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How to Write Your Life Story
Course Code: DED216
School: Distance-Education.org
Description
This program is designed with helping the beginning writer to aptly combine the facts, any records (pertinent for sharing, recording) and memories together in a fashion that is both enjoyable and easy to read.
Emphasis of this course is to write with clarity, continuity and in a manner that bring the events and people of their life alive.
Outcomes
- Students demonstrate their knowledge of course work by providing an outline (that sets the tone and type of format to be used) for their story.
- Students display their editing skills through periodic exercises and sample chapter.
- As a result of exercises and course assistance, students learn how to write their life story and provide at least one sample chapter to be evaluated by completion of the course.
Assessment
- Be able assess significant facts to record in their life story.
- Create an outline specific to the format of writing their life story, such as: chronological or significant events.
- Learn how to use adverbs, verbs, adjectives and other forms of English idiom to best describe the events, places and persons in their life.
- Learn how to use an effective style for their story, like the narration.
- Recognize the importance and value of reviewing their stories and having their work critiqued. Be able to edit their work and present materials in a succinct manner.
- By the end of the course students should have one or more sample chapters of their book for grading and critiquing that will demonstrate what they have learned.