Learner Reviews & Feedback for Creative Writing: The Craft of Character by Wesleyan University
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I loved this course! Extremely useful and hands on. The course instructor was really impressive, both informative and empathetic, both arty and to the point. Totally admired her style of instruction.
The course was very well-structured and challenging. The instructor is very experienced and good, thus used relevant materials for this course, be it the guests, or the assignments, or the examples.
376 - 400 of 454 Reviews for Creative Writing: The Craft of Character
By ALESS D
•good exercises, opend to questions and organized but with a lack of diversity in the ways they explain concepts
By Max H
•the assignment descriptions are very confusing so I'd recommend looking into the forums for help. decent videos
By Ali N
•Enjoyed the lectures, but the assignments were poorly explained and definitely could have been better.
By Tanya D
•This course is very informative, however, I do wish that quizzes were a part of these courses.
By Sandra D
•The course could have been delivered better, but I enjoyed the challenging assignments.
By Esther Z
•A little boring at times but lots of valuable information on how to build a character.
By Brooke B
•Great course, but I do wish the actual instructors gave their feedback on your work.
By Erick A
•Muy buen curso, te da todas las herramientas básicas para crear tu personaje
By Robert M H
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By Margot R M
•Liked this course. It helps to make sure character is central to the plot
By Ma. C D
•Somtimes the assignment instructions were hard to understand.
By Shreyashi K
•It was an amazing course, helped me hon my writing skills.
By Madhu K S
•Liked the course. Assignments were not very clear to me.
By Norrarat S
•great course ! help me a lot on my fantasy novel writing
By Elsa W P
•I enjoyed the exploration, and the writing exercises.
By Sumit S
•Great and helpful.
10/10 would recommend
By Paulo S
•nice lectures and lesson activities
By Adonay O G
•Very demanding, I'm worn out.
By Ritupriya G
•Very insightful .Thanks
By Victor F A
•Excellent course!
By Tim J
•Excellent class!
By Andrea E M
•Very helpful :)
By Vidhi D
•I have quite a bit to say about the course.
Firstly, I know that there are delicate nuances and such to writing good, memorable characters, and the instructor has explained them pretty well, but I feel that the technicalities required to actually begin writing somewhat-good characters, and even those required to finish the requisite assignments were barely touched upon. The explanations seemed vague at the very best.
Secondly, about peer review. I reviewed over 30 assignments, and it is safe to conclude that many peers didn't understand the instructions or the grading rubric. For the former, one could say that the instructions were confusing and difficult to follow through for someone just starting off with creative writing. Moreover, many peers were just not interested in giving fruitful feedback and left words like "good," "." and the like. So that didn't help much.
Apart from these two points, the course was enjoyable. Thank you for reading.
By judy t
•I would have given this course 5 stars except for the grading. The only reviewers of your work are fellow students. Some of them do a good job telling you what they liked about the writing and some do not just answering "yes or no" to questions asked. It would be nice if a TA or other students actually in the writing courses at Wesleyan read your work. I have learned a lot and I have liked the assignments but that is where the value has stopped. I know there are too many students for the faculty to grade or even read our work but it would be much more valuable if we really knew how we are doing. The discussion board is sporadically attended and really of no value. Feedback is important in writing and this is the part of these courses that is missing.
By Catherine B
•The lectures in this class are well done and informative, and they provide a lot of good material. However, the assignment portion needs a lot of work. The instructions weren't clear for anyone taking the class which resulted in incredibly difficult grading. It was hard to even understand the basic ideas of what was required for an assignment.
I think the teacher very much needs to go back and change the wording of the assignments, add more information in the instructions, and also post an example to show what is expected since a lot of the assignments are very strange, like a describing a character without mentioning the character in any way.
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