If you love sports and are looking to get paid for your passion, this course is for you! Nikki is an Editor and Senior Sports Writer at La Liga News UK and freelance sports writer for It's Round & It's White. She'll teach you the key elements that make up any sports article.

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In this class you'll learn:

- the most common writing errors

- editing tips & tricks

- simple SEO tips

- the importance of practice

Plus, we have a bonus lecture with Jayanth Muraleedharan, National Content Head at Sportskeeda to discuss common errors he sees from writers, as well as other advice for budding sports writers.

Sportskeeda is a sports entertainment platform with over 15 million unique users and 4,000 sports writers, and a great target that you could potentially write for in the future.

For any follow-up questions for Jay, you can email him (jayanth [at] sportskeeda.com).

This is the fourth course in the series on "How to become a sports writer".

The series is for people who are looking to get into sports writing, whether you are passionate about sports and want to get paid for your passion as a full-time career or as part of your freelance side hustle.

Before taking this course, I recommend you have taken Sports Writing 101, which reviews all the sports writing basics.

Your project in this class is to share any sports article you’ve read that could be improved with the editing tips or SEO tips we’ve talked about in this class.

This could be an article from a well-known author, a writer that is just starting out, or even one of your own past articles!

Focus on constructive criticism. How could it be improved? Give specific examples of how you could re-word a headline, a specific sentence, or an entire paragraph to make it better.