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Build Your Student’s Strengths in Narrative Writing

By Felix Cheong

17 August 2013 (Sat)
9.30am – 5.30pm

Course Fee: $120.00

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Drawing from his vast experience as a writer, Felix Cheong will introduce strategies to help you help your students who have weaker writing skills improve their narrative writing. Using a multi-media approach, Felix will take you through the basics of narrative writing, from the structure of plots to the use of descriptions, and offer suggestions for prewriting games as well as writing exercises you can use in the classroom.

Course Outline:

  • Helping students to show, not tell
  • Helping students to identify problem in the topic
  • Helping students to plot story arcs
  • How to use the experience of the five senses in descriptive writing How to use master plots as scaffolding

About the Trainer: Felix Cheong

Felix Cheong

Felix Cheong, completed his Master of Philosophy in Creative Writing at the University of Queensland in 2002 and is currently an adjunct lecturer with Murdoch University, University of Newcastle, University of Western Australia, Temasek Polytechnic and LASALLE College of the Arts.

Author of nine books, including four collections of poetry, two teen detective novels, The Call from Crying House (2006), and the sequel, Woman in the Last Carriage (2007), and Vanishing Point, which was long-listed for the prestigious Frank O’Connor last year. His latest book is Singapore Siu Dai, a collection of humorous flash fiction. The sequel, Singapore Siu Dai 2, will be launched in September.

He received the National Arts Council’s Young Artist of the Year for Literature Award in 2000 and was nominated for the Singapore Literature Prize in 2004.

Registration Details

Registration is on a first-come-first-served basis and workshop fees must be paid before the workshop. If the minimum number of participants is not met for the class, the organisers will inform all participants about possible postponement and cancellation, two weeks before the workshop date.

Cancellation & Substitution

The workshop can be cancelled or postponed two weeks before the workshop date if the minimum number of participants is not met. Participants will be fully refunded for workshops cancelled by us.

Participants who are unable to attend a workshop they have registered for are to inform us of the reason two weeks before the workshop date. They will be fully refunded in the event of extenuating and mitigating circumstances (E.g. illness, bereavement, accidents) . Those who inform us up to five (5) working days before the workshop date will receive a 50% refund. Participants can also attend another course at the same value within the same year.

Upon registration, you are deemed to have read and understood the cancellation, withdrawal and substitution policy and accept the terms contained therein.