The Exciting Writing Foundation Course was designed for beginner writers. The working environment was calculated to enable all students to contribute fully without fear of embarrassment.

Click here to see work by foundation course students.

Click here for a selection of comments by students who attended the course.

The topic sheets distributed to students during the Exciting Writing Foundation Course were as follows:

• Ideas and how to generate them
• The effects of good writing on readers/listeners and what the writer must to do to create these effects
• What Makes a Good Sentence? (in the context of a piece of creative writing)
• What makes a good speech?
  What makes good dialogue?
• What is the difference between verse and poetry?
  What benefits may be derived by writing in verse rather than prose?
• What makes good characters?
• What makes good descriptive/narrative text?
• The importance of plot and what makes a good plot?
• Making criticism effective (from the writer's point of view)

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