Why Study this Advanced Freelance Writing Course?
This online advanced freelance writing course is perfect for those who want to earn from their existing writing skill! This course will give the sufficient knowledge, and the key elements to develop and enhance one’s freelance writing skills, may it be technical writing, news writing, script writing, educational writing and even interviewing and preparing a biographical story.
Build your Freelance Writing Skills
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.
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.
Lesson Structure
There are 8 lessons in this course:
- Writing Themes
- Sentence Structure
- Summary Skills
- Theme Development (eg. Deductive, Inductive, Classic, Chronological, Descriptive, Analogy, Cause & Effect, Classification, Definition Analysis, Comparison & Contrast, Flashback etc)
- Newsletters
- News Columns
- Criticism Journalism (eg Theatre Critics, Book Reviews, Film Reviews, etc)
- Interviewing Skills
- Illustrating an article
- Putting it all together
- Technical Writing
- Statistics
- Developing a draft plan
- Research
- Writing the final manuscript
- Analysing a news article
- writing and illustrating a sporting event
- 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.
- TV and Radio Scripts
- Science Fiction
- Conducting a Survey
- Developing a Story.
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- Experienced Tutor support
- Certificate sent to you
- Online study (Printed notes available)
- Self paced - no set timetable
- 12 months to complete course
From: $25.00 / week for 26 weeks