The popular crime fiction genre offers many opportunities for successful authors to pursue full-time and part-time writing careers.
Whether you are interested in writing as a profession, or purely for your own satisfaction, this comprehensive Open Colleges (formerly Cengage Education) writing course will teach you how to develop interesting characters, suspenseful plots and effective dialogue. You will also learn how to produce accurate descriptions of crime scenes and police procedures. Training in writing non-fiction and mysteries for children is included in this course, together with strategies for marketing and promoting your work and finding an agent.
Students are required to enroll via Cengage Education's website and pay for their course via Cengage Education's secured payment system.
Open Colleges is a dual sector Higher Education Institution and a Registered Training Organisation offering certificates, diplomas, and short courses via correspondence learning. As a Nationally recognised provider, the courses offered by Open Colleges are mainly nationally recognised and accredited. Many of Open Colleges courses are Austudy and/or Abstudy approved.
Open Colleges' courses allow you to undertake a self-paced educational journey with its fully online/correspondence education services.
Open Colleges has an affiliation with employment services company Adecco Australia. Students wishing to seek full and/or part time employment in their chosen field, can contact Adecco Australia on completion of their qualification.