Overview

This course gives you the opportunity to develop the writing skills necessary to craft publishable texts and is designed to improve your critical writing at work.

You will explore voice and style by examining works from a range of writers in genres such as biography, memoir, essay, case study, and short story fiction, linking the works to your own practice.

How you’ll benefit

The main ways you will benefit from taking the course:

• Improve your writing practice
• Gain awareness of ‘voice’ in your writing
• Get insight into how accomplished writers use language and communicate their ideas.

How you’ll learn

There will be several written specific activities you will be expected to undertake.

The course will be assessed based on a coursework essay, where you will be tasked with writing 2,000 words on how to improve an aspect of your workplace practice. The essay will model a future published work in the form of a journal article, blog piece, conference paper or book proposal.