Writing school training courses in Columbia, SC (public, in-house or online)

Writing and editing for Web sites are now core skills for any writer. Get up to speed in a small class with real-world examples designed for this style of writing and editing. This class is for people with little or no online/writing experience. Topics include:
â—?The difference between print and Web writing
â—?What to know before you start writing
â—?How to shorten and summarize text
â—?Building blocks: writing a paragraph for the Web

Create an exceptional résumé that helps you compete successfully for the job you want. Whether you’re revising your résumé or starting from scratch, we’ll help you identify and promote your most marketable skills and strengths. We’ll "weigh" every word and evaluate and improve every element, including content, flow, tone, typography, layout, and overall presentation. Through individual and group exercises, examples, critiques, and dozens of guidelines, you’ll find o...

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Technical writers are often responsible for helping people use information. Learn how to choose what information to include in documents and to mold the information so it becomes easy to use. You will:
â—?Learn steps that speed up the writing process
â—?Build sentence, paragraph, section, and document structures that allow readers to access information quickly
â—?Learn techniques for producing clear, precise prose
â—?Display text in a way that leads to action

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Learn how to tackle the most challenging of all writing tasks: the government proposal. Designed for proposal novices at any level of writing ability, this course explains the unique features of writing for government proposals and writing to the exact requirements to capture government business. You’ll learn techniques for scheduling and managing the proposal development process, as well as strategies for ensuring compliance and clarity. Topics include how to:
â—¦Initial proposal evaluation a...

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Writing for newsletters and other news periodicals should be brief and to the point. Writing concise, interesting articles can be more challenging than writing longer stories. Why? It’s hard to "write short" without being superficial or even misleading. Recent research shows that the traditional "pyramid" style of news writing is not necessarily the most effective. Topics include:
â—?New, more forceful reporting techniques
â—?The 12 most common grammatical and punc...

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