Write to Change the World, Op-Ed Seminar for Women and Men

Community Media Workshop, headquartered at Columbia College Chicago, invites Skokie residents and others in the area to an op-ed writing workshop: How to Write to Change the World: An Op-Ed Seminar.

Monday, Oct. 20, 2008
9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
at
Community Media Workshop
619 S. Wabash
Chicago

Op-Ed pages of major newspapers are read by policy makers, business people, scholars and those in the highest level of government. Op-Eds can sway public opinion and change the world.

In this seminar you will learn to:
- Identify the ideas and causes you care about and
- Show you how to write about them to make a difference
- Get trained on how to generate winning ideas and craft powerful
arguments
- Gain an understanding on how to frame an issue to make your point and
persuade your readers

Cost is $225, includes continental breakfast and lunch (East- and
West-coasters are paying $300!)

Register at http://www.gifttool.com/registrar/ShowEventDetails?ID=1253&EID=3169 or call 312-369-6400.

Catherine Orenstein from The Op-Ed Project will do the training. She has been featured in The New
York Times, Feministing. com and on CBS News with Katie Couric. She has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The San Francisco Examiner Sunday Magazine, and Ms. Magazine, among other
places. Her opinion pieces have run on the Knight-Ridder newswire and appear in anthologies.

The Op-Ed Project is an initiative to expand public debate, with an immediate focus on targeting and training women experts across the nation to project their voices on the op-ed pages of major newspapers, online sites and other key forums of public discourse, currently dominated by male voices.