Getting Started in Creative Writing (Online) offered by Oxford University
- Public University
1 Campus- Estd. 1096
Getting Started in Creative Writing (Online) at Oxford University Overview
Duration | 10 weeks |
Total fee | ₹43,600 |
Mode of learning | Online |
Course Level | UG Certificate |
Getting Started in Creative Writing (Online) at Oxford University Highlights
- Earn a certificate of completion from Oxford university
Getting Started in Creative Writing (Online) at Oxford University Course details
- How to use these aspects of technical expertise with increased skill and confidence
- Ability to recognize and name key features in literature
- Knowledge of what effects these features produce and how to undertake their use
- Key features in a fictional work
- Increased confidence in their own use of such features as enhancements to the development of an individual 'voice' in creative writing
- This course gives avid readers the skills necessary to turn a love of the written word into a practical experience
- Introduces the key characteristics of creative writing, and students are supported with stage-by-stage guidance as they assimilate and put into practice a range of critical and creative methods
- In addition to tutor feedback on the course assignments, participants will be encouraged to discuss one another's writing in the course forums, and will be given guidance on offering constructive and useful criticism
- This course leads students step-by-step through the essentials of the craft -including characterization, plotting, description, dialogue and editing -towards an enhanced understanding of how novels and stories are written
- There are also individual sessions on special topics -such as constructing an effective opening sequence, using imagery creatively, and working with experimental or other distinctive genres -and the emphasis throughout is upon developing an individual voice and a confident style while working in a wholly supportive environment
- This course aims to provide students with insight into the major aspects affecting creative writing, and enable them to use these features confidently in their own writing
Getting Started in Creative Writing (Online) at Oxford University Curriculum
Getting Started
Getting acquainted with one another and the course
Autobiographical input
Working with notes
Practising discussion and critique of fiction-writing
Voice
Developing an individual emphasis
pace and style
Descriptive Writing
Scene-making: Sharpening the senses
Fashioning a world
Point-of-view
Who tells the story? Owns the story?
Making choices about 1st, 2nd and 3rd person narrative
Character
Constructing individuals
Back-stories
Conflict
Dialogue
Writing the authentic, the important and the plausible simultaneously
Plot and Momentum
Patterns of Story
From story to plot
Subplots
Genre and Length
Choices that shape the stories we read
What we expect
How we may differ
Theme
What kind of a story will you tell?
Re-writing and Editing
Finishing, polishing, re-making, re-telling, expanding and cutting
Getting Started in Creative Writing (Online) at Oxford University Faculty details
Getting Started in Creative Writing (Online) at Oxford University Entry Requirements
- Prerequisite: Familiar with using a computer for purposes such as sending email and searching the Internet
- Yes
- In countries where the normal examinations have been cancelled, university will expect the conditions of student's offer to be met by the alternative assessment put in place by qualifications' regulators.
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