Online Course: Creative Writing Workshop - Certificate and CEUs
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Online Class: Creative Writing Workshop

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Get inspired. Learn to write similes, metaphors, alliteration, and more. Listen to your muse with fresh writing ideas. Constructive but gentle feedback is given.
Enroll today! This is a self-paced, online course. You have 6 months to finish. An instructor will monitor your progress and assess your body of work at course completion.
Course Cost: 6 Month Subscription
Basic Course (no certificate)   =   $29.00
Course with Certificate & CEUs   =   $54.00
Earn a certificate (both hard copy and electronic) upon successful completion (additional charges apply). UniversalClass™ offers many wonderful learning tools to help you get the most out of your online course, including an online portfolio service that manages all your course completions.
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Course Description

Creative Writing Workshop  

 

Write.  Learn.  Belong. 

  

Tap into the creative writer within you.  Whether you are a beginner or experienced writer, this writing workshop is for you.  You will write poetry and prose using similes, metaphors, alliteration, and more through practice and daily writing exercises with a live, interactive, online teacher you can talk with. 

 

Creative Writing Workshop offers you inspiration, a wealth of concrete examples, and the step by step guidance you need in order to write creatively.  I will show you writing prompts and samples from my own journal to provide you a model, and to give you the support you need.  Bring a desire to learn, and a commitment to write every day throughout the entire course..  You will also be given honest, but gentle and constructive feedback.

 

Imagine composing your own Writing Journal full of fresh and exciting prompts, poems, and ideas to keep you writing.  Write, learn, and belong to the community of writers here at Universal Class.

 

~Discover the joys of writing.  Join us now.

  Look for my other class, Memoir Writing and write your family stories.

 

 

 

 

Course Lessons

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Lesson One: Inside This Pen

Inside This Pen... Be a writer; act like a writer. Choose your writing tools carefully, a pen and a journal. You will begin your daily thirty minute writing exercises.

Lesson Two: Observation, Description, Simile and Metaphor

Observation, Description, Simile and Metaphor

Lesson Three: Be an Ethnographer with Euphony and Cacophony

Euphony, Cacophony, Found Poem, Derived Poem, Themes, Lists and Color Poems

Lesson Four: Neighborhood Maps, Lists, Schema

Neighborhood Maps: Lists to Hang On To, Schema, Prepositions

Lesson Five: The Journal Experience

Evaluate your own writing journey through your daily free writing journal. Museum writing prompts to jazz up your creativity.

Optional Certificates Awarded

  1. Certificate of Class Participation
  2. Certificate of Merit

This is an interactive class. Students must show they have followed the requirements in a consistent manner by writing, and posting assignments and discussions in the forum, etc.

Certificates may be awarded by the instructor at his/her own discretion and are based on student merit. To save your award and have a hard-copy delivered, there is a $30.00 processing fee that covers the customization, printing, and delivery of the award, as well as access to the UniversalClass™ Portfolio Service that documents your achievements online. Official awards have a serial number that verifies the authenticity of the award (great for employers to verify your achievement).
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Course Title : Creative Writing Workshop
CEU Value :

1.0 (Continuing Education Units)

Course Number : 11087
Course Type : How To
Course URL :

http://class.universalclass.com/ezpoetry101

Course Rating : 3 Star Rating
Instructor :

Joanie Brown

Syllabus :

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Duration : Continuous: Enroll anytime!
Course Fee :

Basic Course: $29

   

with CEUs & Certificate: $54

NOT FOR COLLEGE CREDIT
This is a non-credit course, and is provided for your personal enrichment. This course is not intended to be a substitute for any state, government, licensing, or educational requirements.

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Tap into the creative writer within you, and end the frustration of writer's block with Creative Writing Workshop . Students will master the discipline of daily writing by writing 30 minutes daily, 5 days a week, for 5 weeks. This is crucial to any success. Students will learn how to summon their muse to get the creative juices flowing by following lessons and assignments. By the end of the six week course, students will compose a series of poems and prose, creating a writing journal filled with strong imagery and literary elements.

Class Lessons to be covered include: Lesson One: Inside This Pen Step One: The Pen Occasion Step Two: Purchase a Writing Journal Step Three: Reading and Writing To be a Writer, You Must Write Your Voice is Like a Snowflake Prior Knowledge Voice The Single Best Writing Tip Reading Response Step Four: 30 Minute Daily Write It's Okay to Write Junk Objectivity Rules: Thirty Minutes Means Thirty Minutes Questions to Ask Yourself Before Writing Variety is More Than a Spice Paint a Picture With Words Imagery Ocean Play Tuesday at Lexington Market The End, Then What? Lesson Two: Observation, Description, Simile and Metaphor I Am a Writer Speak Like a Writer Capture the Moment Fake Rain on an Aluminum Roof Ready? Click. Shoot. Daily Writing Check-Up Prompts Observation, Description, Simile and Metaphor Prompt 1: When Life gives You Lemons, Write a Sensory Descriptive Observation Simile and Metaphor: Cultural Experience: Prompt 3: Jazz up your writing with the "w" words Who, What, When, Where, Why and How Lexington market, Baltimore Prompt 4: Extended Metaphor Moon Journal Alliteration Onomatopoeia Lesson Three Be an Ethnographer with Euphony and Cacophony prompt 6: Ethnographer for a Day! Create a poem from an Ethnography Report Prompt 7: Found Poem Prompt 8: Appropriated Poem Prompt 9: Cacophony Prompt 10: Euphony Hyperbole Things to Think About. Themes Make a List, Check it Twice The Beach Collection Prompt 11: Free association poetry Prompt 12: The Color Poem Lesson Four Activate Your Schema Get Out of Your Comfort Zone Prompt 13: The List In the Scheme of Things Inside the Wonderful World of Prepositions Prompt 14: Extend the List of Prepositions Neighborhood Mapping Tag, Your it: the Lost Art of Play Play Lesson Five Journal Experience Prompt 17: Daily Free Write Poem Photographic Memory Prompt 19: Museum Painting Evaluating Your Journal.

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