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Write like the pros!

How to write great feature articles

Can't come to us for a writing class? Brings professional writer and mentor Marshall Cook to you via e-mail with instruction, instant feedback, fun mini-exercises, and specific critiques on your writing. This class will teach students to organize and write articles that will be publishable in today's mass media. Seven units cover the seven basic kinds of features, discovering your slant, writing brilliant leads, personal profiles, columns, and how-to articles. Work at your own pace. You will earn 1.0 Continuing Education Units (CEUs), (1.3 CEUs if you sign up for the critique option), when you complete this online writing course. Work at your own pace and take up to a year to finish.

Your instructor:

Marshall Cook is a professor, freelance writer, and nonfiction book and novel author.

He has published hundreds of articles in national and international magazines and has authored 20 nonfiction books (including Freeing Your Creativity from Writer's Digest Books) and three novels. He also edits Creativity Connection, a newsletter for writers and independent publishers.

As a professor for the University of Wisconsin—Madison, he teaches workshops, classes, and online courses on writing and publishing.

For for more information contact Marshall Cook at mcook@dcs.wisc.edu or 608-262-4911.

Student comments:

"I went from cold turkey (knowing very little) to crowing rooster (publishing the very first two [feature articles] I ever tried)."

Costs:

Sign up at any time. Registering for $135 includes instruction, e-mail correspondence, and a free issue of the Creativity Connection newsletter by request. Registering for $175 includes all of the above plus individual critiques of a profile, a column and a how-to article.

Your contact:

Your contact for more information about How to Write Great Feature Articles is Marshall J. Cook. 608-262-4911, mcook@dcs.wisc.edu.

Also of interest:

The same writing staff that bring you these great online classes also provide individualized writing critique services. Learn more by visiting our writing critique services Web page. The Writing News

 

Receive the Writing News, our free e-mail newsletter. If you subscribe, then 4-5 times a year you will receive from the Department of Liberal Studies and the Arts a detailed e-mail with information about our upcoming writing programs as well as news about student achievements, new programs, and opportunities for writers. To subscribe send a blank e-mail message to: join-writing-news@lists.wisc.edu.

If you'd like a free copy of the newsletter, Creativity Connection, "The Writer's Quarterly Encouragement," please e-mail Marshall Cook and include your postal address.

More distance education: Independent Learning journalism and writing courses are another option for distance education through University of Wisconsin-Extension. Most courses are available for college or high-school credit.

 

How to register

Telephone: Call 608-262-2451 to register. Our phone is answered M-F, 7:00 am-4:30 pm Central Time. At other times please leave a message, and we will return your call. If you have other questions, call toll-free 1-877-336-7836.

Online: Register now online with our secure server.

E-mail: Send your name and contact information to LSAonline@dcs.wisc.edu and we will respond as soon as possible to assist you with registration.

Fax: Print and fax our registration form.

Mail: Print and mail our registration form.

 

 

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