How to Explain Anything
with Geraldine Woods
Genres: Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Memoir, Young Adult/Children's Lit, Novel, Short Story, Essay, Writing for Performance
Online
Online Open to all levels
Open to all levels 1 Session
1 Session Think conveying information is easy? So did the people who wrote the manual for your television, the assembly instructions for your furniture, and the news story about cryptocurrency you're still trying to decode. So did authors inserting exposition and emotional truth into novels, plays, and poetry. In this class, you learn techniques that help you explain what you know to readers who don't. The course is interactive: everyone will write, and those who are willing will share their work.
REGISTRATION DATES:
- March 12: Member registration opens at 10:30 am PT
- March 19: General registration opens at 10:30 am PT
- March 25: Last day of Early Bird pricing
Geraldine Woods
I’m the author of a stack of grammar books (English Grammar For Dummies, Webster’s New World Punctuation: Simplified and Applied, and more) and an educator with four decades of experience teaching every level of English from 5th grade through AP. My most recent books, 25 Great Sentences and How They Got That Way (Norton, 2020) and Sentence. A Period-to-Period Guide to Building Better Readers and Writers (Norton, 2021), explore the techniques authors use to make their writing more effective. My only remotely cool moment came when I was interviewed by a reporter from MTV about the decision by “Panic! At the Disco” to drop their exclamation point.
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