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Writing for the Web and Digital Media
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Takes a deep dive into writing for the web and digital media. Understand how people read online, and the important role content plays in a visitor's interactions with a website. Get tips, tools and best practices for writing for the web. This course is part of the UBC Micro-certificate in Writing Skills for Digital Content.
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Writing Well for Business
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Learn how to write informative and persuasive documents for the workplace that are clear, concise and professional. Practise analyzing, planning, drafting and revising business and technical documents. This course can be taken as part of the UBC Micro-certificate in Writing and Communication Skills for the Workplace: Business Communication or as a standalone course.
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Writing Well for Business: Advanced Topics
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Take on more complex communication scenarios in this advanced course. Gain strategies to write purposeful and effective emails, letters, reports, proposals and other complex documents. Learn how to analyze challenging employer and client communication tasks, and discover different approaches to addressing business, technical and non-technical audiences. This course can be taken as part of the UBC Micro-certificate in Writing and Communication Skills for the Workplace: Business Communication or as a standalone course.
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Writing Well: Advanced Grammar
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Go beyond the essentials of grammar in this advanced grammar course. Take on trickier, more challenging grammar rules so you can review writing with a critical eye, write for different contexts and express yourself clearly.
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Writing Well: Advanced Style
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Drawing inspiration and techniques from time-tested creative writers, learn how to transform, bend and sometimes break the rules of grammar and style to create attention-grabbing writing - no matter what genre or audience you're writing for. Formerly Writing Well: Process and Practice.
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Writing Well: Grammar
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Learn how to write well-constructed sentences and effective paragraphs. Topics include tips for devising clear, concise sentences, and avoiding common mistakes such as faulty parallelism, fragments, run-on sentences and dangling and misplaced modifiers. This course can be taken as part of the UBC Micro-certificate in Writing and Communication Skills for the Workplace: Grammar and Style or as a standalone course.
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Writing Well: Plain Language
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Learn how to analyze your readers’ needs and to plan and draft documents that meet those needs. Practise seven techniques for clear, memorable writing. This course can be taken as part of the UBC Micro-certificate in Writing and Communication Skills for the Workplace: Grammar and Style or as a standalone course.
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Writing Well: Storytelling
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Through a variety of engaging and practical exercises, learn how to write effective stories that capture the hearts of any audience. Topics include the art and science of storytelling, structures to help make your stories flow, as well as tips and tricks for ensuring that you're delivering your stories with maximum clarity and impact.
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Writing Well: Style
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Learn how to apply the fundamental rules of writing to produce text that is not only correct, but also coherent, emphatic and elegant. Practise revising text by analyzing and diagnosing common problems. Topics include clarity in complexity, balance and symmetry, and nuances of sentence length and rhythm. This course can be taken as part of the UBC Micro-certificate in Writing and Communication Skills for the Workplace: Grammar and Style or as a standalone course.
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French Summer Institute: Beginner 2 and Lower Intermediate
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Improve your French skills quickly in a one-, two- or three-week Summer Language Institute. Beginner 2 and Lower Intermediate are ideal if you already have experience with French through a conversational beginner course, or from your academic, personal or work life. Choose from online or in-person options.