Writing your World: Finding yourself in the academic space
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Course Summary
This course is designed to help students improve their writing skills and develop their voices as writers. Through a series of lectures and writing assignments, students will learn how to craft compelling stories and essays that reflect their unique perspectives and experiences.Key Learning Points
- Develop your own voice and style as a writer
- Learn how to craft compelling stories and essays
- Receive feedback from both peers and instructors
Job Positions & Salaries of people who have taken this course might have
- Content Writer
- USA: $50,000 - $80,000
- India: INR 3,00,000 - INR 6,00,000
- Spain: € 20,000 - € 30,000
- Copywriter
- USA: $45,000 - $80,000
- India: INR 3,00,000 - INR 6,00,000
- Spain: € 20,000 - € 30,000
- Journalist
- USA: $30,000 - $80,000
- India: INR 2,00,000 - INR 7,00,000
- Spain: € 20,000 - € 30,000
Related Topics for further study
Learning Outcomes
- Develop your own unique voice and style as a writer
- Craft compelling stories and essays that reflect your unique perspective and experiences
- Receive constructive feedback from both peers and instructors to improve your writing
Prerequisites or good to have knowledge before taking this course
- No prior writing experience required
- A willingness to share your writing with others and receive feedback
Course Difficulty Level
BeginnerCourse Format
- Self-paced
- Online
- Interactive
Similar Courses
- Creative Writing: The Craft of Plot
- Writing for Social Justice
- Advanced Writing
Related Education Paths
Notable People in This Field
- Stephen King
- J.K. Rowling
Related Books
Description
Throughout the world, writing serves to express, record and even create meaningful moments. In academic spaces, writing becomes the bridge between ourselves and the world of ideas. In this course, we provide practical insights into how to write an academic essay. We show you how to develop the academic skills needed to be a competent academic writer. You will have an opportunity to engage with texts written by academics, and to see how some of the ideas in these texts are used by students in constructing an academic essay. We address some of the challenges these students face with respect to academic writing and offer you the opportunity to practice and to develop your own writing style. For this course, we centre our lessons around a specific topic - the concept of identity, since it forms such an important feature of how we locate ourselves in an ever-changing global world. In other words, this course teaches academic writing skills through getting you to write and reflect on your understanding of identity. So if you are thinking about studying at a tertiary institution, or if you just want to brush up on your academic essay writing skills, this course is for you!
Outline
- Starting to write: Understanding definitions of identity
- Writing your World: Finding yourself in the academic space
- Thinking about your essay
- Meet our student writers
- Through the looking glass: Who am I?
- Woodward on identity: I, me and the world
- Woodward on identity: Roots and routes
- How do definitions work?
- Definitions in context
- Drafting your definition
- Giving feedback on definitions
- How this course works
- Meet your instructors
- Week 1: What to expect
- Summary of Woodward's interview
- Week 1 recommended readings
- Is this course right for you?
- Woodward Practice Quiz
- Week 1 Graded Quiz
- Developing an argument: shifting identities
- Recap on identity
- Identity and mobility through the ages
- Nelson Mandela: Terrorist or freedom fighter?
- Reading strategies
- Applying reading strategies: Sichone’s chapter
- Applying reading strategies: Blommaert’s chapter
- Understanding the course essay
- Drafting your introduction
- Giving feedback on introductions
- Relationship between the introduction and conclusion
- Week 2: What to expect
- Required reading - Xenophobia by Owen Sichone
- Required reading - Discourse by Blommaert
- Sichone and Blommaert practice quiz
- Week 2 practice quiz
- Critique an introduction
- Supporting the argument: situating identity within culture
- Recap on identity and mobility
- Case study of an international student
- Pool of abundance: Understanding culture
- Round table discussion on culture
- Writing paragraphs
- Quotes and paraphrasing
- In-text referencing
- Coherence and cohesion
- Student writers drafting their paragraphs
- Giving feedback on Ada’s paragraph
- Giving feedback on Ziggy’s paragraph
- Giving feedback on Joey's paragraphs
- Week 3: What to expect
- Required reading: Culture: A contemporary definition by Thornton
- Cohesive devices - Linking words
- Thornton Quiz
- Week 3 practice quiz
- Paragraph development quiz
- Starting to finish: writing the first draft
- Looking back on the course
- Round table discussion: Reflection on the readings
- The essay building blocks
- Referencing and managing sources
- Giving feedback on Ziggy's draft
- Giving feedback on Joey's draft
- Giving feedback on Ada's draft
- Looking forward
- Week 4: What to expect
- Week 4 practice quiz
- Critique an essay
Summary of User Reviews
Writing Your World is a highly recommended course for anyone who wants to improve their writing skills. The course received great feedback from users for its engaging content and the quality of the instructors. One key aspect that many users found helpful was the interactive writing exercises that helped them practice the concepts covered in the course.Pros from User Reviews
- Engaging content
- Quality instructors
- Interactive writing exercises
- Great for beginners
- Useful feedback on assignments
Cons from User Reviews
- Some users found the course material too basic
- Not enough focus on specific writing genres
- Limited peer interaction
- High workload
- Some technical issues with the platform
Gideon Nomdo
4.7 Raiting
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