Creative Writing Skills
Creative Writing Skills – online professional development course
This online course will help teachers learn how to teach creative writing to primary and secondary classes. Step-by-step guidance for descriptive, narrative, persuasive and expository writing will be provided along with classroom activities and student-engagement techniques.
The course is 4 weeks long and will run from 15 July to 7 August 2024. Each session will be two hours long from 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm on Mondays and Wednesdays. The price per participant is PKR 6,000. For multiple registrations (2 or more teachers from a school), the price is discounted to PKR 4500.
Continue your professional development with our extended training course on Creative Writing Skills. This 4-module course will take you through a step-by-step approach to creative writing techniques to use in the classroom. The course will help you develop your students' fluency, expression, and precision in writing.
The course structure is given below:
Primary and secondary English language teachers
The course will be a month long, two sessions each week for four weeks.
The sessions will be 2 hours long and will be held twice a week, Mondays and Wednesdays 3 pm - 5 pm
PKR 6000 for the whole course
Are there any discounts available?
For school registering two or more teachers: PKR 4500 per teacher
- Simplified techniques to help your students write more effectively
- Hands-on classroom activities
- Certificate of completion
- Course handouts
MODULE 1
Descriptive writing
- Establishing a setting and generating ideas
- The triple adjective technique
- Vocabulary techniques
- Using the five senses to create imagery
- How to use figurative language in descriptive writing
MODULE 2
Narrative writing
- Opening: unusual introductions
- PowerfuI adjectives and adverbs
- Plot, characters, and details of events
- Story development techniques and conclusion
MODULE 3
Persuasive writing
- Structured reasoning and logic
- Using examples, analysis, and evidence
- Exaggeration and rhetoric
- Emotive language use
MODULE 4
Expository writing
- Framing a topic sentence
- Transitions between paragraphs - connectives
- Using evidence and examples
- Presenting facts and opinions
- Structuring paragraphs - flow of ideas
Facilitator
Neda Mulji
Neda Mulji is working with OUP as Senior Manager, Professional Development and is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, UK. Before joining OUP, Neda taught Communication Skills and English courses for several years as a university lecturer in Dubai. She has a BSc (Hons.) from LUMS, MA in Postcolonial Studies – Literature and Culture from Goldsmiths, University of London, a Cambridge Certificate of English Language Teaching to Adults (CELTA) and a Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education (PGC-HE) from Middlesex University. Neda writes regularly for Dawn on topics in education and has written a book on parenting, titled ‘The Love Connection’, published by Austin Macauley, UK. She has also written a children’s story called ‘Little Jimmy’, published by OUP.
Terms and Conditions
- The course material remains OUPP's property to be used as deemed fit. Teachers will receive handouts for reference.
- The registration fee, once paid, is non-refundable regardless of attendance by the participant. Cancellations will not be accommodated.
- Discounts offered to schools for multiple registrations is at the discretion of OUPP management.
- Oxford University Press Pakistan reserves the right to modify presenters and course content.
For more information, email us at pd.pk@oup.com.
| ISBN | 9780190703974 |
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