Do you want to be published? Learn to write like a professional! Learn about the key elements of different genres of writing. Improve your writing technique. Develop a more efficient approach to your work. 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.
Course 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.
Advanced Freelance Writing Course Outline
There are 8 lessons in this course:
- Introduction.
- Writing Themes, Sentence Structure, Summary Skills, Theme Development (e.g.. Deductive, Inductive, Classic, Chronological, Descriptive, Analogy, Cause & Effect, Classification, Definition Analysis, Comparison & Contrast, Flashback etc)
- Writing a Regular Column
- Newsletters, News Columns, Criticism Journalism (e.g. Theatre Critics, Book Reviews, Film Reviews, etc)
- Educational Writing
- Interviewing Skills, Illustrating an article, Putting it all together
- Scientific Writing
- Technical Writing, Statistics
- Writing a Biographical Story
- Developing a draft plan, Research, Writing the final manuscript
- Writing a News Article
- Analysing a news article; writing and illustrating a sporting event
- Fiction Writing
- Category Writing; Mainstream Writing; Characteristics of good fiction (i.e.. A strong plot;. A hero or heroine; Obvious motivation; Plenty of action; A colourful background), Forming and developing an idea.
- Other Writing
- TV & Radio Scripts, Science Fiction, Conducting a Survey; Developing a Story.
Each lesson culminates in an assignment which is submitted to the school, marked by the school’s tutors and returned to you with any relevant suggestions, comments, and if necessary, extra reading.
If you are looking for a more introductory course to get started look at the Freelance Writing Course Online.