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Becoming a great essayist, Jennifer Cognard-Black

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Becoming a great essayist, Jennifer Cognard-Black

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Becoming a great essayist

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Jennifer Cognard-Black

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The great courses

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Discover the keys to unlocking your potential in essay writing with Becoming a Great Essayist. These 24 illuminating lectures explore numerous genres or types of essays, challenge you with stimulating writing prompts, and provide insights into how to get to know yourself like never before so that you may write honest, compelling, and GREAT essays. And because essays are so flexible in their style and function, the skills you build writing great essays may be applied to almost all other forms of writing. While the goal of this course is to provide you with fundamental abilities that will improve your essays, the skills you will learn also provide a foundation to develop any writing project you undertake. This is an unrivalled opportunity to advance your critical and creative thinking skills, enhance your ability to master a strong and persuasive style, and most importantly, allow you to get to know your own inner voice

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Steal, adopt, adapt: where essays begin -- Memory maps and your essay's direction -- Secrets, confession, and a writer's voice -- The skeptical essayist: conflicting views -- The reasonable essayist: artistic proofs -- The unreasonable essayist: strategic irony -- The empathetic essayist: evoking emotion -- When an essayist's feelings face facts -- Unabashedly me: the first-person essay -- Essayists as poets: tapping into imagery -- The visual essay: words + pictures -- Writing inch by inch: from draft to polish -- Short forms: microessays and prose poems -- The memoir essay -- Lyric essays" writing that sings -- The epistolary essay: letters to the world -- Portrait essays: people in words -- The essayist as public intellectual -- Polemical essays: one-sided arguments -- Historical essays: past as present -- Humor essays -- Nature essays -- Food essays" my grandmother's recipe box -- Sharing your essays: from blog to book

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