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North Tec Diploma in Writing for Creative Industries (Level 5)
North Tec

Diploma in Writing for Creative Industries (Level 5)

Whangārei, New Zealand

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Mar 2025

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Key Summary

    About: The Diploma in Writing for Creative Industries (Level 5) focuses on developing writing skills tailored for various creative fields. You'll engage in practical exercises and projects that enhance your ability to craft compelling narratives, work with different genres, and understand the creative writing process. This course aims to prepare you for real-world writing challenges in the creative industries.
    Career Outcomes: Graduates can pursue careers in numerous areas, including creative writing, content creation, publishing, scriptwriting, and copywriting. Opportunities may be available in media companies, publishing houses, and freelance roles, among others.

Introduction

Our programmes are ideal for people who wish to work independently as writers, for those already working in the creative industries who wish to enhance/upgrade their skills, and for those working in other industries who wish to improve their writing skills to allow higher-level employment.

With this programme, you will learn broad theoretical and technical knowledge and skills relevant to creative and applied writing that will enable you to work in the writing sector, in relation to publishing, broadcasting, performance and digital platforms, and other businesses and organisations.

In this programme you will learn to:

  • Select and apply writing principles and processes (planning, analysis, research, drafting, editing and rewriting) to produce original outputs for specific audiences (print, broadcasting, performance and digital platforms) in the creative industries, and other businesses and organisations.
  • Apply professional, legal and ethical principles in a socially responsible manner to writing practice.
  • Work independently or as part of a team to fulfil customer requirements, meet deadlines, work to a brief and solve problems in order to develop and complete writing projects.

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