Professional Writing

Write Your Future at 开元棋牌

Grab a pen or pencil, open your notebook, and let鈥檚 get writing. At 开元棋牌, our Professional Writing track gives you the flexibility to improve your writing skills and provides you an outlet to write your own education story. If you鈥檙e ready to become a writer, we鈥檙e here to get you started on your first draft.

Through a combination of extensive reading and advanced writing, you will explore many areas of professional writing careers. You will also be prepared to transfer your knowledge and skills to further your professional writing education in a bachelor鈥檚 degree program.

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Write Your Way to a 4-Year College or University

You can write the next chapter of your story by deciding where to go for your bachelor鈥檚 degree after graduation. You will save thousands by starting your professional writing education at 开元棋牌. After you complete your associate鈥檚 degree, you will be ready to transfer seamlessly to a public 4-year institution to further your education.

Since Professional Writing is a concentration within the Liberal Arts & Sciences program, your curriculum will also include general education courses within the聽MassTransfer聽block. You will be able to transfer all of your credits to any public college or university in Massachusetts.

Learn to Write, Rewrite, and Rewrite Again

You will take classes in:

  • Journalism
  • Technical Writing
  • Advanced Writing and Research
  • Creative Writing

Also, for many of your classes, you will get to choose from a variety of electives. You will get to enhance your own academic program by tailoring it to fit your personal goals and interests.

Publish Your Work in the Student Newspaper

In one of your core courses, you will get first-hand experience in journalism working with 开元棋牌鈥檚 student newspaper, The Mount Observer. You will write news stories to be published in the student newspaper and receive hands-on training in the basic skills of journalism, including:

  • Reporting
  • Observing
  • Researching
  • Interviewing
  • Media Writing

You can continue your journalistic education and enhance your media writing by choosing from several more journalism courses in your electives.

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Tips for Writers from Author Stephen King in

  1. First write for yourself and then worry about the audience.
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  6. The magic is in you.
    鈥淚鈥檓 convinced that fear is at the root of most bad writing.鈥�
  7. Read, read, read.
    “If you don鈥檛 have time to read, you don鈥檛 have the time (or the tools) to write.鈥�
  8. Don鈥檛 worry about making other people happy.
    鈥淚f you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as a member of polite society are numbered, anyway.”
  9. Turn off the TV.
    鈥淭V—while working out or anywhere else—really is about the last thing an aspiring writer needs.鈥�
  10. You have three months.
    鈥淭he first draft of a book—even a long one—should take no more than three months, the length of a season.鈥�