Writing Skills: Plain English for professionals

Course Overview

This course will teach you the core lesson of why we need to write more clearly.

Audience

Those who want to break away from the jargon of their professions in order to deliver clearer, more effective communications.

Not for

Those who don't want their message to be understood clearly.

Course Outline

• What's wrong with using long words: the prime importance of the reader or readers.
• Writing as you speak for clarity, getting the grammar and spelling right.
• The problems of using your computer's spelling and grammar checkers.
• Simple lessons for improving your sentence structure.
• Building a message; constructing a letter or document so that it reads logically.
• A checklist to test your writing clarity.
• A look at your writing to see how good (or bad) it is in a "plain English" test, and how it can be improved.

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