DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Becoming a great essayist / Professor Jennifer Cognard-Black, St. Mary's College of Maryland.

Chantilly, VA : The Great Courses : The Teaching Company, [2016]

©2016

4 videodiscs (approximately 720 min.) : DVD video, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (vi, 184 pages ; 19 cm).

digital optical

laser optical NTSC

video file DVD video

The Great courses. Literature & language. Writing ; no. 2521

Great courses (DVD) ; no. 2521.

Essay -- Authorship.

Cognard-Black, Jennifer, 1969- instructor.

Teaching Company, production company.

"Course no. 2521."

Accompanied by the course guidebook of the same title.

Jennifer Cognard-Black, lecturer.

DVD video, Dolby digital, NTSC.

Disc 1. 1. Steal, adopt, adapt : where essays begin -- 2. Memory maps and your essay's direction -- 3. Secrets, confession, and a writer's voice -- 4. The skeptical essayist : conflicting views -- 5. The reasonable essayist : artistic proofs -- 6. The unreasonable essayist : strategic irony -- Disc. 2. 7. The empathetic essayist : evoking emotion -- 8. When an essayist's feelings face facts -- 9. Unabashedly me : the first-person essay -- 10. Essayists as poets : tapping into imagery -- 11. The visual essay : words + pictures -- 12. Writing inch by inch : from draft to polish -- Disc 3. 13. Short forms : microessays and prose poems -- 14. The memoir essay -- 15. Lyric essays : writing that sings -- 16. The epistolary essay : letters to the world -- 17. Portrait essays : people in words -- 18. The essayist as public intellectual -- Disc 4. 19. Polemical essays : one-sided arguments -- 20. Historical essays : past as present -- 21. Humor essays -- 22. Nature essays -- 23. Food essays : my grandmother's recipe box -- 24. Sharing your essays : from blog to book.

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