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| "I am walking away from this course with much more than I would have imagined and a hunger to continue travel writing."
-M. M., Television Editor
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| "A realistic, informative look into the freelance lifestyle."
-A. S., Advertising Executive
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Since 1997, thousands of students have discovered how simple it is to learn at Gotham's online home, WritingClasses.com. Our Web-based classes are presented in an easy-to-understand, accessible manner with easy navigation and clear instruction from our expert teachers. And they include everything you would expect to find in a "live" class—lectures, discussions, writing exercises, teacher feedback, group critiques, and the pleasure of getting to know others who share your passion for writing. You'll learn more in a matter of weeks than you might in a year of trial and error.
These are the major components of our online classes:
Lectures
Every week a lecture is posted to the Blackboard section of your online class. You and your classmates can then read the lecture, make comments, or raise questions at any time. The teacher responds to these comments and questions, and a discussion ensues. You have ample time to frame your questions and consider the responses. And you don’t have to take any notes because you can print the week's lecture and discussion.
Writing Exercises
You have a private online Notebook, available only to you and your teacher. Every week your teacher posts an exercise related to the weekly lecture topic. After you complete the exercise and post your work, your teacher responds with personal feedback on your writing.
Critique
Each week several students submit work to The Booth, our simple yet highly effective system for critiquing student work. You and your classmates then post comments: positive comments followed by suggestions for improvement. Then the teacher posts feedback on the writing. Finally, just as in a live class, the writer has an opportunity to pose questions to the class in order to obtain clarification or to raise an issue that may not have been discussed. The process provides rigorous feedback and clear next steps for each writer. (Some four and six-week classes do not include the group critique component.)
You can take a tour of a sample online class in one of two ways:
Video Tour - You view a short movie that takes you on a guided tour of our online "classroom."
Sample Class - You take yourself around the "classroom," just as if you were a student.Both tours are of a Fiction I course, but these work just like most of our other online courses.