Effective Writing Workshop: Level Two
CPEs: 14
|CEUs: 1.4
Classroom
Who Should Attend
All Federal employees and contractors who want a business writing course designed to help them consistently produce professional documents.This course is for individuals who are confident in the basics of grammar and writing and wish to take their professional writing skills to the next level.
Recommended Prerequisite: Effective Writing Workshop: Level One
Course Objectives
- Enhance your ability to write documents that communicate information more clearly, logically, persuasively, and professionally.
- Take your writing to the next level and become the writer that your supervisor chooses for important assignments.
- Write all of your documents with clarity, organization, and, when necessary, persuasiveness.
- Identify the elements that good writers include in their writing.
- Write effective sentences that provide all necessary and relevant information for the reader.
- Construct organized paragraphs that include topic sentences, supporting information and details, and transition phrases.
- Plan and build your documents while considering the purpose, audience, and scope.
- Understand why active voice is usually preferred over passive voice.
- Learn to write effectively for a variety of audiences.
Course Agenda
Day One
- Steps to the Writing Process
- Managing Phases I, II, and III
- The Methodology of Writing
- Critical Thinking in Clear Writing/ Key questions
- Five Significant Skills
- Key Functions of the Mind
- Audience Awareness
- Essential Components of English Grammar
- The Eight C’s
- Getting the Message from Brain to Page
Day Two
- Review and Reflections (R&R)
- Elements of Reasoning
- Avoiding Fallacies
- Organizing Ideas/ Outlining
- Capturing the Audience
- Clear Writing and Writing with the Quality of Cohering
- Intonation or Inflection to Writing
- Writing a Thesis
- Practical Application of Professional Writing
- Group Presentations