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On completion of this course you will:
- Understand how to create documents that are clear, concise, correct and readable
- Be able to edit with a light touch and an open mind
- Have the skills to ensure your publications:
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Enhance your professional image
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Communicate your messages quickly and effectively
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Respond to the needs of the target audience
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Display a consistent and professional style
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Communicate ideas and information in Clear English
- Use a logical, user-friendly structure
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Look accessible and easy to read
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Contain no errors in grammar, punctuation or use of English
Who should attend?
Organisations that are trying to encourage a consistent standard of writing and support professional written communications.
Anyone who:
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Edits or proofreads their own or others’ writing
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Has sign-off responsibility for publications
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Would like to improve the quality of the materials they produce
Part One: Planning and writing refresher
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Creating an effective brief, using 5Ws and H
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Identifying readers’ needs and their level of expertise
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Organising structure and writing an outline
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Writing with KISSSS (keep it short, simple, strong and sincere)
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Practice
Part Two:
Editing
- Strategies: how to develop a fresh eye to analyse writing
- Three steps to successful editing (focusing on ROCS: readers, objective, content and structure)
- How to create strong sentences
- Common mistakes - learning to hear alarm bells:
- Double meanings
- Fragments
- Singular or plural?
- Who or whom?
- That or which?
- Tenses
- Word order
- Split infinitives
- Commonly confused words
- Team writing guidelines
- Making materials look accessible
- Use of charts
- Online resources
- Practice
Part Three:
Proofreading
- Common punctuation errors: apostrophes, hyphens, commas, colons, semi-colons and capital letters
- Importance of consistency
- Creating a proofreading checklist
- Pub-style punctuation quiz
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