32 Course Programs in Composition Studies 2024

Creative storytelling and creative writing courses as children, it is through stories we begin to learn how the world works – and that is why we are all so strongly attracted to them. Stories can invite us into an unthinkable reality, they help us learn from the past or even see the future, they offer archetypes of good and evil and can very well play with our imagination as well as logic. A good story can sell everything – not only does this apply to books and movies, but also to everything we do in our professional and personal life. We need a story to design a strong presentation, create an effective post for social media, manage an interview, deliver a business pitch, or write an academic essay.

Learn how to craft accurate, engaging, and impactful pieces of writing for the business context. Professional Communication: Business Writing and Storytelling is an online short course from The Economist designed to help business professionals attract and address broad audiences across various written formats. Based on the newspaper’s editorial practice, this six-week course offers a self-reflective journey through the craft and purpose of writing and storytelling, equipping you with the confidence to communicate with partners and employees. An accessible “tools not rules” approach to grammar unlocks practical skills for constructing cohesive sentences and paragraphs and shows how elements such as word choice, punctuation, and structure can maximize impact and clarity. You’ll also explore ways to source information accurately, learn to strengthen arguments with data visualisations and uncover methods for constructive and collaborative editing.

The Writing Studies minor is a home for students who believe that writing can be an integral part of their personal, professional, and academic success. Writing Studies is a research-based, interdisciplinary field that includes the study of digital media, professional and technical writing, academic, civic, and cultural rhetorics, and the theory and practice of writing pedagogy. 

The Writing courses at King’s help students from all disciplines develop academic literacies, critical thinking skills, and their own distinct voices. First-year Writing courses (Writing 1020F/G or 1002F/G and 1022F/G) are a great starting point, no matter where your academic journey takes you. They help you put your critical thinking skills to good use, and to understand how academic research and writing are done across the disciplines.

Improve your English writing skills and learn how to express yourself clearly and beautifully with this free course.

Gain critical communication skills in writing and public speaking with this introduction to American political rhetoric.

The Humanities Korea (HK) Research Center of the Institute of Buddhist Culture at Geumgang University held a Sans Crit Lecture in Gyeryong City, Chungcheongnam-do to expand communication with citizens and the foundation of humanities. In the beginner's class, he lectured on Sanskrit grammar, and in the intermediate class, he read Chapter 4 of Hatha Yoga Pradipika. In this civic lecture, 12 people from Chungnam, Jeonbuk, and metropolitan areas, including the general public, doctors, and professors, participated, and 9 of them completed the 8-week course.

Improve your academic English skills further, learning about critical analysis, using sources, avoiding plagiarism and more.

This course is for anyone who wants to tell powerful, clearly organized stories — on deadline. Whether you write breaking news alerts, meeting summaries, scientific papers, or business plans, you will come away from this four-week, intensive online course with the tools you need to deliver what your audience wants.

Creative nonfiction is diverse and multifaceted, and this course will look at many writing concepts with a focus on memoir, personal narrative, and travel narrative. Students will study and employ creative writing techniques such as characterization, descriptive detail, juxtaposition, metaphor, allegory, Imagery, and synecdoche.

How do you turn your idea for a novel into a novel? The answer may not be an exact science, but most published authors would point to the fundamentals of storytelling: character development and dramatic structure. As the basis of a good story, these two elements of fiction are further shaped by techniques like dialogue, pacing, and scene building to bring your idea to life on the page. But having all the moving pieces to a good story only equates to a first draft. To truly create publishable work, you must add complexity to your fiction and then learn the process of revision.

This is a course for anyone interested in developing their writing and turning it into a performance.

This course is designed for science students developing their research skills working on research projects for a principal investigator; specifically, this course will improve the students’ writing ability and introduce them to writing for the scientific community.

The Postgraduate Preparation Programme (PPP) is a one trimester, non-award programme for students who have a tertiary qualification but who do not qualify for direct entry into a Master Degree at Curtin University. Completion of the PPP ensures students direct entry into the Curtin College Graduate Certificate programme. The PPP consist of 4 pre-postgraduate units that focus on academic communication, intercultural issues and introductory research skills in preparation for postgraduate studies.

At the end of this training, participants will be able to make their writing short, clear and impactful; present their ideas in ways that inspire the reader to action; to adapt their style and vocabulary to the recipients.