Writing school training courses in Durham, NC (public, in-house or online)

This course provides an overview of the grant writing process, including grants versus contracts; the role of educational, governmental, and non-profit organizations in the grant process; information on available grant organizations; and use of the Internet in the grant process. Learn the grant process from initial identification of grant organizations to the request for solicitations and applications, application requirements, negotiated awards, grant administration, and finally grant closeout....

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This course introduces the techniques of legal research and writing. Emphasis is on locating, analyzing, applying, and updating sources of law; effective legal writing, including proper citation; and the use of electronic research methods. Upon completion, students should be able to perform legal research and writing assignments using techniques covered in the course.

This course provides students with the technical skills required to write basic Transact-SQL queries for Microsoft SQL Server 2008.

Objective :
After completing this course, students will be able to: - Describe the uses of and ways to execute the Transact-SQL language. - Use querying tool. - Write SELECT queries to retrieve data. - Group and summarize data by using Transact-SQL. - Join data from multiple tables. - Write queries that retrieve and modify data by using subqueries. - Mod...

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Writing Children’s Books school covers the following:
The World of Children’s Literature
Beginning the Writing Process
Writing Non-Fiction and Writing for Magazines
Developing a Writing Project Proposal
Creating Characters
Developing Plot
Saying It with Style
Writing the First Draft
Revising and Rewriting:
Editing and Proofreading
Submitting Your Manuscript

This course will build upon a general understanding of good writing and composition. Students will be introduced to internal research memoranda, points, authorities, and the Uniform System of Citation. Students will also be required to develop and demonstrate legal research skills and will become familiar with both law library research and electroinc research tools. These skills will be further added upon and utilized in Advanced Legal Research & Writing.