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Next Course: To be confirmed
Course Duration: One Day
Venue: The Ballsbridge Court Hotel, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4
Fees: €599.00
Inhouse: This course can be customised for in-house training
Course Aims:
Would you like to write articles that get noticed because they’re strong, clear, concise and polished?
Would you like to discover some tricks of the trade from a professional feature writer?
Whether you write for an industry journal, your company newsletter, a government website or a national newspaper, t his lively workshop-style course will give you the skills – and confidence – to think and write like a feature writer .
This highly practical one-day course takes you through all the essential steps in the craft of article writing, including how to hook your readers and ensure your message jumps off the page.
It is designed and delivered by Sarah Marriott, a former Irish Times journalist with extensive writing, editing and training experience.
On completion of this course you will be able to:
- Feel confident that you can write for your intended market
- Write articles that attract readers
- Raise your profile with articles you feel proud of
- Analyse the needs of your target publication and its readers
- Pitch ideas to commissioning editors
- Create outlines that ensure a reader-friendly structure
- Spend less time in planning, writing and editing
- Understand how to write with clarity, simplicity and brevity
- Find your own voice as a writer
- Identify and avoid common errors of grammar, sentence structure, vocabulary and punctuation
- Edit and proofread your own work
- Take away a comprehensive resource pack
What makes this course so special?
It is customised to meet the needs of participants. They are asked to complete a training-needs form and to submit a sample of their writing. This will be assessed by the trainer and returned with comments. It will also be used during individual editing practice.
Who should attend?
Anyone who writes or edits articles for newsletters, magazines, newspapers or websites.
Anyone who writes copy for brochures or leaflets and would like to improve the way they communicate with readers.
This course is both an introduction for new writers and a refresher for more experienced writers.
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