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Polishing Your Writing Through Self-Editing
(One-day workshop)
Date(s):
Aug 13 | Sep 16 | Oct 24 | Nov 21 | Dec 3
Instructor(s): Deborah Sauer | Elinor Celuzza
Description
This program is for experienced writers who want to improve their writing by strengthening their self-editing skills. Through editing exercises and peer interaction, this workshop will teach you to view your writing objectively and identify what can be improved. You'll learn to think about your purpose, message, audience, and voice. You'll learn to revise your style and tone, eliminate wordiness and jargon, use transitions effectively, and correct grammatical errors. You'll develop concrete editorial strategies that you can apply to the daily writing of memos, reports, and proposals.
Intended Audience:
This program is for experienced writers who want to improve their writing by strengthening their self-editing skills. Through editing exercises and peer interaction, this class will teach you to view your writing objectively and identify what can be improved.
Topics Include:
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- Lesson 1: Viewing Your Writing Objectively
- Exercise: Colorific
- Exercise: Top 5 Writing Concerns
- Exercise: 10 Minute Write
- What Makes Good Writing?
- Classes of Editing Changes
- Exercise: Peer Review
- Lesson 2: Purpose, Audience, and Voice
- Exercise: Discerning and Clarifying Purpose
- Voice and language passages
- Lesson 3: Appropriate Organization
- Organizing Your Writing
- Exercise: Organization
- Transitions
- Exercise: Brainstorming
- Additional Organizing Exercise
- Lesson 4: Polishing for Style
- Rules for Written English
- What's Wrong with This Picture? – Parallelism
- Exercise: Parallelism
- Tense Shifts
- Exercise: Shifting Tense
- Writing in Active Voice
- Exercise: Passive Voice
- Sentence Structure Errors
- Avoiding Primer Language
- Exercise: Edit Yourself
- A Little Perspective on Wordiness
- Redundancy
- Wordiness or "Flabby Phrases"
- Smothered Verbs and Other Words / Exercises
- Business Jargon / Double Speak
- Exercise: Redundancy / Jargon
- Exercise: Edit Yourself
- A Shortcut to Good Style
- Final Self-Editing Review / Two Examples
- Lesson 5: Supplement – Grammar Review
- Parts of Speech / Exercise
- Dangling and Misplaced Modifiers / Exercise
- Restrictive and Nonrestrictive (That/Which) Clauses / Exercise
- Guidelines on Subject-Verb Agreement / Exercise
- Case: Pronoun, Nominative, Objective, Possessive
- Who or Whom? / Exercise
- Guidelines on Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement / Exercise
- Punctuation Rules / Exercise
- Lesson 6: Guidelines on Usage – Appendix
- Using Sensitive Language / Exercise
- Lesson 7: Annotated References
- Dictionaries
- Style, Usage, and Grammar References
- Technical References
- Editing References
- Language and Grammar Sites
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To learn more about nSight training programs and for assistance, please contact our Training department at 781-273-6300 or Training@nSightWorks.com.
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