Your career as a writer and editor starts here!
Your course
The Diploma of Professional Writing and Editing (CUA50118) is a new nationally accredited course developed to provide you with the skills and knowledge you need to work as a professional writer and editor in the creative and publishing industries.
- Do you have unpublished writing youd like to see in print or as an ebook?
- Do you want to know how to edit and present your work so it can be published?
This industry-standard course refines the skills developed in the Certificate IV in Professional Writing and Editing course or developed by you in your personal or industry writing experience.
You will further develop the expertise required by writers and editors in the contemporary writing and editing industry in a digital world.
The course is designed to suit the needs of a range of writers:
- creative writers,
- non-fiction writers,
- PR writers,
- journalists,
- proof readers,
- editors,
- fiction writers,
- screenwriters,
- novelists,
- short-story authors, and
- writers in new-media.
To complement your creative and technical skills, you will graduate with employability skills, know how to deliver to a deadline, and manage a project.
You will also 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.
Digital skills
Through hands-on experience, you will learn industry-standard applications like Word, InDesign, Acrobat and Photoshop.