Online Course – Certified Professional Internship in Writing and Editing from the University of Michigan

Learn the mechanics and strategy of effective communication with writing, editing, and persuasion.

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קורס אונליין - התמחות מקצועית מוסמכת בכתיבה ועריכה של אוניברסיטת מישיגן

Professional Certificate

Beginners

No prior knowledge required

Time to complete the course

7-day free trial

No unnecessary risks

Skills you will acquire in the course

  • How to organize a complex set of information in an easy-to-read way
  • How to give and receive quality feedback
  • How to consistently meet deadlines

What you will learn in the course

Courses for which the course is suitable

  • Project managers
  • Content writers
  • Marketing people
  • Human Resources Managers
  • Teachers and instructors
  • Business consultants
  • Salespeople
  • Content managers
  • Lawyers
  • Researchers
  • Media people
  • Team managers

Internship – 4-part course series

Perhaps the most important thing students and professionals can do to upgrade their effectiveness is to adopt the following advice: It pays to be good with words.

This course series focuses on the writing side of this recommendation. The skills it focuses on include:

  • How to organize a complex set of information in an easy-to-read way
  • How to give and receive quality feedback
  • How to consistently meet deadlines

A portion of Professor Berry’s proceeds from this course will benefit the COVID-19 relief efforts of Ozone House, a shelter for homeless youth in southern Michigan where he regularly conducts job training workshops. These proceeds come from the purchase of the certificate version of the course. The course remains free for anyone interested in viewing only.

Details of the courses that make up the specialization

Writing and editing: choosing words and creating sentences

Course 1
20 hours
4.7 (1,908 ratings)

What will you learn?

  • Learn how the words you choose will influence people’s decisions
  • Use syntax strategically
  • Write with originality and create sentences that no one else can write.
  • Organize complex information in an easy-to-read manner

Skills you will gain

  • creativity
  • Time management
  • persuasion
  • writing
  • editing

Writing and Editing: Structure and Organization

Course 2
15 hours
4.7 (532 ratings)

What will you learn?

  • Learn how structure can be used to create content
  • Place compatible ideas within compatible structures
  • Add Nuance to Your Writing Using Endiplosis
  • Identify and evaluate when to use sentences of varying lengths

Writing and Editing: Planning

Course 3
13 hours
4.8 (344 ratings)

What will you learn?

  • Understanding and Dealing with the Cost of Ideals Perfect Writing
  • Perform a “pre-mortem” before starting a writing draft
  • Identify summaries and scenes
  • Apply the principles of “nothing else” and “need to know”

Writing and Editing: Proofreading

Course 4
13 hours
4.8 (364 ratings)

What will you learn?

  • Learn how to be a better reader of your own writing
  • Apply the EDIT frame
  • Identify irrelevant information
  • Create multiple ways to communicate the same data

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