Advanced Writing Skills

Advanced Writing Skills—Perfecting Your Prose provides guidance for students wishing to enhance their writing proficiency by learning techniques for organizing thoughts into cohesive content for personal use, academic preparation, or for publication of magazine articles or books. The focus of the course centers on conceptualizing topics, writing clearly and succinctly, editing, revising, proofreading, and using various literary devices such as analogies and metaphors.

Students are given an invaluable Reading and Reference List for Writers as well as a collection of Writers Conferences, Workshops, and Retreats to help in their continual quest for writing excellence. (Note: The Reading and Reference List for Writers presents suggested supplemental reading and is not a requirement for the course.) Other resources such as Writer’s Digest, Writers Weekly, Poet & Writers, et al. are also revealed.

Note: This course is now taught by a new instructor, Erin Sorensen. Biography to follow.

Schedule for the Fall 2008 Semester

Title: Advanced Writing Skills—Perfecting Your Prose

Dates: TBA

Times: 6:30 P.M.–8:30 P.M.

Where: UNO Lakefront Campus

Registration: Pre-register by contacting the University of New Orleans Metropolitan College or by calling 504-280-7100.

Tuition: Cost of this eight-session course is $90, plus $16.30 for the course text (purchased from the instructor the first day of class).

Materials Provided: A Reading and Reference List for Writers (119KB) and list of Writers Conferences and Workshops (80KB) are downloadable here from this site.

Course Text: Perfecting Your Prose—A Guide to Improved Writing. This book may be purchased from the instructor on the first day of class, or purchased in advance from this site.