Bad Writing Habits You Learned in School with the GUAA
When you learned how to write in school, you were rewarded for things like building up to a big takeaway, adding in doubles and triples in search of specificity and nuance, and sprinkling in SAT words. But the writing habits that made you successful in school can get you into trouble in the workplace. Clarity, brevity, and simplicity are essential when your readers are busy professionals.
In this webinar, we’ll teach you to identify specific writing practices that you’re taught as a student that will no longer serve you as a professional, along with tangible guidance for what to do instead.
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