This weekend will unravel the secrets of the storyteller’s craft and allow you to experiment with an array of key writing techniques to deepen your understanding of the stories you want to tell and how to tell them.
Overview
This weekend will unravel the secrets of the storyteller’s craft and allow you to experiment with an array of key writing techniques to deepen your understanding of the stories you want to tell and how to tell them.
Interactive, informative and fun, the weekend will look in detail at the four pillars on which all great stories rely: character, dialogue, description and narrative structure.
You will be encouraged throughout the weekend to think in new and dynamic ways about these four crucial elements of effective writing and the craft of storytelling they serve. You will leave equipped with a spring in your creative step and a range of practical tools with which to hone your own writing.
The history of continuing education at Oxford
Nearly 150 years ago, a movement called 'Oxford Extension' began at the University of Oxford - an initiative that sprang from general educational reforms in the mid-Victorian era, and from a growing national sense of social awareness.
The history of Oxford University's Department for Continuing Education is several stories in one: it's the story of a handful of dedicated Oxford tutors who felt that educational opportunity was essential to the nation's welfare and future;
it's an account of ordinary citizens collaborating with Oxford to design a format of education that served their needs; and it's the story of adult education evolving as successive generations of students, from 1878 to the present day, participated in ever-growing numbers.
The articles below are milestones in our efforts to bring Oxford teaching to the widest possible audience.
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