Creative Writing Skills

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ISBN 9780190703974
Category(s) Extended Training Course
Description

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.

 

What will I get?

  • Simplified techniques to help your students write more effectively
  • Hands-on classroom activities
  • Certificate of completion
  • Course handouts
 
 
The course structure is given below:
 

Module 1

Module 2

Module 3

Module 4

 

Descriptive Writing

 

Narrative Writing

 

Persuasive Writing

 

Expository Writing

Introduction/Setting

Unusual beginnings

Using reasoning and logic

Framing topic sentences

Grammar and vocabulary techniques

Plot/characters/ conflicts-transitions

Structuring examples and evidence

Transitions between paragraphs- connectives

Figurative language techniques

Strong adjectives/ adverbs

Rhetorical language

Presenting facts and opinion

 

Multi-sensory tools

 

Resolution/conclusion

 

Eliciting vocabulary

Techniques for clarity and precision in writing

 

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

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