31 Free Online Writing Courses

 

 

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31 Free Online Writing Courses

via Freelance Writing Jobs by Deb on 8/29/09

If there's one area in which I've been remiss, it's in brushing up on grammar and usage. School was a very long time ago and my writing has gotten a bit…informal. I put off continuing education for some time thinking I'd go back to school once my son was in school, but other obligations prevented this. The good news is that I can still take some terrific free courses without having to leave my house.

Learning has never been easier. These writing courses can be done on your own time, at your convenience.

31 Free Online Writing Courses

1. The Writer's Helper: There are several free writing courses available at The Writer's Helper including Writing Verse for Children, Writing for the Web, and Make Your Price Sell.
2. Writer 2 Writer: Writer2Writer's e-Courses include: Writing for Profit: Break into Magazines, Outside the Square Fiction Workshop, Ebook Marketing Secrets, Short Story Writing and Copywriting Courses.
3. Creative Writing 101 - A Suite101 writing course featuring 8 lessons.
4. Writing What You Know: From Open Learn, this course features five reading and writing activities geared towards sharpening the senses and triggering the memory.
5. Start Writing Fiction – Another course from Open University.
6. What is Good Writing – An Open University course featuring a discussion of good writing and essay writing tips.
7. Writing and Reading the Essay: This writing course is part of M.I.T's open courseware program. The course was introduced in 2005 but is still relevant and helpful today.
8. The American Novel Since 1945 – From Open Yale, Yale University's open courseware series, this series of lessons  discusses many classics via audio, video and course materials.
9. Conquering the Comma – Part of Purdue University's open courseware project. (I'll definitely be giving this one a gander.)
10. Basic Grammar Skills -  A free writing seminar from Suite 101.
11. Cleaning Up Your Copy – Helps us to tighten up our sentences and write clean every time, from News University.
12. Proofreading Your Writing – Also from Purdue, this course teaches us how to spot errors in our writing.
13. Introduction to Writing Academic Prose – From Utah State University.
14. Covering Breaking News – From News University, good for those thinking about a career in journalism.
15. Advanced Writing Seminar - From M.I.T., this explores the different types of writing.
16. Foundations of Language and Communications - From Western Governors University, this course uses 8 modules to explore efficient reading and writing.
17. Targeting New Audiences: Finding Your Niche – This course from News University explores niche writing.
18. Technical Writing: An Introduction to Technical Writing from WikiUniversity.
19. The Writer's Workbench – 50 Tools You Can Use – Another course from News University, this one gives you all the resources you need to be a success.
20. Language and It's Structure: Part 1 Phonology and Part 2: Syntax from M.I.T.'s Open Courseware project.
21. Online English Courses – A list of free writing courses from 1-Language.com.
22. Business Development Courses from Kutztown Small Business Development Center – Includes courses about marketing, branding, and customer service.
23. Technology for Brand New Writers – From Utah Stat University – The course is from 2005 though, so I'm sure things have changed.
24. HTML Basics – Every web writer should at least know the basics.
25. English Grammar in Context – From Open University.
26. Form and Uses of Language – From Open University
27. The Syntax of Natural Language - From the University of Pennsylvania.
28. Finding Information in Modern Languages – From Open University.
29. Writing Challenges: From Warwick University.
30. Text as Property/Property as Text – From Connexions, discusses plagiarism and all that good stuff.
31. English Grammar and Mechanics – From Free-Ed.net

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