Journalism Skills: Advanced style

Course Overview

This workshop is geared to delegates' own writing, with detailed analysis of copy.

Audience

Highly-experienced journalists, as well as those who have attended our Sharpening Your Writing Style workshop and want to assess their progress.

Not for

Inexperienced writers.

Course Outline

• A look at a variety of styles in news and features for different readerships
• Analysis of your use of words and sentence length
• Using quotes effectively
• The power of adjectives and adverbs - and when to avoid them
• When you can break the rules
• Self-editing
• a 12-point checklist to make your writing sparkle