Improve Your Business Writing-Levels 1 and 2

Level 1

Learn how to write clear and concise memos, reports, and proposals to get the results you want. This course will help you improve your grammar and punctuation; teach you how to write for different audiences; and train you to more effectively plan, organize, format, and edit your writing.

7607 - 8 Wednesdays, October 15 - December 10 6:30-8:30pm, $450 (no class 11/26)

Level 2

A quick, intensive chance to brush up and hone your business writing skills. All business correspondence; emails, reports, proposals and memos will be reviewed. Prerequistite: Must have taken a previous business writing course

7644 - 4 Tuesdays, October 14- November 4 6:30-8:30pm, $225

Instructor: Nancy Di Benedetto, editor; critic; author; instructor, Marymount Manhattan College

To register, call (212) 817-8215 or email continuinged@gc.cuny.edu with the information listed on this form. Or click for all of our registration options.

Practicing Poetry: A Writing Workshop

As Ben Jonson wrote, "a good Poet's made, as well as born." Poets benefit from working at their craft. In this class, students will write poems weekly, then read and discuss each others' poems, gaining a vocabulary for responding constructively as readers--and becoming better editors of their own work. We will also do close readings of exemplary poems. Beginners are encouraged; returning students are very welcome.

Instructor: Sally Dawidoff, MFA, poet and lyricist; National Endowment for the Arts fellowship; 2007 Pushcart Prize nomination.

7600 - 8 Wednesdays, October 15 - December 10 6:30-9:30pm, $450 (no class 11/26)

To register, call (212) 817-8215 or email continuinged@gc.cuny.edu with the information listed on this form. Or click for all of our registration options.

Classic Political Novels

We will read and discuss five classic political novels-among them, John Steinbeck's The Pearl, (which students should read for the first class session), Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart, and Carson McCullers' The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter. These works are "political" not because they examine politics or government but because they richly illuminate power relations between groups of people- including dynamics of gender, race, and class-while telling memorable, moving stories. Students will be expected to read each novel and to participate actively in class discussions.

Instructor: Bob Lamm is a free- lance writer and teacher. His work has appeared in the New York Times, Publisher's Weekly, Ms. Magazine, and many other periodicals. He has taught at Yale, Queens College, and the New School, and has taught in the Graduate Center's Continuing Education program since 2001.

7594 - 5 Tuesdays, September 23, October 21, November 18, December 16 and January 13, 6:30-8:30pm, $150

To register, call (212) 817-8215 or email continuinged@gc.cuny.edu with the information listed on this form. Or click for all of our registration options.