Also known as Content Writer, Digital Content Writer.
Designs and composes written material to advertise products and services.
Training time
1 - 2 years
Employment prospects
Moderate
How do I become a Copywriter in Victoria?
To work as a Copywriter in Victoria, you'll need:
- Certificate IV in Professional Writing and Editing
Recommended
- Completion of Victorian Certificate of Education (VCE) or equivalent
- Strong literacy skills
- Diploma of Professional Writing and Editing
- A folio of work demonstrating your writing skills
- Work experience in a workplace similar to where you wish to apply
What does a Copywriter do?
- Determines advertising approach by consulting clients and management, and studying products to establish principal selling features
- Writes advertisements for press, radio, television, cinema screens, billboards, catalogues and shop displays
- Makes decisions about the specific content of publications in conjunction with other senior editors and in accordance with editorial policies and guidelines
- Reviews copy for publication to ensure conformity with accepted rules of grammar, style and format, coherence of story, and accuracy, legality and probity of content
- Collects and analyses facts about newsworthy events from interviews, printed matter, investigations and observations
- Writes news reports, commentaries, articles and feature stories for newspapers, magazines, journals, television and radio on topics of public interest
- Researches and writes technical, information-based material and documentation for manuals, text books, handbooks and multimedia products
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