Creative Writing Diploma Level 3
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I utilized Oxbridge Home Learning for a course on Creative Writing and observed it to be brief and moving. It was carefully conceived and aptly paced without hustling ahead or suffocating you in detail. I would prescribe this course to anybody.
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Vocational qualification
Online
Description
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Type
Vocational qualification
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Methodology
Online
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Class hours
100h
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Duration
6 Months
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Start date
Different dates available
This course will help you to explore your writing and find ways to improve it. The course includes writing exercises and assignments that you will submit to your tutor.
Study Something You Love In Your Own Time with Oxbridge Home Learnings' Creative Writing Diploma. This course has been developed to give you the skills to create your own literary works, both factual and fictional.
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About this course
On this course you will discover:
Different texts and genres.
Different styles of writing.
How to edit and importantly how to get published!
Creative writing is one of the most enjoyable past-times and whether you are writing just for enjoyment or because you want to make it a career
You don't need any prior skills in the subject area to start this course.
At the end of this course successful learners will be awarded a formal certificate of achievement by NCFE.
Reviews
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I utilized Oxbridge Home Learning for a course on Creative Writing and observed it to be brief and moving. It was carefully conceived and aptly paced without hustling ahead or suffocating you in detail. I would prescribe this course to anybody.
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Recommended
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Subjects
- Conflict
- Market
- Creative Writing
- Radio
- Writing
- Poems
- Poetry
- Play
- Story Writing
- Writing for children
- Writing Skills
- Scriptwriting
- Short Story
- Publication
- Novel
- Manuscript
- Life writing
- Getting published
- Writing calendar
Course programme
- Understand the reasons for writing
- Understand the experience of writing
- Understand when you write
- Understand the different types of genres associated with creative writing
- Understand the different types of sub-genres associated with creative writing
- Understand the meaning of conflict within creative writing
- Understand the term ‘critical analysis’ as it applies to creative writing
- Understand writing in the first, second and third person
- Understand the term ‘writing style’
- Understand the nature and purpose of dialogue
- Be able to create a believable character
- Understand the genre of the short story
- Understand the elements of the short story
- Be able to write a short story
- Understand what poetry is
- Understand both rhyming verse and free verse
- Be able to write poems in a number of forms, for example, a sonnet
- Understand the skills needed to write for radio
- Be able to write a short story for radio
- Be able to write a poem for radio
- Understand the structure of a radio feature
- Understand the skills needed to write a novel
- Understand the importance of location/s in a novel
- Be able to plot a novel
- Understand the genre of life writing
- Understand the sub-genre of the biography
- Able to plot a biography
- Understand the genre of writing for children.
- Be able to write a poem for children.
- Be able to write a short story for children
- Understand the requirements of non-fiction writing
- Understand what journalism is
- Be able to write a news story
- Understand the skills needed to write a play
- Understand the different script layouts
- Be able to write a script.
- Understand the editing process.
- Understand the importance of proof reading
- Edit your work
- Understand the different types of publishing
- Be able to prepare a manuscript for publication
- Be able to market your work
- Be able to motivate yourself to write
- Be able to plan your writing calendar
- Be able to understand the support available to writers.
Each unit is followed by a written tutor marked assignment (TMA), which is submitted and then marked by your tutor. You will not be required to take an external exam.
Creative Writing Diploma Level 3