- Creativity
- Writing
- Non-fiction Writing
- Storytelling
- Essay Writing
- English Language
- Creative Writing
- memoir
Memoir and Personal Essay: Write About Yourself 특화 과정
Write Your Story with Confidence. Learn from four published memoirists and essayists the tools and tricks to write your story
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Through 16 writing assignments across the four courses, and from reading the work of others, learners will develop a toolset to put pen to paper (or keys to screen) and write the story of their life. You will collect a portfolio of work that you can use as components of your memoir or essay.
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강좌 수강
Coursera 특화 과정은 한 가지 기술을 완벽하게 습득하는 데 도움이 되는 일련의 강좌입니다. 시작하려면 특화 과정에 직접 등록하거나 강좌를 둘러보고 원하는 강좌를 선택하세요. 특화 과정에 속하는 강좌에 등록하면 해당 특화 과정 전체에 자동으로 등록됩니다. 단 하나의 강좌만 수료할 수도 있으며, 학습을 일시 중지하거나 언제든 구독을 종료할 수 있습니다. 학습자 대시보드를 방문하여 강좌 등록 상태와 진도를 추적해 보세요.
실습 프로젝트
모든 특화 과정에는 실습 프로젝트가 포함되어 있습니다. 특화 과정을 완료하고 수료증을 받으려면 프로젝트를 성공적으로 마쳐야 합니다. 특화 과정에 별도의 실습 프로젝트 강좌가 포함되어 있는 경우, 다른 모든 강좌를 완료해야 프로젝트 강좌를 시작할 수 있습니다.
수료증 취득
모든 강좌를 마치고 실습 프로젝트를 완료하면 취업할 때나 전문가 네트워크에 진입할 때 제시할 수 있는 수료증을 취득할 수 있습니다.

이 전문 분야에는 4개의 강좌가 있습니다.
Memoir and Personal Essay: Managing Your Relationship with the Reader
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.
Writing in First Person Point of View
If you have always wanted to tell your own story—in a memoir, first-person essay, or any other form of autobiographical non-fiction—but felt you lacked the tools or the framework, this is the class for you. We will learn how successful first-person writing is structured to offer the reader a sense of propulsive motion, and is guided by a narrator who is deliberately crafted. We will explore the ways in which language can be used to create tone, so that the emotional freight of your words is as potent as the storytelling. And crucially, we will consider the writer's responsibility to the reader: the importance of being a guide who includes the reader in the sensory, emotional, and intellectual experience you mean to share through your writing.
Writing a Personal Essay
This class is the chance to create your personal essay or extend into a full memoir -- from planning and structure to bold narrative brushstrokes to the layering of significant detail. You will develop the opportunity to find your voice and see it come alive, amplified and improved, on the page. This is the chance to tell your story in a way that invites readers in; your story, written to be read. The memoir and personal essay are two of the best-selling and most universally acclaimed genres in the world of modern creative writing. Welcome to your story.
Writing Stories About Ourselves
In this course, creative nonfiction writers will explore traditional storytelling methods, especially those which overlap between fiction and memoir. By looking at examples from a wide range of genres, including film, song, painting—even the theme music for Jaws!—we’ll practice exercising the creative muscle that sees ourselves as characters and the experiences we’ve had as tales. We’ll focus on critical elements, like how to begin a story, what makes for worthy content, the essential use of detail, the strengths and limits of dialogue, the power of the white space. The ultimate goal is for us to become aware of an “audience” when we write, so that the documentation of our lives will begin to resemble a “performance” crafted onto paper rather than a private entry in a journal.
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