Effective Government Writing

Course ID: 136                         Course Length: 2 day(s)

Overview:

Clear, simple, and concise writing is critical to the success of any individual or organization. Participants gain an understanding of what constitutes good writing, and how to write to get the desired results.  Everyone who wants to hone writing skills-professionals, technical people, managers or support people will benefit from this timely workshop.

Objectives:
At the end of the workshop participants should be able to:

• Organize and outline what they want to say
• Recognize their role as communicator
• Analyze their readers’ needs
• Write to produce the desired reaction or outcome
  from the reader
• Express themselves in writing clearly, concisely,
  and correctly
• Develop their unique writing style

Topics:

• Consider the reader
• Planning and organizing material
• Effective openings, transitions and closings
• The importance of tone
• Paragraph organization
• Using the dictionary
• Writing in the active voice
• Powerful verbs
• Gunning Fog Index-do you use "gobbledygook?"
• Wordiness and redundancy
• Parallelism is important
• Styles of writing
• Rewrites
• Writing to get responses

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