Bold Type’s 5 Day Career Writing Challenge
What does your writing say about you when you’re not in the room?
Everyone has a personal brand, whether they intend to or not. Your professional writing lives online in hundreds of tiny places—think company bios, emails, Slack messages, articles, and LinkedIn posts. These items add up to an overall impression: is this person professional, polished, credible, considerate? Is this person a clear communicator?
Whether you’re looking to make a career change or simply know an update is past due, join us for 5 days of quick, practical challenges to tune up your professional writing.
We start on March 23 with an audit of your Personal Brand.
Writing and Editing for Communicators
When you approach a new writing task, do you know what will make your final product “good” and exactly how to make that happen? Or, have you learned your professional writing skills through trial and error, hoping for the best, or getting heavy edits from others? Maybe you like the idea of improving the “flow” or “tone” of your writing, or reducing your “wordiness” and being “engaging”—but what do those things really look like in action? Where can you actually find them in a draft?
In this course, you will learn to use a three-part framework for better edits that Bold Type LLC instructors have taught to thousands of professionals in our training programs.
Concise Copy Edits
Learn to quickly and confidently edit your documents for better sentence-level clarity. You'll know how to be efficient and where to focus editing attention during quick turnarounds.
We will explore:
Where to focus your editing attention for clarity, brevity, and word choice at the sentence level
When and how to use tools for readability measurements and proofreading as part of your editing arsenal