Telling Your Story - The Art of the Personal Essay' - 4 week course

About Telling Your Story - The Art of the Personal Essay' - 4 week course

This course is for 4 weeks starting 18th September 2017 7-9pm

Tutor Bio: 

Mel Green is a qualified teacher with over a decade of experience

teaching in state and special schools. She holds an Education MA and

has completed her first year of a Masters in Creative Writing.

Mel Green is currently published writer specialising in personal essays,

educational materials and articles on parenting. She has written and

submitted a number of short stories to magazines and competitions. She

is also a qualified fiction editor specialising in Middle Grade and Young

Adult novels.

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Topics

1st week:

Introduction to creative non-fiction as a genre

How to conduct research as a writer

2nd week:

The self as a character

Other characters

3rd week:

Structuring writing

Interesting techniques

4th week:

Peer review session

Evaluating and reflecting

What should participants be able to do by the end of the course?

Students will be able to:

Use a notebook to capture ideas

Conduct research for writing a personal essay

Structure a personal essay

Use a variety of writing techniques

Evaluate the writing of others

What form will classes take?

Paired activities

Group discussions

Writing activities

Solo presentations