Memoir and Personal Essay: Write About Yourself
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About this course
How To Write About Yourself...so that someone else wants to read it! This is the heart of this Coursera specialization in Memoir and Personal Essay. Masters of both genres share tips, prompts, exercises, readings and challenges to help every writer imagine, construct and write compelling pieces of non-fiction's most popular form: the personal narrative.
What you'll learn
- strategies for writing personal narratives
- techniques for constructing memoirs and essays
- utilization of prompts and exercises for creative writing
- understanding of the elements that make a personal narrative engaging
Skills you'll gain
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