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Algonkian Fiction Workshops
Algonkian Fiction Workshops offers unique online fiction and novel workshops for new and established writers. Online workshops feature lectures, exercises, instructor and class critiques and students learn technique, style, and structure from the most powerful and original fiction writers and novelists.
Business Writing Center
The Business Writing Center offers online writing courses teaching basic and intermediate writing skills. Here's just a few of the many courses offered:
- Basic Writing Skills
- Comprehensive Understanding of English Usage
- Editing Skills
- Individualized Writing Courses
- Intermediate Writing Skills
- Proofreading Skills
Business Writing Center
The Business Writing Center offers online writing courses teaching basic and intermediate copywriting skills, business writing skills and communication specialist skills. Business and copywriting classes include:
- Basic Writing Skills
- Business Writing
- Public Relations and Copywriting Skills
- Writing Effective Sales Letters
- Writing E-mail that Works
CourseBridge.com
Coursebridge offers online instructor-led courses for both personal and professional development. Courses are available in a variety of computing and general interest topics and include:
- Exploring Medieval Castles
- Tarot Reading
- Macromedia Flash I, II & III
- Introduction to Visual Basic
- Instructor Training Program
CourseBridge.com
Coursebridge offers online instructor-led courses in writing skills for both personal and professional development. Courses include:
- Basics of Publicity Writing
- English Grammar in the Workplace
- Humor Writing
- Write With Style
- Writing Sex for Money
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EnglishOnline.net
EnglishOnline.Net offers online courses in academic, business, and technical writing. Online writing courses are self-guided, available 24/7, and include clear lesson materials with interactive reviews, grammar and usage reviews and instruction, an online Writer's Handbook with exercises, a class discussion area, and feedback and assessment from experienced instructors. Students may register and begin at any time. All course materials and activities are online. Students submit writing assignments to class forum and/or by email to the instructor. Students receive instructor and peer feedback.
Fiction Writing Courses
Fiction Writer's Connection offers fiction writing courses via interactive email geared to both fiction and nonfiction writers. Courses are offered on an on-going basis so you can get started right away, and include resource materials online and supplied by your instructor. Course titles include:
- How to Write Winning Query Letters
- How to Write a Novel Synopsis
- How to Write Magazine and Newspaper Articles
- Elements of Novel Writing
- See You at the Movies!
Offbeatrips Travel and Tourism Journalism
'The Complete Travel Writer' is a comprehensive online travel journalism course, led by a professional editorial team. The course is available to individuals as well as tourism industry operators and other corporate entities. Samples of the course structure are available through the 'Free Tips' section of the website, comprising information on Writing, Photography, Sponsorship and Marketing issues. The course is available year-round and enrollments are accepted on an individual, 'start when you are ready' basis.
Online Writing Workshops
Coffeehouse for Writers offers a wide range of online writing workshops in writing basics, fiction and non-fiction. Here's a few sample titles:
- Nurturing the Muse
- Revive Your Writing
- Secrets of the Professional Freelancer
- Writing Fiction 101
Ringer's Secret School of Writing
Ringer's Secret School of Writing "explodes the myth which says that you must suffer in order to write. The biggest part of this school is the playground". This school is one big community offering interactivity with student posting pages, bulletin board, helpful writing samples, question and answer page, writing trivia and technical help. Online writing courses are structured in 8 lessons per semester. Tuition for each semester is $65.00 and you have 6 months to complete all 8 lessons. Lesson topics include:
- Getting Started
- Plot
- Creating Character
- Originality
- Rhythm
- Discipline, Procrastination and Process
Trace Writing School
The Trace Online Writing School at The Nottingham Trent University in England offers online courses in creative writing, short fiction, hypertext, cyberculture, animated poetry, screenwriting, novels, writing family history, research, writing web content and more. Sample course titles include:
- Creative Writing Workshop
- Writing an Online Family History
- Electronic Writing for Digital Media
- Experimental Writing
- Cyberculture and Literature
Word Museum Online Classes
Courses delivered via e-mail include Article Writing, Short Story, and Quill & Ink - a personalized course for the beginner writer. Courses are $25 - $35 and free workshops are offered on Fridays. Transcripts from previous courses are also available for purchase at reasonable prices.
Writing to Heal - Writing to Grow
Writing to Heal offers online writing courses to help you better understand the events in your life, create a written account to leave to your children, revisit the past, or heal emotional wounds. The writing courses are based on research which shows that writing deep thoughts and feelings about stressful events helps some people to heal, both emotionally and physically. Some of the courses available include:
- Writing About Cancer
- Writing for Personal Caregivers
- Writing for Families
- Your Life in Essays
Writers on the Net
Writers on the Net offers a large and varied selection of e-mail writing classes. Here's a sample of some upcoming courses:
- Writing Fiction for Children
- Scriptwriting - Screen & Stage
- Introduction to Fiction Writing
- Writing the First Novel
- Writing and Publishing Magazine Articles
- How to Write and Sell a Contemporary Romance Novel
Writer's Web
A free online resource by the University of Richmond Writing Center. You'll find informative and useful guides to all aspects of writing: Getting Started; The First Draft; Focusing & Connecting Ideas; Using Sources; Punctuation; Analysis & Argument; General Editing; Sentence Structure; and Editing for Clarity & Style.
The Albany Poetry Workshop
The Albany Poetry Workshop offers an online poetry class lasting 8 weeks and includes reading and writing assignments, a live discussion board, and weekly online live critiques of the poems you have written.
Poetry Magic
Poetry Magic is a resource centre for the theory and craft of writing poetry. With both beginners and advanced sections, Poetry Magic offers candid and practical advice on how to stimulate creativity, develop a theme, shape your poem from various aspects, publish your work, and get yourself known. Topics covered include:
- Finding a theme
- Originality
- Shaping a poem
- Imagery and Metaphor
- Rhythm and Stanza
- Critiquing
Glossary of Poetic Terms
A unique guide for the study of poetry, with an extensive range of definitions, cross-references between related terms, informative sidelights, hyperlinked keywords, phonetic pronunciation guides and numerous examples.
11 Rules of Writing
- Lists the most commonly violated rules of writing, grammar and punctuation as an aid to learning and refining writing skills.
Common Errors in English
- Precede (or is it proceed?) directly to this site to do the right write thing.
The Curmudgeon's Stylebook
- Nicely organized and easy to read list of dos and don'ts.
Guide to Grammar and Writing
- Sentence and paragraph structure and all the rules of writing. Fun quizzes to test your skill and if you are really stumped you can always Ask Grammar.
Worst Book Idea Contest
Start off your writing career by winning a prize for Worst Book Idea! If you win you'll receive accolades, a moderate amount of fame, high praise and tribute. Just think up something silly, funny, clever or outrageous. Sample titles to get you thinking: "Surgery for Amateurs", "The Rules for Pet Fish", and "Prozac in Poetry".
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