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课程概述

This course is for curious students and aspiring authors with a passion for writing for young readers. Participate in a dynamic online community of writers as you experiment with your own writing and develop your voice. This course will guide you with a combination of video lectures, online readings, peer reviews, and guest appearances from world-renowned children’s authors. As you work through the writing exercises, you will give and receive feedback from your peers and gain tools and techniques for improving your writing. During this course you will identify stories that matter to you, explore cultural significance and boundaries, and shape your identity as a writer; become familiar with standard elements of narrative (character, setting, plot, theme, language, dialogue, point of view); reflect on your own work and practice essential self-editing skills; see the different ways in which words and art interact, and the possibilities of longer narrative forms; come away with practical insights into publishing options; and create a plan for pursuing your enthusiasm for writing. By the end of the course, you will have ten to twelve extracts of writing that you can develop into a portfolio. Join a dynamic community of many voices from around the world. Find inspiration in your own voice, heart, and place so that you can tell the stories for young readers you’ve always wanted to tell....

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SV

Aug 25, 2023

its one of the best courses I have completed. just wonderful..very precise, revelant subjects and topics and very good activities. thankyou coursera. it was like meditation to me doing this course.

LM

May 19, 2018

I really enjoyed this course, though I never imagined myself as a writer of childrens fiction, it may very well look like, that my first book, might be exactly that.Thank you to the great teachers.

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501 - Writing for Young Readers: Opening the Treasure Chest 的 525 个评论(共 544 个)

创建者 Sudha D

Sep 14, 2015

Many more Handouts to refer can improve the course much better

创建者 Kattia C

Aug 31, 2015

Very good Training! Lots of examples and practical knowledge.

创建者 Amy R P

Jan 14, 2025

Instruction is good; peer grading component is not as strong.

创建者 Colleen W

Apr 2, 2025

I learned a lot, enjoyed the interviews and the assignments

创建者 TONY E 1

Jun 27, 2020

Its a very effective MOOC to enhance the writing skills.

创建者 Katy S

Aug 31, 2015

This was a very helpful course, as well as entertaining.

创建者 Ekaterina K

Sep 5, 2015

The course is helpful for begining writers. Thank you.

创建者 Mónica S

Jun 15, 2017

I learned a lot in this course. It was really good

创建者 Grace M

Sep 6, 2021

The course has some very clear and practical tips

创建者 C L

Oct 3, 2015

I'm learning to write a book which is great.

创建者 Funmibi A

Mar 31, 2023

Thanks so much on the opportunity to learn

创建者 P R R

Jun 28, 2020

Great way of explanation of the topics.

创建者 Inuyasha

Oct 14, 2017

Good explanation for non native speaker

创建者 Nguyễn M T

Nov 10, 2015

Great, this course upgraded my view.

创建者 Cátia B

Jun 27, 2016

I loved it all!

创建者 Karina N L

Nov 12, 2016

Very good :)

创建者 Meredith F

Aug 30, 2015

Great class!

创建者 Sara M S V

May 23, 2020

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创建者 Rebecca F

Sep 2, 2015

I want to give it 3 1/2 starts - sometimes the modules seem really segmented and you spend half the time repeating the same ideas or recapping the course material (that was new that week!).

While the assessment tasks were great exercises, the fact that they're peer-reviewed means that the feedback you get is often unhelpful or poorly informed.

It was a good course to do, but I don't think it's really going to change anyone's life (and I would encourage people to not take the peer feedback too seriously!).

创建者 C. M K

Sep 9, 2022

It doesn't really focus on writing for young readers. The content are okay in terms of creating writing concept but you would rarely find anything specific for children. If you are looking for basic concept for writing, which this course actually offers despite of what the course name says, I'd recommend to go with Creative Writing course from Weslyan Uni. I kind of feel cheated because the titel differs so much from the actual course content. It should be named "Creative Writing in General".

创建者 Arlene H

Feb 16, 2021

I enjoyed the course a lot. However, I found that some of the peer reviews were extremely subjective and not really an honest critique of the work. Language barriers were the biggest setback as were the fact that peers are not qualified in critique methods, myself included. It would be extremely valuable for a qualified reviewer to comment on our work and give us the type of feedback we are looking for so we can improve our work.

创建者 Aurelien T

Sep 30, 2015

Far too basic in content. It's clearly aimed at people with next to no experience at all on writing and publishing! However, it still is insightful and inspirational as, 'Writing for Young Readers' is taught by two established children writers and, packed with interviews of other writers from all around the world. A nice introduction but, just that -an introduction. If you have experience writing (for children or else)

创建者 Jennifer F

Jul 27, 2020

Course Material is good, particularly the last module and David Hill's author interviews. I would suggest that you limit the uploadable file format to pdf because I'm wary of grading documents that are not pdfs that I have to download to read. For example, instead of an enquiry letter a student submitted an anime image, and I can't tell is that a misunderstanding or a joke.