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For Students and Professionals Course Description: No experience in Academic Writing! Do not Worry! In this course, students will learn about how to write academic assignments (Essay, Thesis, Dissertations, Research papers, Lab reports, Book reports, etc.) in the shortest possible time.

In this marketing and publishing class, new writers and recent authors will learn to market themselves, create an audience, promote their book, construct their author profile, learn to manipulate social media hubs and how to connect with prospect readers and buyers.  The session will start by allowing everyone to meet and greet and talk about...

Tableau is the leader in Gartner's magic quadrant for BI (Business Intelligence and Data Analytics). Get better insight into your data with our Tableau training. In this Tableau training class, you will quickly get up to speed with the Tableau terminology and build a solid foundation to start leveraging the power of Tableau with hands on real-world...

Tableau Advanced training course is intended for Tableau users who are already familiar with Tableau concepts, i.e., the creation of calculated fields, all chart options, and the basics for connecting to data including extracts. By the end of this advanced course, you will be familiar with LOD (Level of Detail) expressions, finding meaningful clusters...

Perhaps you’re near completion of a nonfiction book. Or perhaps you’ve just hatched an idea or begun roughing out a draft. Before you proceed further, you should know… Most nonfiction books are sold to publishing houses on the basis of a proposal—a 20 to 40-page document that pitches the book’s content and marketability and is supplemented...

WordPress is best known as a powerful, open-source blogging tool, but its simple, powerful set of web content management features, plug-ins and templates have made WordPress the most popular web publishing platform, with over 25 million users.  WordPress Fundamentals training will provide you with the practical experience necessary to design a...

Students aspiring to become entrepreneurs in the fashion industry examine the skills needed to conceive, finance, open, and operate a successful fashion business. Through collaborative research and hands-on practice, students learn the elements of opening a business and navigating the complexities of working with a team. They learn to create business...

Full Course Name: Hit Send: Publishing Short Nonfiction Level I: 4 Week Selling Seminar There are countless magazines, newspapers, and websites that need a continual supply of short nonfiction pieces—articles, essays, etc. And they need material on every subject under the sun. How do you get them to publish (and pay for) your work? You need to...

How do you write a good memoir? You apply the narrative techniques of fiction and poetry: you take the fascinating, messy raw material of your life and build a frame for it. You distill. You find a voice that’s all you but that also offers you flexibility, perspective and the right counterbalance to the story’s content. You tap into your emotions...

Learn to work with a retail buyer or become one yourself. This course is essential for managers, retail business owners, and manufacturers’ account representatives. Topics covered include profitability scrutiny, open to buys, initial and cumulative markup, shortages, sell-through, and sales to stock analysis. Students learn how to buy or communicate...

Proofreading Academy teaches modern proofreading and editing techniques for every situation. Whether you are a complete beginner or simply looking to sharpen your proofreading skills, our course can help you realise your potential. From correcting errors in spelling, grammar, and punctuation to dealing with different writing and referencing styles,...

Consider it the caviar of literature: tiny eggs with tremendous taste. Or the nitroglycerin: every drop explosive. Poetry's power has endured thousands of years, captivating the most passionate souls. If you hear mermaids singing or feel the winnowing wind or see the sun rising in ribbons, then you are one of these blissful few. To write excellent...

So you've got a manuscript you're happy with - now what? This online class will take you through the whole process from creation to post-publication.  You'll learn the basics about queries, agents, and the editorial process, as well as how to find like-minded writers and promote yourself and your work.  Most importantly: you'll learn tips...

Nonfiction—pieces that spring from the real world—is everywhere. Magazines, newspapers, books, blogs, websites. And nonfiction has grown more diverse and creative than ever, embracing all styles from straight to zany to lyrical, encompassing every topic imaginable from schoolyard memories to a trek in Nepal to the creation of the universe. Here...

Our Online Level I workshop is an introduction to The Writers Studio that brings together students from all over the U.S. and the world to explore the myriad possibilities of narrative in fiction and poetry. Every aspect of the workshop — the weekly typed chat, the posting of assignments and critiques, and informal discussion — takes place in...