Everything comes together in the Capstone. You will draft a complete story, narrative essay, or memoir of 8–15 pages. With the advice of your peer readers, you will revise, rewrite, and complete it. The skills you’ve learned of plotting, setting, physical description, characterization, and stylistic clarity and innovation will culminate in an original work of art all your own. We’ll discuss the steps that professional writers take to bring their work into the public world. Along the way you’ll learn the patient habits of revision that make up the writer’s life.
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58%
ont commencé une nouvelle carrière après avoir terminé ce cours
59%
ont bénéficié d'un avantage concret dans leur carrières grâce à ce cours
22%
a obtenu une augmentation de salaire ou une promotion
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Wesleyan University, founded in 1831, is a diverse, energetic liberal arts community where critical thinking and practical idealism go hand in hand. With our distinctive scholar-teacher culture, creative programming, and commitment to interdisciplinary learning, Wesleyan challenges students to explore new ideas and change the world. Our graduates go on to lead and innovate in a wide variety of industries, including government, business, entertainment, and science.
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Introduction to the Capstone and Gathering Materials
This week we lay out the agenda of the Capstone—seven weeks of structured work in which you’ll proceed from your accumulated notes and exercises to a finished piece: Your Story. We discuss the upcoming sequence of critiques of your fellow students’s work and you assemble the materials for your first draft.
24 minutes pour terminer
3 vidéos (Total 14 min), 1 lecture
3 vidéos
The Elements of Story3 min
Gathering Materials2 min
1 lecture
Specialization Promo Codes10 min
1 heure pour terminer
Composition Strategies
Having gathered all your scraps, notes, research, exercises into one place, you now get moving on the first draft. Through interviews with Jaimy Gordon and Amy Bloom, we discuss composition strategies—the different ways different writers have approached the blank page and how they get moving toward a coherent whole.
1 heure pour terminer
5 vidéos (Total 36 min)
5 vidéos
Interview with Amy Bloom, pt. 111 min
Interview with Amy Bloom, pt. 26 min
Interview with Jaimy Gordon15 min
Working on a First Draft1 min
1 heure pour terminer
Finishing the First Draft
Compose, compose, compose. This week is devoted completely to pushing through that crucial deadline: finishing your first draft by the end of the week. As you compose, you’ll get some advice from successful Wesleyan alumni writers who have gone from where you are to published books out there in the world.
1 heure pour terminer
6 vidéos (Total 27 min)
6 vidéos
Una LaMarche10 min
Lin-Manuel Miranda1 min
Ayelet Waldman5 min
Becky Albertalli6 min
First Draft2 min
1 heure pour terminer
Peer Review
Now that you’ve finished your first draft, it’s time to get ready for the first big peer review. This week we’ll talk about how to give good critique, and we’ll present a sample story and sample workshop. At the end of the week, you’ll write critiques of three of your fellow students’ work while they are busy critiquing yours.
1 heure pour terminer
4 vidéos (Total 37 min), 1 lecture
4 vidéos
Giving Good Critique3 min
Workshop Demonstration, pt. 112 min
Workshop Demonstration, pt. 219 min
Three Peer Reviews1 min
1 lecture
Manuscript for Workshop Demonstration10 min
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par TB8 mai 2020
I got so, so much out of this! It's not only helped me with my own writing, but it's helped me with being able to be a better editor, also. Enjoyed being able to read other writers' works, as well.
par AM24 oct. 2018
It was challenging and inspiring, one of the best courses I have taken. I took my writing to new places and learned quite a lot : ) Thank you so much for the opportunity and platform for learning.
par IB30 août 2017
Good opportunity to keep writing and get feedback. The only drawback is the quality of reviews you get on this site- everyone wants to BE reviewed, no one wants to do the reviewing!
par CD4 juin 2020
The assignments are varied and helpful. The feedback less so. And the IT department needs to re-tool how the feedback system works. Too many issues, too many problems.
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This Specialization covers elements of three major creative writing genres: short story, narrative essay, and memoir. You will master the techniques that good writers use to compose a bracing story, populated with memorable characters in an interesting setting, written in a fresh descriptive style. You will analyze and constructively evaluate peer writing. In the Capstone, you will draft, rewrite, and complete a substantial original story in the genre of your choosing.
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