Writing & Speaking Workshops

Creative Writing

If you’ve got a vivid imagination, then this is the course for you. You’ll learn how to compose an original short story, with a special emphasis on character development and dialogue that will hold the reader’s interest. The focus is on creativity and writing style that will translate your unique skills to paper!

Journalism & the Art of Interviewing

Everyone knows that we live in a fast-paced, information-dependent culture – and we need skilled, entertaining personalities to provide us with what we need to know. Whether it’s serious news served up CNN style or a lighthearted late-night talk show, anchors, hosts and reporters have worked hard to ask compelling questions and create engaging interview styles. You’ll study classic ways to cover a story, interview a celebrity and interact with an audience. Stick with it and you could become one of the trusted faces we see on TV every night!

Public Speaking/Debating

Want to learn how to get your point across more effectively? Then this is the course for you. You’ll learn the fundamental building blocks of speaking and debating, including verbal and non-verbal techniques, delivery styles, audience analysis, topic selection and ways of overcoming pre-speech anxiety.

Writing to Get A’s

Sharpen your writing skills and ensure your ability to express your thoughts on the page. This course will help you develop proficiency in writing compositions, journals, reviews, features, fiction and nonfiction. You’ll focus on the fundamentals of grammar and punctuation, so that you can excel on your next high school term paper as well as your first college essay. Get the “write” idea!