This two-day workshop sharpens your everyday English skills to make you a better writer at the office.  You'll learn to apply 17 effective writing principles for clear, persuasive workplace documents that are to the point.

DAY 1
• Resisting pressures that lead to "gobbledygook."
• Experience vs. Education as a basis for writing confidence.
• Serving your reader, not yourself.
• Defining what is "good" job-related writing.
• Using practical grammar: Clarity over "Correctness."
• Organizing Ideas Quickly and Effectively.
• Choosing what to include and what to omit.

DAY 2
• Writing paragraphs to make key ideas easy to spot.
• Learning how to write the "Memo Report."
• Building bridges between paragraphs.
• Shrinking sentences to readable size.
• Keeping only what's meaningful.
• Writing in the "active" voice - key to powerful writing.
• Choosing the "right" key words.
• Punctuating properly.
• Learning the 7 "word-focus" faults for revising.
• Editing techniques that place words in clear order.
• Measuring reading difficulty with the Gunning Fog Index.

1. Gain confidence in your own writing skill.
2. Learn what makes for "good" job-related writing.
3. Save time and money through clear, concise documents.
4. Get what you want by writing more persuasively.
5. Evaluate your own writing objectively.