The Better Writing Bootcamp
Improve your writing for business or home by learning some simple techniques with Kate Thompson
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Description
Do you do a lot of writing – either at home or at work? Then make your words count, by learning some simple techniques to get your writing into shape. Tone up, with active verbs, snappy sentence structures and a personal tone. Trim down by saving words, shortening sentences and ditching the ‘corporate-speak’. Then keep your writing in shape with tips and tools to plan, structure, lay out and review your documents. These techniques work for all business writing – from long reports, to CVs, to emails to insurance policies.
There’ll be opportunities to practise your new skills and you’ll take away a handy toolkit of tips.
Course outline
We'll cover tools and tips to help you:
- Plan your writing: audience, purpose, message
- Wrangle (structure!) your documents
- Choose strong, concise, personal language that engages your audience and makes your documents easy to read and understand
- Lay out your content in ways that help your audience
- Understand modern style conventions
- Review your writing (and find the mistakes!)
Expected learning outcomes
At the end of the course you will:
- Understand the features of good business writing
- Be able to plan, structure and lay out your documents to get your message across (however big your document is).
- Be able to choose and use words, structures and tone that engage your audience and make your documents interesting and easy to read and understand.
- Be able to use some handy techniques to review your writing
Who should attend this course?
People who write regularly and would like some simple techniques to write language that's concise, punchy, engaging and easy to understand.
