Writing school training courses in Atlanta, GA (public, in-house or online)

Our Intensive English Program (IEP) offers more than 50 years of experience meeting the academic, professional, and social needs of international students from more than 100 countries. Our curriculum emphasizes preparing individuals for academic and professional success.

An analysis of historic and current trends in network and cable television comedy serves as a foundation for students to create original material, either in the comedy sketch format, the hour, or the half-hour situation comedy format.

A study of the traditional feature-length narrative screenplay. Students explore the principles of story creation, character development, plot construction, dialog, and visual storytelling as it applies to the three-act structure of feature films. Students pitch, develop their stories with a detailed beat outline, and then adapt that outline to a screenplay.

Through lectures, workshops and discussion, students will focus on the skills of news reporting and editing, including the ethical aspects involved in journalism. Students will discuss the media coverage of contemporary news stories, participate in group brainstorming meetings to generate story ideas, and experiment with workshop-style critique sessions.

A critical study of the genres of American travel writing and autobiography, students read seminal texts of each form spanning the 18th-20th centuries, including works by Benjamin Franklin, Mark Twain, Frederick Douglass, Zora Neale Hurston, Edith Wharton and Bill Bryson. The issues of genre, gender and representations of the self are explored, as are the conventions and blending of the boundaries separating these forms. Students write critical analyses of these texts as well as produce a quarte...

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