Certificate IV in Professional Writing and Editing | CUA40118
The Certificate IV in Professional Writing and Editing (CUA40118) is a new nationally accredited course.
It is designed to provide you with the skills and knowledge to write and edit professionally.
- Do you have unpublished writing you’d like to see in print or as an ebook?
- Do you want to learn how to edit so your work can be published?
This industry standard course has been designed to introduce participants to the skills required in the contemporary writing and editing industry. It will suit the needs of people seeking a career as a writing industry professional.
To complement your creative and technical skills, you will graduate with employability skills, know how to deliver to a deadline, and develop project management skills.
You will also develop a portfolio of your original written work and have an opportunity to be published in Painted Words, an annual, professionally produced and printed anthology of student writing.
Digital skills
Through hands-on experience, you will develop the foundation skills required to use industry-standard applications such as Microsoft Word and digital-publishing programs such as Adobe’s InDesign, Acrobat and Photoshop to prepare you for work in the rapidly changing digital world.
When you graduate, you’ll be equipped to write and edit in various fields and you’ll have the confidence to write in an engaging style with accuracy and flair.
Your career as a writer and editor starts here!
Do you have unpublished writing you don’t know what to do with? Do you want to know how to properly edit and present your work to get it published? This industry standard course has been designed to introduce participants to the skills required in the contemporary writing and editing industry and will suit the needs of a range of writing industry professionals.
Our course delivery features a combination of on-campus and remote (online) learning. This flexibility allows our students to continue to study in a safe, guided and supported manner.
Core and elective units
To be awarded the qualification you must successfully complete six core units and six elective units.
Your course is delivered face-to-face with clusters of units designed to give you hands-on instruction in a range of writing and editing techniques you can expect in the writing industry.
Study areas
- Computer skills for writers
- Introduction to industry skills for writers
- Editing foundations
- Introduction to writing fiction
- Introduction to writing non-fiction
- History of writing and literature
- Introduction to poetry and lyric writing
- Introduction to content creation for new media
- Introduction to writing for video, film and television
You will be regularly assessed during the course to show that you have achieved the skills and knowledge required. Assessments may include practical written project-work and oral tasks. Your course is classroom centered in a studio-based environment in which you will study individually and occasionally in groups; you will use industry-standard equipment and the latest digital publishing software.
