Scientific, Technical and Professional Writing
Writing: Short, Simple, Smart
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Professional, Scientific and Technical Writing
This career enhancement workshop helps everyone who writes at work. Learn vital skills you need to write clear, crisp technical communications, proposals, letters, e-mail, reports...on paper and online. Get plenty of individual attention as you learn and practice every aspect of writing. Includes The Well-Read Organization System, sentence forms, structures, editing and proofreading, private critiques each day. Practice your own work (no "canned" exercises), and get an extensive resource package. (2 days)
Learn how to:
- Analyze and synthesize to structure all writing
- Ensure fluency and logic
- Incorporate rhetorical devices for clarity and power
- Cut word count by 30% or more
- Use parallelism for brevity, compression, logic
- Control active, passive voice, action verbs
- Avoid excessive sentence length, awkward constructions
- Build and link sentences, paragraphs, and longer units
- Use preferred jargon; shun "mumbo-jumbo" jargon
- Organize to suit professional conventions
- Determine how much and what content to include
- Match the writing to the reader
- Craft a thesis statement
- Lead and end appropriately
- Ensure fluency and logic
- Incorporate suitable rhetorical devices for clarity and power
- Use parallelism for brevity, compression, logic
- Use passive voice to attain specific results
- Avoid excessive sentence length
- Apply essential principles of grammar
- Follow advanced punctuation conventions
- Attain the right tone
- Compose sentences to perform varied tasks
- Prefer nouns and verbs
- Use preferred jargon; shun "mumbo-jumbo" jargon
- Expand vocabulary with Well-Read techniques
- Enhance comprehension with appearance, headings, spaces
- Design clear charts, graphs, visuals
Writing: Short, Simple & Smart
Weak, wordy writing plagues both writers and audiences and wastes countless
dollars. Gain techniques to get short messages across efficiently and professionally.
Learn quick tips, shortcuts, and compression devices that send written and spoken messages
quickly and clearly. (½ day or 1 day)
Learn how to:
- Cut writing time, word count, reading time for short communications
- Follow two Well-Read rules that save millions
- Shun weak language forms that add words but reduce credibility
- Write effective short pieces
You write correctly, but not clearly enough, quickly enough, or concisely enough. Yet
you're too busy to take time for a leisurely class. Combining small-class instruction with
individual coaching, this intensive workshop is for people who have long attention spans,
enjoy high energy levels, and aim to sharpen advanced writing skills. Learn to write both
quickly and clearly; organize for easy reading; use advanced rhetorical techniques;
develop complex arguments; and express ideas concisely. Follow-up includes consultation
and electronic editing. Also available as an electronic seminar. (1 day + consultation +
follow-up + editing)
Learn how to:
- Plan with The Organization System
- Avoid wordy, murky sentences
- Prefer the action verb
- Copy style from great leaders
- Convey complex ideas clearly and simply
- Ensure logic and fluency
- Cut length of written documents by 30%
- Inspire a shared vision through writing
- Open and close like a leader
A grammar update for everyone who wants to write, speak and lead powerfully. Build the
foundation of clear, concise language at work. Avoid old, dusty rules; link clear grammar
and clear thinking; craft precise and logical business sentences; get superb references
and plenty of practice correcting errors. (1 day)
Learn how to:
- Benefit from private grammar analysis
- Identify and correct the most frequent errors
- Choose correct pronouns
- Select verbs that agree with their subjects
- Eliminate dangling phrases and clauses
- Prefer active voice
- Construct advanced sentences
- Analyze and prevent spelling errors
The right word is to the almost right word as lightning is to the lightning bug. Get rid of the lightning bugs and add lightning to your business and professional vocabulary. Acquire and learn to use the unabridged dictionary as an invaluable aid. The Well-Read techniques broaden and deepen your word power in daily conversations, writing, and presentations. (1 day)
Learn how to:
- Follow Well-Read's four steps to a power vocabulary
- Understand and benefit from the four levels of word power
- Select words that say precisely what you intend
- Add vigor with action verbs
- Use and benefit from the unabridged dictionary and other resources
- See how language reflects history and culture
- Apply a variety of vocabulary techniques to enrich imagery, add clarity and aid precision