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Description

One of the high-rated writing courses on Udemy
4.77
out of 5 all time student rating (95.4%)
35
 5-Star reviews
Taught by a
UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR
, Dr. Duncan Koerber
What students say...
"Excellent--I rate it ten stars out of five."

Julie Heyer, Udemy Student
"Take this course - improve your writing — end of story!"

James Cochrane, Udemy Student
"The content is fantastic."
  —
Chris Lewis, Udemy Student
"Information that you can apply right away."

Kim Ruby, Udemy Student
"I can tell he's passionate about his work and he shows it throughout the lessons."

Ana, Udemy Student
"I recommend this course to anyone who wants to improve their writing."

Sheverley Maye, Udemy Student
"This is an especially useful and remarkably good course." 

Avrohom Meir Greenhut,
Udemy Student
"The assignments forced me to become more objective and build better habits."

Marla Morris, Udemy Student 
"The explanation of parallelism and its usage was simply amazing."

Bindu Midha, Udemy Student
Do you want to impress
employers, editors, or online readers
with your writing?
Do you want to get
A grades
on term papers and essays?
Do you want to become a good writer – in
creative non-fiction, journalism, fiction, or academic writing
– as quickly as possible?
The secret to this writing success is
not
studying 200 grammar and style points in the writing textbooks. 
Instead, this course – designed by an experienced university professor and published author with Oxford University Press – shows you the 
sentence-level lessons
you need to know to write well.
These are the
7 most common problems
found in people’s writing.
These problems most likely lurk – like weeds – in your writing right now.   
If you complete the
lessons and exercises
honestly and fully as outlined in this course, then your writing will improve in just a few weeks of intensive study. If you do not find this course helpful, you may request a refund within 30 days, no questions asked.     
These lessons and exercises were designed and tested at the University of Toronto and York University with thousands of undergraduate students. Many students improved their grades by
a whole grade category
after completing these lessons, finding that this short list of key lessons provides clarity. Students have applied these lessons in the workplace to great success. 
Join now and complete this course to produce writing that gets you the job, earns you an A grade, lands you a writing contract, or impresses that magazine or newspaper editor.   
In this comprehensive course, I will help you:
See
sentences more objectively;
Understand
the factors that interfere with communication;
Remove
dead language – such as dead verbs and weak nouns – from your writing;
Avoid
embarrassing clichés;
Write
more clear, direct, and precise sentences;
Use
adjectives and adverbs more carefully, in targeted ways;
Write
poetically and rhythmically with parallelism and sentence variation;
Add
detail to your writing;
Become
an original writer, not a copy.
Your writing transformation awaits...
Who this course is for:
This course is primarily for beginning writers or intermediate writers looking to target trouble spots in their writing.

What you'll learn

Write clear, precise, and direct prose

Find alternative ways of constructing sentences

Communicate better with readers

Avoid clichéd words and phrases

Develop greater command of the English language

Requirements

  • You will need a copy of Adobe XD 2019 or above. A free trial can be downloaded from Adobe.
  • No previous design experience is needed.
  • No previous Adobe XD skills are needed.

Course Content

27 sections • 95 lectures
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1-Welcome to the Course!
2
1.1-Welcome from the Instructor
1.2-How to Make the Most of this Course
2-Writing Clearly for Publications, Work, and School
8
2.1-Economy Introduction
2.2-Redundancy
2.3-Phoney Intensifiers
2.4-Stretchers
2.5-Thickeners
2.6-Answers to Some Questions
2.7-Exercise #1
2.8-Exercise #2
3-How Dead Verbs Are Killing Your Writing
6
3.1-Verbs Introduction
3.2-Concrete Verbs
3.3-Weak Verbs
3.4-Dead Verbs
3.5-The Consequences of Dead Verbs
3.6-Exercise #3
4-Become an Active Writer
6
4.1-Active Voice Introduction
4.2-Active Voice
4.3-Passive Voice
4.4-The Morality of Passive Voice
4.5-Passive Voice Exceptions
4.6-Exercise #4
5-Create Pictures in Your Writing with Strong Nouns
6
5.1-Nouns Introduction
5.2-Nouns
5.3-Weak Nouns
5.4-Pronouns
5.5-When Pronouns Go Wrong
5.6-Exercise #5
6-How to be an Original Writer and Avoid Clichés
7
6.1-Original Writing Introduction
6.2-Clichés
6.3-Why Do People Use Clichés?
6.4-When It's Okay to Use a Cliché
6.5-Being Original
6.6-Exercise #6
6.7-Exercise #7
7-Prevent Train Wreck Sentences with Parallelism
11
7.1-Parallelism Introduction
7.2-Surface and Under the Surface Parallelism
7.3-Verb Series
7.4-Noun Series
7.5-Adjective Series
7.6-Adverb Series
7.7-Preposition Series
7.8-Multiple Element Series
7.9-Parallelism Conclusion
7.10-Exercise #8
7.11-Exercise #9
8-Freshen your Sentences with Patterns and Length Variation
6
8.1-Sentence Variation Principles
8.2-Sentence Patterns
8.3-Short Sentences
8.4-Long Sentences
8.5-The Variation of Long and Short for Effect
8.6-Exercise #10
9-Bonus Lecture
1
9.1-Big Discounts on My Other Courses