Institute of Children's Literature - Learn to Write for Children

<body> <div align="center"> <table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="1" width="500"> <tr> <td> <img border="0" src="images/WAT1-Heading.gif" width="350" height="116"></td> <td><a href="" onclick="Pcertify();return false;"><img src="images/PrivacySeal1.gif" alt="BBBOnLine Privacy Seal" BORDER=0 align="left" width="85" height="130"></a></td> </tr> </table> </div> <div align="center"> <center> <table border="0"> <tr> <td> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center; margin-bottom:0"><span style="font-variant:small-caps"><font size="2">Prepared by the Faculty and consultants of the</font><br> </span><span style="font-size:24.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Times; mso-fareast-font-family:Times;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">Institute of Children’s Literature</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Times;mso-fareast-font-family:Times;mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US; mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">Ž</span></p> <hr> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: normal"> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; font-weight:700"> <font face="Georgia" style="font-size: 10.5pt">This test and evaluation will give you important<br> information about your potential as a children</font></i></span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Georgia; font-weight:700">’</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; font-weight:700"><font face="Georgia" style="font-size: 10.5pt">s<br> writer at no cost or obligation to you.</font></i></span></p> <hr> </td> </tr> </table> </center> </div> <p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> </p> <div align="center"> <table border="0" width="500"> <tr> <td><font face="Georgia" style="font-size: 11.5pt">To help us spot potential authors, we</font><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Georgia">’</span><font face="Georgia" style="font-size: 11.5pt">ve developed this revealing test for writing aptitude. It</font><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Georgia">’</span><font face="Georgia" style="font-size: 11.5pt">s free, and we don</font><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Georgia">’</span><font face="Georgia" style="font-size: 11.5pt">t charge for our evaluation. But unlike courses that accept all applicants, no one can enroll in <i>Writing for Children and Teenagers</i> without passing this test. </font> <p style="margin-bottom: 0"> <font face="Georgia" style="font-size: 11.5pt">Those who pass receive our promise: </font></p> <p style="margin-left: 40px; margin-right: 40px; margin-top: 0"> <font face="Georgia" style="font-size: 11.5pt"><i>By the time you finish our course, you will complete at least one manuscript suitable for submission to an editor or publisher; we</i></font><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Georgia; font-style: italic">’</span><font face="Georgia" style="font-size: 11.5pt"><i>ll show you how to sell your work to them; and we</i></font><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Georgia; font-style: italic">’</span><font face="Georgia" style="font-size: 11.5pt"><i>ll teach you how to continue on your own as a freelance writer.</i></font></td> </tr> </table> </div> <div align="center"> <center> <table border="0" width="500"> <tr> <td width="80%" valign="bottom"> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: left; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:3px"> <font face="Georgia"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;color:navy"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><br> The advantages of </b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; color: navy"> <br> </b><b>a</b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">ptitude testing</b></span></font></p> <p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-top: 0"> <font face="Georgia" style="font-size: 11.5pt">Your test results tell us much more than whether or not you</font><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Georgia">’</span><font face="Georgia" style="font-size: 11.5pt">re ready for our course. They also help your instructor to determine the right level at which to begin your training.</font></p> <p class="MsoPlainText"><font face="Georgia" style="font-size: 11.5pt"> As you progress, your needs and goals will probably change; as they do, your instructor</font><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Georgia">’</span><font face="Georgia" style="font-size: 11.5pt">s teaching plan for you will change, too. Your instructor</font><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Georgia">’</span><font face="Georgia" style="font-size: 11.5pt">s prime objective is to help you achieve your writing goals.</font></p> <p class="MsoPlainText"><font face="Georgia" style="font-size: 11.5pt"> Before you begin, please read the test from beginning to end. Allow yourself plenty of time, then relax and enjoy this interesting challenge. Just give us your natural responses. </font></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 3px"><font face="Georgia"> <span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;color:navy"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">Two important functions</b></span></font><p style="margin-top: 0"> <font face="Georgia" style="font-size: 11.5pt">This test performs two very important functions:</font></td> <td width="20%"> <img border="0" src="images/giraffe1.gif" width="123" height="350"></td> </tr> </table> </center> </div> <div align="center"> <table border="0" width="500"> <tr> <td width="21" valign="top"><font face="Georgia" size="5"><b>1.</b></font></td> <td width="469" valign="top"> <p class="MsoPlainText"> <font face="Georgia" style="font-size: 11.5pt">It distinguishes between those who do and those who do not have the potential, in our opinion, to learn how to write for children and teenagers. </font> </p> <p class="MsoPlainText"> <font face="Georgia" style="font-size: 11.5pt">Since we promise every person accepted for enrollment that he or she will complete at least one manuscript suitable to submit to an editor or a publisher by the time he or she graduates, we must be certain that those we accept have the necessary potential to achieve this goal.</font></p> <p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-bottom: 0"> <font face="Georgia" style="font-size: 11.5pt">Our instructors are all well-established, highly regarded professionals. Their good will is extremely important to our success. Never, under any circumstance, would we ask an instructor to take on an underqualified student. It would not be fair to the student, and it would not be fair to the instructor.</font></p> <p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-top: 0"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="21" valign="top"><b><font face="Georgia" size="5">2.</font></b></td> <td width="469" valign="top"> <p class="MsoPlainText"> <font face="Georgia" style="font-size: 11.5pt">The successful applicant</font><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Georgia">’</span><font face="Georgia" style="font-size: 11.5pt">s level of performance in this test also reveals skills and strengths, as well as weaknesses, that the instructor will take into account in developing his or her individual teaching plan. Quite naturally, there are differences in age and life experience, education, access to children and teenagers, reading and writing levels, and other factors among those who are accepted for enrollment. </font></p> <p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-bottom: 0"> <font face="Georgia" style="font-size: 11.5pt">Our course is designed to deal with individual differences through its one-on-one method of instruction. If we accept you for enrollment, regardless of your beginning level . . .</font></p> <p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-top: -15px; margin-bottom: 0"> </p> <p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-left: 40px; margin-right: 40px; margin-top: 0"> <font face="Georgia" style="font-size: 11.5pt"><i>you</i></font><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Georgia; font-style: italic">’</span><font face="Georgia" style="font-size: 11.5pt"><i>ll complete a character study, a descriptive sketch, professional query letters to editors, five story or article manuscripts, and the opening chapters of a book</i>—<i>all by the time you graduate.</i></font></td> </tr> </table> </div> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> </p> <div align="center"> <table border="0" width="500"> <tr> <td> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:left; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:3px"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; color: navy"> <font size="4" face="Georgia"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">You are under no obligation</b></font></span></p> <p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-top: 0"> <font face="Georgia" style="font-size: 11.5pt">Remember, you will not be under any obligation when you return this test to us for review. It is a free service. Your test will be read by professional evaluators and treated with respect and in confidence.</font></p> <p class="MsoPlainText"> <font face="Georgia" style="font-size: 11.5pt">The test is designed to be enjoyable—to give you the chance to experiment with words and ideas and to exercise your writing ability. Relax and write in pen or pencil at a comfortable pace, or use a typewriter or computer. There are no right or wrong answers. We</font><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Georgia">’</span><font face="Georgia" style="font-size: 11.5pt">re looking for the way you express yourself naturally. </font></p> <p class="MsoPlainText"> <font face="Georgia" style="font-size: 11.5pt"><b>NOTE: </b>If you pass this test and decide to enroll, we will dedicate ourselves to your satisfaction, and you will receive our guarantee: <b>If you are not satisfied that you</b></font><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Georgia; font-weight: 700">’</span><font face="Georgia" style="font-size: 11.5pt"><b>ve become a better writer and learned how to market your writing to publishers by the time you</b></font><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Georgia; font-weight: 700">’</span><font face="Georgia" style="font-size: 11.5pt"><b>ve completed our course, you can obtain a full refund.</b></font></p> <p class="MsoPlainText" align="center"> <font size="4" face="Georgia" style="font-weight: 700; font-style: italic" color="#0000FF"> Good luck—and have fun!</font></td> </tr> </table> </div> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> </p> <div align="center"> <table border="0" width="500"> <tr> <td> <p align="center"><a href="download.htm"> <img border="0" src="images/DAT.gif" width="150" height="96"></a></td> <td> <p align="center"><a href="aptitude_background.htm"> <img border="0" src="images/IAT.gif" width="150" height="96"></a></td> </tr> </table> </div> <p align="center" style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> </p> <div align="center"> <table border="0" width="500"> <tr> <td> <p align="center"><a href="sendinfo.htm"> <img border="0" src="images/Send-info.gif" width="150" height="36"></a></td> </tr> </table> </div> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> </p> <div align="center"> <table border="0" width="500"> <tr> <td valign="top"> <img border="0" src="images/grad-cap.gif" width="50" height="25"></td> <td> <hr color="#000000" size="1"> <p style="margin-top: -5px; margin-bottom: 0"> <font face="Arial" style="font-size: 9pt">Approved by the Connecticut Commissioner of Higher Education and recommended for college credits by the Connecticut Board for State Academic Awards.</font></td> </tr> </table> </div> <p> </p> <p> <?php include("footer_pp.htm")?> </p> </body>