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Editing Skills Review (1 Day)
VERSION: 1.0
This one-day workshop helps writers looking for the next level of skill development. It will help you acquire essential editing skills for every form of writing. You will learn how to edit the work of others as well as your own. You will gain confidence as an editor. You will learn the "Dos" and "Don'ts" of editing for others. We use The Gregg Reference Manual as our standard and teach Plain Talk principles in this course. We encourage you to finish this review by taking the one-day Proofreading Skills course.
Key Benefits
Learn to:
- Edit in the correct order
- Edit for vaired sentence structure
- Clear sentences of clutter
- Use acceptable tone
- Choose the proper words
- Edit for spelling and other conventions
- Edit for readability
Style of Instruction
Onsite: Taught by one of our instructors in a training room, using audio/visual presentations and in-class exercises.
Online: You will download text materials and instructional movies to view. You will view the materials and complete assignments at your own pace, then submit them by direct file transfer (FTP) to your instructor. You may opt to meet your instructor at regular intervals in a live audio/video conference room to discuss your work.
Who Should Take this Course?
All public and private sector executive and administrative assistants, office staff, and others who rewrite or edit a variety of written documents.
Objective
Upon completion of this course, participants should be able to edit documents to ensure:
- Powerful writing happens all the time.
- Key ideas appear up front for your customer.
- Sentences provide parallel importance, focus on emphasis, and remove wordiness.
- Clutter-free sentences by removing 15 types of writing nightmares for any general or business document.
- Acceptable tone even when having to say "no" to a customer.
- “Plain Talk” clarity in email, memos, and letters.
Course Contents
- Editing for Powerful Writing.
- Editing Your Message in Descending Order.
- Editing for Varied Sentence Structure.
- Editing to Clear Your Sentences of Clutter.
- Editing for Acceptable Tone.
Text
Participants will receive the Course Book Editing Skills Review, written by Dr. Sharon Bridwell, which includes fill-in-the-blank information, plus 27 editing activities and exercises. Come prepared to work.
Prerequisites
To profit from this course you need to:
- Write documents in understandable English.
- Slowly review the material and complete all exercises and assignments without the help of others.
- Navigate a Web site using hypertext links (online course only).
- Send and reply to e-mail messages (online course only).
What we require of you
For the onsite class, you must show up for class on time and remain until it is completed (approximately 7-8 hours each day). You will interact with other learners, complete writing exercises, and ask questions when confused.
For the online class, you will take this course at your own pace. Although we estimate you can complete this course in 14 hours, you have up to ten weeks. If you are new to self-directed learning, you may find this style of learning fresh—and a bit frightening. You learn by doing. You alone are responsible for your own learning. That means you must have the drive and discipline to see the course through.
Before you start
- Review your own schedule to make sure you have the time to give to this learning process.
- For the onsite class you have no pre-class readings or activities.
- For the online class you need to review this document, the terms and conditions, and technical requirements to make sure that you meet all of them (see links below).
- After reading this entire description, proceed to the Register page when you are ready to sign up.
Instructor
Write Words, American Writing Services provides all instructors. For more information on our instructors, click here.
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