Online Class: Everything You Wanted to Know About Book Reviews
This course will teach you the best places to find book reviews online. It will also cover writing book reviews and marketing them to publications. The only requirements for the course are a love of reading and decent writing skills. Thanks to the popularity of the Internet and electronic books, book reviewers are needed more than ever before. So it's a good skill to have if you want to be a writer, and even if you don't want to be a professional writer, learn how to write what you want to say about your favorite book, and wow them on Amazon.com reader reviews or in your book clubs. (Remember book reviewers often get free books). The course goals are to become familiar with book review sites online,
to know how to write good book reviews and
to be aware of potential markets that accept book reviews.
Enroll today! This is a self-paced, online course. You have 6 months to finish.
An instructor will monitor your progress and assess your body of work at course completion. UniversalClass™ offers many wonderful learning tools
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1.0 CEUs
Course Description
This course will teach you the best places to find book reviews online. It will also cover writing book reviews and marketing them to publications. The only requirements for the course are a love of reading and decent writing skills. Thanks to the popularity of the Internet and electronic books, book reviewers are needed more than ever before. So it's good skill to have if you want to be a writer, and even if you don't want to be a professional writer, learn how to write what you want to say about your favorite book, and wow them on Amazon.com reader reviews or in your book clubs. Remember book reviewers often get free books. The instructor Niki Taylor has degrees in English and Library Science and is a freelance writer/book reviewer who has written reviews for websites and magazines. You can work at your own pace with this course. There's no set class time. Let her take you from reader to reviewer.
Everything You Wanted to Know About Book Reviews will first have students become familiar with book review sites online. The course then steps out ways to write good book reviews and finally goes into potential markets that accept book reviews. The only requirements for the course is a love of reading and decent writing skills.
In this course students are required to:
1. Find five book review sites online and describe them in a report.
2. Write a 300 word book review of any book.
3. Send the book review to a publication.
The student must also take tests to make sure he/she is learning. The grading scale is Pass/Fail. The class offers certificates. You're not required to buy any books, but two ebooks are suggested. The course is two months long, and you can work at your own pace.
This course offers 1.0 CEUs upon successful completion. You may take this
online course with or without CEU documentation. An online and hard-copy Certificate of Course Completion displaying your coursework and
CEUs earned is included with the CEU Option. We also offer an expedited Transcript Service for sending your accomplishments to a third party.
Course Lessons
Optional Certificates Awarded
Certificate of Attendance
Certificate of Class Participation
Certificate of Appreciation
Certificate of Merit
Certificate of Outstanding Achievement
Certificate of Academic Excellence
Certificates awarded by the instructor will vary and are based upon student merit.
Any awards you earn are considered unofficial (or temporary) unless you decide to make the award official.
To make an award official, there is a $30.00 processing fee that covers the customization, printing, and shipping of a hard copy of the certificate as well as access to the UniversalClass™ Transcript Service.
Official awards include a serial number that verifies the authenticity of the award you earned for a lifetime (great for employers
to verify your achievement).