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Core
Courses
Specialized
Courses
Legal
Writing
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Core Courses
from
The Writing Consultants
Effective
Writing for Professionals
Grammar
Booster
Report and
Proposal Writing |
Effective
Writing for
Professionals
Offered as
a webinar and
customized for your
progressive work
environment, this
core course will
give your staff the
essential writing
and communication
skills to produce
quality work for
your organization.
Improve
Your
- Memos
&
Email
- Letters
- Proposals
- Reports
- Journal
articles
- Presentations
and Speeches
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Topic
Highlights
- Know
your target
audience
- Outline
before
writing
- Draft
on a roll
- Edit
for correct
grammar,
spelling, and
punctuation
- "Defog"
your writing
- Write
in clear,
concise,
jargon-free
language
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This course is
custom-designed for
ten to 100
participants.
Curriculum copies of
WRITE
THIS WAY: A
Guide to
Effective
Writing are
provided
with the course.
Grammar
Booster
Grammar
can be fun! This is
a "refresher" course
for staff who wish
to improve their
proofreading and
editing skills and
gain confidence in
their everyday use
of the English
language.
Learn to
- Identify
the parts of
speech and know
how they
work
- Recognize
and correct
sentence
fragments, comma
splices, and
fused
sentences
- Spot
incorrect
pronouns, faulty
parallelism,
dangling
participles, and
other grammar
gremlins
- Use
correct
punctuation and
all that
"jazz"
- Learn
how
understanding
grammar can lead
to a more
sophisticated
style
Curriculum
copies of WRITE
THIS WAY:
Grammar and
Punctuation
Booster are
provided with the
course.
Be
Brave! Try our
Test in the
links on the
left.
Report and
Proposal Writing
The
Business Report or
Proposal is the most
tangible way for
your clients to
assess the value of
your work. This
course will help
your staff design
expert reports and
winning proposals
that are
reader-oriented,
well-structured, and
concisely written.
Ask for details!
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Specialized
Courses
Email &
Brief Letters
Writing with
Style
Private
Coaching
Email
& Brief Letters
Email, brief
letters, and other short
messages form the backbone
of office communication in
the millennium. But all too
frequently such
correspondence is the source
of ambiguity and
misunderstanding. This
course will teach both the
novice and experienced
writer how to structure and
compose clear, concise,
polite, short messages.
Learn to
- Understand the
psychology and etiquette
of quick messaging
- Adapt a friendly
and personable tone
- Pre-plan and
draft for even the
shortest note
- Edit quickly but
accurately
- Use concise and
accessible language
This
webinar is offered for six to
100 participants. It includes
curriculum copies of a
specially designed module of WRITE
THIS WAY: A Guide to
Effective Writing.
Writing
with Style &
Pizzazz
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Sophisticated writing begins
at the sentence level! This is
an advanced course designed to
help professionals write with
clarity and pizzazz. Conducted
as a single writing workshop
or a series of workshops, it
will include writing and
editing exercises that
concentrate on the attributes
of uncluttered, emphatic, and
graceful style.
Participants
should submit a writing
sample for evaluation prior
to the course. Individual
consultations with the
instructor about work in
progress will be
welcomed.
Private
Executive Coaching
The Writing
Consultants' one-on-one
executive tuition can give
you the personalized
attention you require! These
private consultations, held
at your convenience and
based very specifically on
the material you write, will
teach you to articulate your
professional expertise with
confidence and to sell your
ideas with aplomb.
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Legal
Writing
Legal Writing
with Aplomb for Lawyers
Effective Writing
for Legal Professionals
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Legal
Writing with Aplomb for
Lawyers
Lawyers
in
the millennium must be
responsible from start to
finish for their own writing
tasks. No longer can they be
certain that someone else
will research, write, or
edit important documents for
them.
Learn
how to write with power,
precision, and pizzazz! This
course will focus on upbeat
writing suitable for today’s
busy readers of the law. The
hands-on session will include
practical models, effective
exercises, and editing
pointers. Refresh and polish
your writing style so that it
becomes light, bright, and
persuasive — writing that will
allow you to present your
ideas and your firm with
aplomb!
Effective
Writing for Paralegals, Law
Clerks, and Support Staff
Do something
special for your Legal
Professionals! This course
will teach the essentials of
writing, proof-reading, and
editing work from start to
finish. It is a must course
for the professional and
personal development of your
staff.
At least once a
year, courses for Lawyers
and Paralegals are offered
through the Law Society of
Ontario.
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