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How to Write Your Life Story

Course Code: DED216
School: Distance-Education.org

Course Materials Available: 5 Days Estimated Hours to Complete Course: 24

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.

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Instructor

Alison (Katherine) Dubois has earned a number of writing related degrees, in areas such as: creative writing, Literature, and Journalism, and is the recipient of four national poetry awards. Dubois has also worked as a reporter for nearly a dozen newspapers and been a freelance writer for over two decades, and teaches a number of online courses, including topic such as: Freelance Writing, Writing Your Life Story, and Non-Fictional Writing.