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所在平台: Coursera |
课程主页: https://www.coursera.org/learn/story-writing-project
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课程名称：项目总结：你的故事 课程概述：在项目总结中，所有学习的内容都将汇聚在一起。你将撰写一篇完整的故事、叙述散文或回忆录，长度为8-15页。在同伴读者的建议下，你将进行修订、重写并完成你的作品。你所学到的情节、背景、人物描写以及风格的清晰性和创新性，将最终成就你的原创艺术作品。我们还将讨论专业作家如何将他们的作品呈现到公众面前的步骤。同时，你将学习到作为作家所需的耐心修订习惯。 课程大纲： 第一部分：项目总结介绍与材料收集 本周，我们将安排项目总结的议程—七周的结构化工作，你将从积累的笔记和练习出发，完成你的第一稿。 第二部分：创作策略 你已将所有的草稿、笔记和研究整理到一起，现在开始动手撰写第一稿。通过与Jaimy Gordon和Amy Bloom的访谈，我们探讨不同作家如何面对空白页及其创作的不同策略。 第三部分：完成第一稿 本周专注于推动重要的截止日期：在一周结束前完成第一稿。你将获得成功的Wesleyan校友作家的建议，他们从你的现状走向在外发布的书籍。 第四部分：同伴评审 第一稿完成后，现在是时候进行第一次重要的同伴评审。本周我们将讨论如何给予有效的批评，并展示一个样本故事和工作坊。你将对三位同学的作品进行批评，他们也将对你的作品进行评审。 第五部分：使用批评与细致修订 对于你收到的批评意见，有些会立即认同，有些会更具挑战性，本周我们将讨论“亲爱的工作坊”信件，帮助你理清思路并决定如何处理这些有时相互矛盾的建议。同时，我们将进行更专注于文字层面的简短批评。 第六部分：重写与出版 本周的主题是重修、重写。我们将讨论如何从不同的角度阅读和接近你的草稿，以捕捉动作、语言和人物描写。通过与Brando Skyhorse的对话，我们也将探讨如果你希望在不久的将来出版作品，应该采取何种措施。 第七部分：接下来该如何进行？ 到本周结束时，你将完成故事的最终版本。我们将讨论如何继续保持创作动力—无论是通过作家小组、会议，还是通过日常的写作实践。一旦你提交了作品的最终版，你还需要对三位同学的故事进行最终评审，并获得他们对你作品的评价。恭喜你！你将完成这一系列课程的学习。
Part: 1
Title:Introduction to the Capstone and Gathering Materials
Description: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.
Part: 2
Title:Composition Strategies
Description: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.
Part: 3
Title:Finishing the First Draft
Description: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.
Part: 4
Title:Peer Review
Description: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.
Part: 5
Title:Using Critique and Sanding
Description:Some of the critiques you’ve received will seem immediately right, some more challenging, some may seem averse to your goals. This week we discuss the “Dear Workshop” Letter: a way of settling your thoughts and making decisions about what to do with all that sometimes conflicting advice as you proceed toward the final draft. We also take a moment to do a shorter critique focused more closely on the word-level decisions that you and your fellow-writers have made. You’ll perform a “sanding revision” on a single page of three of your fellow writers’ stories—you’ll report to the writer all the places her language or punctuation could use clarifying, and, just as important, where they’re already working at their best.
Part: 6
Title:Rewriting and Publication
Description:If the theme of Week Three was Compose, compose, compose, this week’s theme is Revise, rewrite; revise, rewrite. We’ll discuss different ways of reading and approaching your draft to catch the action and the language and the characterization from different angles. Through a conversation with Brando Skyhorse, we’ll also take a moment to discuss what to do after the class if you hope some day soon to publish your work.
Part: 7
Title:Where to Go From Here?
Description:By the end of this week, you will finish the final version of your story. We’ll discuss ways of continuing the creative momentum that’s brought you this far—whether through writers’ groups or conferences, or just through a daily writing practice. Once you turn in the final version of your piece, you’ll perform final critiques of the stories of three of your fellow writers and will likewise receive their evaluations of your work. Congratulations: you will have completed the Specialization.
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.
