4/8-4/22: ****Do You Want to Write? Learn from the Pros at UCLA Extension **** ((UCLA Ext. Online))
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Date: 2008-04-08, 4:21PM PDT
Want to take a class but don’t have a flexible schedule?
Try a 10-week online writing course through UCLA Extension Writers’ Program (http://www.uclaextension.edu/writers). The Writers’ Program offers online courses year-round and enrolls students from all over the globe! Our instructors are all working writers who are currently publishing in their fields. And Online learning is flexible—you can log in from any computer that has internet access!
If you have admired writers like David Sedaris, Joan Didion, and Annie Dillard, and want to take a real life story and make it into a piece of polished prose, the course “Writing the Personal Essay (Online)” may be just the thing to start your writing career! Full course details below.
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Writing the Personal Essay (Online)
English X 401.30 3 units
Course Fee: $525
Instruction Dates: April 16-June 18
Registration # T7511
The personal essay continues to thrive as a genre and it affirms that individual experience deserves to be articulated, explored, and celebrated. This course begins by studying, for inspiration and instruction, methods used by the best personal essayists, then focuses on the students' own personal pieces. Useful "toolbox" strategies, such as active voice, sentence structure and variety, the use of metaphor, and other figures of speech are explored as participants work on drafts and revisions of their essays. No prior writing experience is necessary; all students interested in learning how to frame their personal experiences into artful prose are welcome. Enrollment limited to 15 students. $55 nonrefundable.
Instructor: Rochelle Shapiro , MA, writer and editor whose work has appeared in Newsweek and The New York Times, among other publications. Ms. Shapiro's novel Miriam the Medium (Simon and Schuster) was nominated for the Harold U. Ribelow Award in fiction, and is selling in Holland, Belgium, and the United Kingdom. Her essay, "Eulogy for My Mother," won the Branden Memorial Award.
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To Enroll: Go to http://www.uclaextension.edu. In the search field, type the instructor’s last name. This will take you to a link to the class.
Have Questions? Contact an advisor by email at writers@uclaextension.edu or by phone at (310) 825-9415.
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