• Bendigo City Campus

• Full-Time – Face-to-Face – 12 months. Part-time enrolments available.

• • Journalism • Technical writing • Corporate writing • Writing in electronic media • Speechwriting • Educational writing • Copy editing • Structural editing and publishing • Freelance writer

• An interview by teaching staff, a literacy and numeracy assessment and presentation of a portfolio of writing. During the interview your ability to do the following will be assessed: • Write short works (approximately 1000 words) suitable for publication in any media. • Correct another's written work for grammar, punctuation and appropriate use of language. • Provide an objective critique of another's written work in a positive manner to assist re-writing. • Basic computer skills, especially word processing and using the web. • You should also be able to demonstrate a broad reading experience.

  Note: Applicants unable to demonstrate these requirements should think about applying for entry into our Certificate IV in Professional Writing and Editing..

YOUR COURSE

This course is designed to provide you with the skills and knowledge to work as a professional writer and editor.

This industry standard course has been designed to refine the skills developed in the Certificate IV in Professional Writing and Editing course or your personal or industry writing experience.

You will learn the skills required in the contemporary writing and editing industry which suit the needs of a range of writing industry professionals in a rapidly changing digital world.

To complement your creative and technical skills, you will graduate with employability skills, know how to deliver to a deadline and develop publishing and writing project-management skills.

You will develop a portfolio of your original written work and have an opportunity to be published in Painted Words, an annual, professionally produced and printed anthology of student writing.

YOUR SKILLS

Through hands-on experience you will develop the skills required to write a broad range of material.

Subjects covered include short story writing, journalism, public relations writing and corporate writing, writing for the new media, editing and proof-reading, digital-publishing, writing poetry and song lyrics, novel writing, non-fiction writing and screenwriting.

Literature and cultural studies include literary theory, theories of creativity, myths and symbols for writers and the history of writing/texts, popular fiction - science fiction, fantasy, general fiction, historical fiction, romance, horror, thrillers and more.

You will also learn the skills required to effectively use industry-standard applications such as Microsoft Word and specialist digital-publishing programmes such as Adobe’s InDesign and Photoshop

• Interview , literacy and numeracy assessment, presentation of a portfolio of writing

• Assessments may include practical written project-work and oral tasks.

• Your course is classroom centred in a studio-based environment.

Industry skills 2

Industry project

Fiction writing 2

Non-fiction writing 2

Content creation for new media 2

History of writing and literature 2

Writing for video, film and television 2

Poetry and lyric writing 2

Desktop publishing

Note: the units listed above include core and elective units. To achieve the qualification, you must successfully complete seven core units and six electives. Unit selection takes place during a pre-enrolment interview..

• Bendigo TAFE has an articulation agreement from the Diploma of Professional Writing and Editing into Deakin University’s Batchelor of Arts (Creative Writing) which includes a guaranteed place in with 8 credits (equivalent to one-year study).