Becoming a Great Essayist (TTC Video)

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Becoming a Great Essayist (TTC Video)
24 Video lectures - 30 minutes each, 24 MP3 Audio lectures, and a detailed 192 page PDF Course Guidebook is included.  9 GB

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. Dr. Jennifer Cognard-Black, Professor of English at St. Mary's College of Maryland, is your expert guide. Professor Cognard-Black-who is an award-winning author, a 2012 Fulbright Scholar, and a former student of the renowned author Jane Smiley-has an intimate, honest, and direct approach. She teaches you that the versatility and expressiveness of the essay make it an ideal medium for crafting stories and drawing perspectives out of even the most reluctant writers.

LECTURE 1 Steal, Adopt, Adapt: Where Essays Begin

LECTURE 2 Memory Maps and Your Essay's Direction

LECTURE 3 Secrets, Confession, and a Writer's Voice

LECTURE 4 The Skeptical Essayist: Conflicting Views

LECTURE 5 The Reasonable Essayist: Artistic Proofs

LECTURE 6 The Unreasonable Essayist: Strategic Irony

LECTURE 7 The Empathetic Essayist: Evoking Emotion

LECTURE 8 When an Essayist's Feelings Face Facts

LECTURE 9 Unabashedly Me: The First-Person Essay

LECTURE 10 Essayists as Poets: Tapping into Imagery

LECTURE 11 The Visual Essay: Words + Pictures

LECTURE 12 Writing Inch by Inch: From Draft to Polish

LECTURE 13 Short Forms: Microessays and Prose Poems

LECTURE 14 The Memoir Essay

LECTURE 15 Lyric Essays: Writing That Sings

LECTURE 16 The Epistolary Essay: Letters to the World

LECTURE 17 Portrait Essays: People in Words

LECTURE 18 The Essayist as Public Intellectual

LECTURE 19 Polemical Essays: One-Sided Arguments

LECTURE 20 Historical Essays: Past as Present

LECTURE 21 Humor Essays

LECTURE 22 Nature Essays

LECTURE 23 Food Essays: My Grandmother's Recipe Box