Online Freelance Writer Career Diploma Details

• Identify the stages in freelance writing and publication, including choosing a market, writing an engaging work, and submitting to prospective publishers/publications.
• Recognize appropriate research techniques for identifying and analyzing the best markets for your writing and to gain information when writing.
• Comprehend how research can develop and inform writing, and how research sources are appropriately cited.
• Critique and revise your own writing according to rules of grammar and style in order to create a professional end product.
• Demonstrate understanding of laws governing writing including copyright and trademark and maintaining careful records of business transactions, contracts, and expenses.
• Identify your qualifications for a specialized market based on your professional and life experience.

Objectives:

• Understand how to use your Student Portal.
• Access the Penn Foster Community and use it to find answers.
• Connect with Penn Foster on various social media sites.

Objectives:

• Identify staff-written and freelance articles.
• Market your freelance product.
• Submit a professional manuscript.
• Work with agents and editors.

Objectives:

• Gather ideas from other articles.
• Understand the difference between objective and subjective writing.
• Learn the essential elements of all objective articles.
• Discover how to recognize the most marketable types of fiction.
• Start a notebook or journal you’ll use to keep all of your writing projects.

Objectives:

• Learn how to distinguish connotation from denotation.
• Increase your vocabulary to use language effectively.
• Critique and revise your own writing.
• Write a short feature article.

Objectives:

• Get the basics about specialized markets and how to research markets for your articles.
• Write a query letter.
• Learn about copyright laws.
• Set up a home office.
• Keep accurate records of correspondence with editors and publishers, and tax receipts.

Objectives:

• Recognize the available specialized periodical indices.
• Use professional directories to locate expert sources.
• Understand how to contact recognized experts for information and interviews.
• Search the Internet, library, the Reader’s Guide to Periodical Literature, and other resources.