Many kinds of writing can be adapted for the web, but it's important to know what you're trying to communicate.
Before you sit down to write something, ask yourself some questions about the people who will read it.
The aim of this unit is to define what a feature is, within the context of newspapers, magazines and websites. To examine what differentiates a feature from other aspects of journalistic practice.
The aim of this session is to introduce you to the principles of writing a novel.
This session will introduce you to the breadth of opportunities in non-fiction book publishing and to help you develop an idea for a non-fiction book. Please note that this is a taster - a general introduction to a subject - with content that is updated each year in the actual MA course at UCF.
Shorter paragraphs and pages will help make your writing easier to read on the web, but you don't have to sacrifice important content.
This unit is designed to build your knowledge about story-telling and focuses on the writing of TV, radio, short film and feature film scripts. Whilst primarily dealing with forms of dramatic fiction, you'll also look at documentary and documentary-drama. You'll analyze different forms of scriptwriting, the elements they have in common and the specific tools that can help to deliver better scripts in each medium.
How you organize and format your writing can go a long way toward making it readable.
Students will focus on stylistic choices and sentence fluency by combining, decombining, and recombining sentences in professional writing, peer writing, and their own writing.
Links are the soul of the web, but make sure they support your content rather than detracting from it.
Serifs, sans serifs, and when to use them.
In this session we'll be looking at the sort of things business writers do and that you might be doing. At the end of this introductory session, you should have an idea of the range of purposes underlying written communications for business and not-for-profit organisations, and the wide variety of forms that such writing takes. You'll be trying your hand at a couple of short business writing assignments, and should gain a sense of how working in this area can be creatively challenging and fulfilling.
This is the first of a two-session part of the Writing for Children unit and aims to give you an understanding of what age group / stage you want to write for and appropriateness of such. Why is this so important? Writing for children requires the ability to identify the appropriate age group to which to match your story. This session will also introduce you to the varied styles and genres of children's books.
This is the second of a two-session part of the Writing for Children unit. In this second session you will develop an understanding of your chosen age group and begin to build up a portfolio of ideas and characters for stories for that age range.
Why teachers need to think about how they communicate on the web.
