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For Students and Professionals Course Description: No experience in Academic Writing! Do not Worry! In this course, students will learn about how to write academic assignments (Essay, Thesis, Dissertations, Research papers, Lab reports, Book reports, etc.) in the shortest possible time.

How do you write a good memoir? You apply the narrative techniques of fiction and poetry: you take the fascinating, messy raw material of your life and build a frame for it. You distill. You find a voice that’s all you but that also offers you flexibility, perspective and the right counterbalance to the story’s content. You tap into your emotions...

Students aspiring to become entrepreneurs in the fashion industry examine the skills needed to conceive, finance, open, and operate a successful fashion business. Through collaborative research and hands-on practice, students learn the elements of opening a business and navigating the complexities of working with a team. They learn to create business...

Working on a gripping memoir, nonfiction book, or novel but have no clue how to land an agent or contract? Associate Editor at Little, Brown and Co, Nicky Guerreiro can help make your dream of publishing your book a reality! In this seven-week Online Book Proposal Class, She’ll help you present and shape your book so it’s the project that everyone...

Every life holds many tales. Whether your life is wildly unconventional or relatively normal, there’s bound to be something fascinating about it. That’s why the contemporary memoir—everyday people telling their stories—has become such a popular phenomenon. A memoir covers an aspect of a life, whether it’s a short piece about, say, a bicycle...

You’ve spent months, or years, sweating and swearing over a book and now you’re ready to draw the interest of agents and/or publishing houses. Or perhaps you’re in the midst of writing a book and you want to know the publishing challenges up ahead. The question looms: how do you get a book published? Here you will learn how to navigate the ins-and-outs...

Tableau Advanced training course is intended for Tableau users who are already familiar with Tableau concepts, i.e., the creation of calculated fields, all chart options, and the basics for connecting to data including extracts. By the end of this advanced course, you will be familiar with LOD (Level of Detail) expressions, finding meaningful clusters...

Have you always wanted to write a personal essay but you don’t know where to start? Or have you dreamed of seeing one of your essays published in the New York Times or Salon? Then this six week live online personal essay writing class is for you. Using fun in-class exercises, we’ll help you transform your bad blind dates and visits from unruly...

In this class students will learn the fundamentals of business management, advertising, marketing and online presence and social medias reach. The difference between this class and taking any online class out there is that I will assist students that have never managed a business online before by guiding them through every little steps needed to grow...

This Writing Analytical Queries for Business Intelligence course is about writing TSQL queries for the purpose of database reporting, analysis, and business intelligence. Specifically, this course presents TSQL within the context of data analysis – in other words, making meaning from the data rather than transaction-oriented data-tier application...

According to a recent McKinsey survey, 86% of senior executives believe that innovation is critical, and 80% think that their business models are going to undergo significant threats in the near term. Yet only 6% report feeling confident about their organization’s ability to innovate and are unsure of what their exact business challenges are. ...

Nonfiction—pieces that spring from the real world—is everywhere. Magazines, newspapers, books, blogs, websites. And nonfiction has grown more diverse and creative than ever, embracing all styles from straight to zany to lyrical, encompassing every topic imaginable from schoolyard memories to a trek in Nepal to the creation of the universe. Here...

This course gives you a firm grounding in the basics of humor writing craft and gets you writing a short piece (or two) or a book. Course components: Lectures Writing exercises Workshopping of student projects (each student presenting work two times) Humor Writing is for beginners or anyone who wants to brush up on the fundamentals. Students...

Do you enjoy sharing your viewpoints? What do you think of, say, global warming or the latest water-cooler TV show or the forgotten value of handkerchiefs? No topic is too major or minor to warrant exploration. There are many places to air your views—magazines, newspapers, websites, blogs, books—and many forms to encapsulate them. People will...

WordPress for Beginners: challenge yourself by learning WordPress. WordPress for Beginners: WordPress is one of the most widely used content management systems in the world, found on over 25% of the world’s websites.  The popularity of WordPress comes from its ease of use for people of all skill levels.  In the Beginners WordPress class,...