Writing Editorials

Introduction

Welcome to the Suite University course on writing newspaper editorials. In this course, you can learn effective techniques for writing letters to the editor, then submit your opinions to everything from your local newspaper to national publications. Valuable for anyone interested in public affairs, current events, and pop-culture, this course will help the student to develop a writing interest, as well as hone argumentative and persuasive writing skills. This course is great for beginning writers, as well as those interested in scientific disciplinary writing, print journalism, editorial processes, and public policy discourse.

Writing newspaper opinions is a great way to gain expression for your writing. With relatively little time invested, you can learn to produce concise, effective and persuasive editorials on a regular basis. Perhaps the most exciting element is that YOU can choose your subject based upon public interest and current relevancy. By learning what subjects are most important to your target community, whether it’s local property taxes or “American Idol,” you become part of the public discourse when your opinion is published. This course can help you get there.

There is no greater satisfaction, for a writer, than seeing your work in print. Why not start with a letter to the editor? The first time someone approaches you in public, and says, “about that letter you wrote…” you’ll be hooked on op-ed writing and all that it entails. Learn the satisfaction of a well-written opinion; it’s all inside this course.

The course covers the subject very well and then springboards you off toward your goal, wiser and more confident for having taken it.even if you don't want to pursue writing for newspapers, the course can show you how to condense and focus your opinions in order to present them more effectively...and, therefore, more persuasively. Genia G. Butcher