| Description |
4 videodiscs (12 hr.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (iv, 166 pages ; 19 cm) |
| Series |
Great courses (DVD) Literature & language.
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| Note |
DVD. |
| Contents |
Disc 1: 1. Welcome to creative nonfiction -- 2. Finding the story -- 3. Honoring the nonfiction contract -- 4. Writing great beginnings -- 5. Show, don't tell -- 6. Launching a narrative arc. Disc 2: 7. Cliffhangers and page turners -- 8. Building dramatic sentences -- 9. Rhetorical devices and emotional impact -- 10. Putting it all together -- 11. Revealing character in words and actions -- 12. Creating compelling characters. Disc 3: 13. Character psychology -- 14. Getting inside the heads of your characters -- 15. Using narrative perspective -- 16. Shaping your voice -- 17. Writing the gutter--how to not tell a story -- 18. Dialogue strategies in creative nonfiction. Disc 4: 19. Researching creative nonfiction -- 20. How to not have people hate you -- 21. Revising your work -- 22. Building your audience -- 23. Getting published -- 24. Being a writer. |
| Performer |
Professor Tilar J. Mazzeo, Colby College |
| Subject |
Creative nonfiction.
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Authorship -- Study and teaching.
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Authorship -- Study and teaching. |
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Creative nonfiction. |
| Added Author |
Mazzeo, Tilar J.
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Teaching Company.
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| ISBN |
1598038427 |
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9781598038422 |
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