This second course in the Good with Words: Writing and Editing series will help you become an effective architect of information, both with your sentences and with your paragraphs. You’ll learn that the traditional advice to “Show, don’t tell” is incomplete and that skilled writers actually switch back and forth between showing and telling.
Writing and Editing: Structure and Organization
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Writing and Editing: Structure and Organization
This course is part of Good with Words: Writing and Editing Specialization
Instructor: Patrick Barry
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Approx. 15 hours
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What you'll learn
Learn how structure can be used to generate content
Place corresponding ideas in corresponding forms
Add nuance to your writing by using anadiplosis
Identify and assess when to use sentences with varying lengths
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27 assignments
Taught in English
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There are 4 modules in this course
In this first week, you will be introduced to instructor Patrick Barry and begin to learn about sentence flow and structure. In-video questions will direct you to content previously covered in the first course of this specialization.
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This week's content will focus on how structure can be used to generate content.
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