Study Writing : Writing What You Know with Open Learn

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Do you want to improve your descriptive writing? This free course, Writing what you know, will help you to develop your perception of the world about you and enable you to see the familiar things in everyday life in a new light. You will also learn how authors use their own personal histories to form the basis of their work.

 

Course learning outcomes

After studying this course, you should be able to:

  • articulate the notion of ‘write what you know’
  • write ‘blind’ descriptions of known objects and note new observations
  • have an enhanced ability to list sensory perceptions
  • write short texts about a personal memory of either a place or a character.

 

Course duration : 8 hours

You can start this course straight away. Please follow the link in your confirmation email to take you directly to the course.

 

This is an access anytime e-learning resource provided free of charge in association Open Learn

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