Rewriting Workshop

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Rewriting Workshop


Dates:

20 May/14 October 2008 (a one-day course)

 

Price:

£349+VAT (a number of discounts are available)

 

Venue:

The Publishing Training Centre in Wandsworth, London (see a map and a list of local hotels)


Book course online or phone +44 (0)20 8874 2718 for availability

 

"There was just the right amount of theory and practice to make it interesting and interactive."

Discovery London delegate



Are you ever faced with writing that just doesn't work, or isn't quite right?


Do you ever feel that texts you're working on need radical changes?


If so, do you know how to identify what's wrong - and put it right?


This course will boost your confidence by showing you:

 

  • why a piece of writing doesn't work
  • strategies for improving pieces of writing
  • how to adjust the level and tone of a piece of writing
  • techniques you can apply to any text to enhance its accessibility and sense.

 

It's a practical course that will help you assess and improve texts efficiently and effectively. Combining hands-on exercises with group discussion, it will give you new skills and techniques that you can go on to apply to future problems.


You'll work on your own, in pairs and in a group, analysing the stylistic problems of different types of text, looking at a range of solutions, and adjusting the presentation and construction to guarantee its most effective communication.

Programme

  • Identifying problems, considering solutions
  • Assessing message, medium, audience
  • Rewriting text
    • To change the level
    • To clarify the message
  • Analysing style
    • To add copy
  • Maintaining the author's voice
  • Reducing the text
    • Without simplifying
    • In order to simplify
  • Editing text written in English as a second language
  • Sentence construction
  • Presentation
  • Specialist vocabulary
  • Editing your own work
  • Checklist - problems and solutions

 

Your tutor
After a spell in teaching and education research, Andrew Steeds worked as a publisher in three of the major UK educational publishing companies before going freelance in 1992. He now runs Simply Put, a company that offers writing, project management and consultancy to organisations that want to communicate more effectively with the full range of their readers.


Note that most of our open courses can also be run as in company events.


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Dates: 20 May/14 October 2008

Price: £349+VAT (a number of discounts are available).

Venue: The Publishing Training Centre in Wandsworth, London (see a map and a list of local hotels).

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Course title:
Rewriting Workshop
Course price:
£349 +VAT
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20 May,14 October 2008