This class covers the essential writing skills all workplace writers need. It serves as a great foundation for other courses. You can apply what you learn to emails, letters, memos, reports, proposals, web content, brochures, newsletters or customer communications.
This course is suitable for anyone, whether you work for a corporate, government department, medium-sized business or not-for-profit organisation. (We offer discounts on request if you work for a not-for-profit organisation.)
When: TBA 2016
Length: Four weeks
Cost: $395 GST incl.
Tutors: Mary Morel and Lynne Laracy
Course description
The content is divided into four sections that cover the planning, structure, writing and revising stages of writing. It steps you through the principles and processes of good writing, and includes a variety of activities so you can put them into practice.
Each week, you will receive information and activities. You will also have the opportunity to post samples of your work and receive feedback from the tutors and other participants in the class.
Week one: Plan
- Benefits of planning
- Share your planning methods
- Try new planning methods
Week two: Structure and format
- Get to the point upfront
- Let readers know where the document is heading
- Group information
- Use clear titles and headings
- Format your writing well
Week three: Write
Tips and techniques to make your writing more:
- Clear
- Concise
- Coherent
- Consistent
Week four: Revise
- Check the big picture first
- Revise the structure and format
- Fix up the details
Your tutors
Mary Morel has been working with words all her career as a teacher, author and consultant. She’s the author of three books and blogs regularly about board papers and grammar. Read more
Lynne Laracy spends her days training people to write well at work. With 25 years of writing – from newspapers, to magazines, to specialist health and local government publishing – under her belt, Lynne feels like she has a thing or two to share about writing well under pressure. And as a former local government manager, she knows from the inside the challenges of writing at work. Lynne is the author of the self-paced courses on emails and business writing. You can read more at www.laracy.co.nz
