Learn the skills you need to write professionally
Advance your writing ability under the guidance of our expert tutors. Learn the skills you need to write for profit across a range of writing styles.
Duration: 100 hours
COURSE STRUCTURE
The course is divided into 8 lessons as follows:
1. Introduction.
Writing Themes, Sentence Structure, Summary Skills, Theme Development (eg. Deductive, Inductive, Classic, Chronological, Descriptive, Analogy, Cause & Effect, Classification, Definition Analysis, Comparison & Contrast, Flashback etc)
2. Writing a Regular Column
Newsletters, News Columns, Criticism Journalism (eg Theatre Critics, Book Reviews, Film Reviews, etc)
3. Educational Writing
Interviewing Skills, Illustrating an article, Putting it all together
4. Scientific Writing
Technical Writing, Statistics
5. Writing a Biographical Story
Developing a draft plan, Research, Writing the final manuscript
6. Writing a News Article
Analysing a news article; writing and illustrating a sporting event
7. Fiction Writing
Category Writing; Mainstream Writing; Characteristics of good fiction (ie. A strong plot;. A hero or heroine; Obvious motivation; Plenty of action; A colourful background), Forming and developing an idea.
8. Other Writing
TV & Radio Scripts, Science Fiction, Conducting a Survey; Developing a Story.
Aims
- Review basic writing skills and discuss theme development
- Develop skills in writing a regular magazine or newspaper column.
- Describe the key elements of educational writing.
- Describe the key elements of technical writing.
- Develop skills in interviewing and preparing a biographical story.
- Develop skills in writing news articles.
- Develop skills in writing fiction.
- Describe other writing styles including script writing.
WHAT WILL YOU DO IN THIS COURSE?
This course develops and sharpens your writing skills largely through interaction with the tutor. Apart from that though, you will read about different writing techniques, you will conduct research and interviews, and plan projects.
Refine your skills and write like a professional
This is an ideal course to follow Freelance Writing - it is for people who have existing skills in Freelance Writing, but who need to improve their overall technique and develop a more "commercial" approach to their work. Learn about the key elements of different genres of writing. Improve your overall technique and develop a more "efficient" approach to your work.
