Authors and Related Writers plan, research and write books, scripts, original stories, plays, essays, speeches, manuals, specifications and other non-journalistic articles (excluding material for newspapers, magazines and other periodicals) for publication or presentation.
Writing literary works for publication or dramatic performance;
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Writing scripts and continuities and preparing programmes for stage, film, radio and television productions;
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Appraising and writing about literary, musical and other works of art and artistic performances;
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Writing advertising copy promoting a particular product or service;
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Selecting, assembling and preparing publicity materials about business or other organisations for issue through the press, radio, television and other media;
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Designing and writing brochures, handbooks and similar technical publications;
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Responsible for information services including social library management publishing and documentation systems;
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Performing related tasks; and
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Enhancing knowledge and coordinating work performance.
What are the skills required?
Skills, knowledege and abilities that are essential to carry out a task with determined results. Skills can often be divided into domain-general and domain-specific skills.
Soft Skill
English
Able to speak English
Soft Skill
Writing
Experience expressing business messages effectively in written form. This may include planning drafting and revising as necessary.
Hard Skill
Copywriting
Working experience of Copywriting, which is the act of writing text for the purpose of advertising or other forms of marketing.
Hard Skill
Mandarin
Able to speak Mandarin
Soft Skill
Research
Experience performing creative and systematic work to understand a product, market, or customer, either before building a new solution, or to troubleshoot an existing issue
Soft Skill
Communication
The ability to communicate effectively with superiors, colleagues, and staff is essential, no matter what industry you work in.
Soft Skill
Bahasa Malaysia
Able to speak Bahasa Malaysia
Soft Skill
Editing
Editing is the process of selecting and preparing written, visual, audible, and film media used to convey information.
Hard Skill
Proofreading
Proofreading is the reading of a galley proof or an electronic copy of a publication to detect and correct production errors of text or art.
Soft Skill
Writing And Editing
The different techniques to write a story such as the descriptive, persuasive, first person and other techniques.
Hard Skill
Analysis
The ability to collect and analyze information, problem-solve, and make decisions
Soft Skill
Business Writing
The term business writing refers tomemorandums, reports, proposals, emails, and other forms of writing used in organizations to communicate with internal or external audiences.
Soft Skill
Content Marketing
Content marketing is a form of marketing focused on creating, publishing and distributing content for a targeted audience online.
Soft Skill
Creative Writing
Creative writing is any writing that goes outside the bounds of normal professional, journalistic, academic, or technical forms of literature, typically identified by an emphasis on narrative craft, character development, and the use of literary tropes or with various traditions of poetry and poetics.
Hard Skill
Fiction Writing
Fiction writing is the composition of non-factual prose texts.
Hard Skill
Japanese
Japanese (, Nihongo, [ihoo] or [ihoo]) is an East Asian language spoken by about 125 million speakers, primarily in Japan, where it is the national language.
Hard Skill
Knowledge Management
Knowledge management (KM) is the process of creating, sharing, using and managing the knowledge and information of an organisation.
Hard Skill
Korean
The Korean language (/, see below) is the official and national language of both Koreas: the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) and the Republic of Korea (South Korea), with different standardized official forms used in each territory.
Soft Skill
Leadership
Leadership is both a research area and a practical skill encompassing the ability of an individual or organization to "lead" or guide other individuals, teams, or entire organizations.
Hard Skill
Marketing Writing
Marketing is the study and management of exchange relationships. Marketing is used to create, keep and satisfy the customer.
Soft Skill
Media Planning
Media planning is generally outsourced to a media agency and entails sourcing and selecting optimal media platforms for a client's brand or product to use.
Soft Skill
Media Relations
Media Relations involves working with media for the purpose of informing the public of an organization's mission, policies and practices in a positive, consistent and credible manner.
Hard Skill
News Editing
Working experience of News Editing, which involves editing copy to make it more readable. It is one of the most valued skills in a newsroom.
Soft Skill
Report Writing
A report or account is any informational work (usually of writing, speech, television, or film) made with the specific intention of relaying information or recounting certain events in a widely presentable form.
Soft Skill
Social Media Monitoring
identifying and determining what is being said about a brand, individual or product through different social and online channels
Hard Skill
Sports Writing
Sports writing is a form of journalism or creative nonfiction in which a sporting event, individual athlete, or sports-related issue serves as the dominant subject.
Soft Skill
Typing
Typing is the process of writing or inputting text by pressing keys on a typewriter, computer keyboard, cell phone, or calculator.
Soft Skill
Underwriting
Create guidelines for the assessment of risks and determining whether acceptance of liability and granting payments is worth the risk for the organisation. Develop improved methods of analysis which ensure that all aspects of the underwriting process are examined.
Soft Skill
Web Writing
Web development is a broad term for the work involved in developing a web site for the Internet (World Wide Web) or an intranet (a private network).
Soft Skill
Written Communication
Working experience of Written Communication, which involves any type of message that makes use of the written word. Written communication is the most important and the most effective of any mode of business communication.
Field of Study Required
Field of study consists of a broad area of academic and skills qualifications that come under a similar branch of subject knowledge. In addition, courses offered under each field of study require similar academic entry requirements.