Creativity: You will need to create original work and develop ideas around your chosen themes.
Determination: Some assignments can take a long time to finish, or your editor may turn it around for many, many revisions.
Persuasion: Copywriters need to know how to write persuasively and in some cases, defend their creative choices.
Social Perceptiveness: Copywriters need to have their finger on the pulse, so that their copy is relevant and modern, and understand how people will react to their writing.
Writing Skills: Copywriters need to write well: with proper tone, feeling, sentence structure and emotion. Grammar counts!
Requirements
A good blend of education and experience will get you started as a copywriter. You need at least a bachelor's degree in a field like journalism, english, or communications. If your writing is focused on a specific subject, like biology or cars, you will want to be well versed in those subjects. Experience can come from writing in high school and college for school papers, internships or other programs. Copywriters often need a portfolio of work to show their writing abilities and the scope of their proficiency.
clemclem
Level 1 · Mar 28, 2018
