Book now Monday 23 March 2015
We can't legally offer courses in bribery and blackmail, but we can teach you the next best way to get your point across. This one-day masterclass in copywriting isn't a course in the hard sell, but simply in knowing how to make your message clear, concise, memorable, and even entertaining. Through a range of practical exercises, you'll learn how to spot relatable stories in a mass of dry facts, how to target a message to a specific audience, how to craft clickable headlines and most importantly, how to make yourself understood.
This course is for you if...
- You run a website and want to give your content a more professional edge
- You want to improve the quality of campaigning or marketing materials or press releases
- You'd like to know about best practice for writing for a variety of audiences
Course description
This course is for anyone interested in learning how to improve their commercial writing, whether it's for websites, advertising, press releases, newsletters or posters about a lost cat. It mixes seminars with practical exercises to help attendees produce copy which suits their own needs.
- Making engaging stories out of the driest facts, or finding hooks for your copy in the news
- Boiling your story down to the essentials
- Different structures and styles for web copy, product descriptions, ad copy, social media etc
- The essential components: headlines, standfirsts, subheads, captions, furniture
- The importance of first and last sentences
- How to read your audience, and tailor your content to them
- Tone and language: how to establish a readable, memorable style
- When (and when not) to use humour
- The best policy: maintaining the trust of your audience
Tutor profile
Eddy Lawrence is a copywriter at the Guardian with over 20 years of writing and editing experience. He has written for and edited publications including The Face, Select, Melody Maker and Jack, and even some which are still going, such as Q, NME, Shortlist and the Guardian. He has also worked on the Glastonbury festival daily paper, and taught journalism as part of the Time Out Trashed outreach project during his six years as Music Editor for Time Out.
Book now Monday 23 March 2015
Details
Date: Monday 23 March 2015
Times: 10am-4pm. Check-in begins 30 minutes before the start time.
Location: The Guardian, Kings Place, 90 York Way, London N1 9GU
Price: £249 (includes VAT, booking fee, lunch and refreshments)
Event capacity: 18
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Returns policy
Tickets may be refunded if you contact us at least 14 days before the course start date. Please see our terms and conditions for more information on our refund policy.
