Writing Basics

WRITING THE RIGHT WAY: WRITING BASICS COURSE #104314

This workshop will help you to brush up on your writing skills. You will learn ways to make your writing more powerful, clear, and interesting.

Topics:

  1. Getting started through Mind Mapping and Free-Writing
  2. Developing Purpose Statements to get to the point
  3. Writing to the Reader – the audience is everything!
  4. Creating Visual Appeal
  5. Cleaning up clutter - eliminating prepositions and other bad style killers
  6. Enlivening your writing using Vivid Verbs (Dull words - dull writing)
  7. Silencing the passive voice by creating active voice sentences
  8. Activating your message - exposing nominalizations!
  9. Smoothing out your writing – Sentences and Paragraphs
  10. The Power of Polishing – avoiding errors – editing and rewriting
  11. Adding Rhythm – punctuation – pacing – varying sentences
  12. Getting rid of Gremlins – misused:words, tense, grammar, and spelling
  13. Writing case records and reports

Learning Process:

  1. Individual exercises
  2. Small group exercises
  3. Video clips
  4. Brain teasers
  5. Handouts with examples and illustrations

Schedule:

Refer to UTC for class schedule.