• Level 5
  • 20 Credits
  • 0.1667 EFTS
  • Course duration: 16 weeks
  • Workload - Approximately 13 hours per week
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This online course will help novice writers to produce clear and effective web copy for a specified purpose and audience. You will gain the skills needed to write and edit text for websites, blogs and social media platforms (e.g. Facebook, Twitter).

When you complete this course you will be able to:

  • understand the attributes of the World Wide Web as a communication medium and the implications of these for a writer of web content
  • evaluate the quality of web writing samples and recognise how to revise and edit them
  • identify and apply principles and techniques of effective web writing
  • write text appropriate for publication on websites, blogs and social media platforms.

Assessment

This course is 100% internally assessed.

Textbooks

No textbooks are needed for this course.

Computer and online access

This course is delivered online. This means you will access all of the course content online. For online learning you need to have regular access to a computer or device, and reliable internet.

How to enrol

Before enrolling in this course you need to:

  • choose the qualification you will study the course under
  • check the order that courses in the qualification should be studied in the Qualification Structure table. This is in the Choose courses and apply tab on the qualification page.

How to apply

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