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Writing a Personal Essay
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Duration

7 hours

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Total fee

Free

Mode of learning

Online

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Writing a Personal Essay
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Highlights

  • Shareable Certificate Earn a Certificate upon completion
  • 100% online Start instantly and learn at your own schedule.
  • Course 3 of 4 in the Memoir and Personal Essay: Write About Yourself Specialization
  • Flexible deadlines Reset deadlines in accordance to your schedule.
  • Approx. 7 hours to complete
  • English Subtitles: French, Portuguese (European), Russian, English, Spanish
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Writing a Personal Essay
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  • 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 a Personal Essay
 at 
Coursera 
Curriculum

How to Begin... and How to Continue

Open Your Eyes

Five Nouns

Open the Window

Foibles, Fallibilities, and Flaws

A Conversation with Said Sayrafiezadeh

How Not to Fail

Step by Step

Out of the Ditch

Building As You Go

A Little Distance

A Conversation with Dani Shapiro

The Truth of the Story Lies in the Details

The Intimate and the Everyday

What Are Facts For?

In the Story

A Conversation with Chandra Prasad

Writing to be Read

Begin in the Middle

Drowning in Rhinestones

White Space

A Conversation with Ariel Levy

Building the House

Writing a Personal Essay
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Admission Process

    Important Dates

    May 25, 2024
    Course Commencement Date

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