writer"?
Introduction to "Story in Three Parts"
"Tickits" and Teaching Genre Awareness
Rhetorical Analysis of a Text
Observing a Poem
Story in Three Parts
Story in One Part
"Tickits"
I Want a Wife
My Papa's Waltz
Reading Like a Writer
Genre Awareness
Rhetorical Analysis
Teaching Argument, Analysis and Transactional Writing
Transactional Writing Welcome Video
What is Transactional Writing?
Writing to Inform
Writing to Instruct
An Audience of (more than) One
Types of Argument
Open-Minded Inquiry
What is Analysis?
Analyzing an Ad
Writing to Instruct: The PBJ Example
Authenticity in Writing Prompts
Three Appeals of Argument Podcast
The Toulmin Method of Argument Podcast
Prompt for Argument Writing
Beyond the Five-Paragraph Essay
Transactional Writing
Types and Methods of Argument
Teaching Creative Writing
Creative Writing Welcome Video
What is the Creative Process?
The Visual Metaphor: A Creative Exercise
Why Creative Writing?
Assessing Creative Writing
An Introduction to Fiction
An Introduction to Fiction, Part 2
Point of View in Fiction
What is Poetry?
The Speaker, or "Presence," in a Poem
A Plea for Creative Writing in the Schools
Assessing Creative Writing is Hard
Birds on a Wire
Story from a First Line Exercise
A Sample Story
Character Sketching
Poem Sketching
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