Details
Summary:
This workshop will help you make bad writing good, good writing great and spot embarrassing and potentially costly mistakes – without offending your clients and colleagues.
This workshop will be delivered online as a virtual classroom.
Event Type: Virtual Classroom
Address: Virtual Classroom, Virtual Classroom
Trainer: Lorraine Forrest-Turner MPRCA
Event Overview
*The course fee advertised includes a 35% discount in order to continue to support businesses during this period of disruption.
Proofreading and editing other people’s work can often feel like a thankless task. It’s difficult, time consuming and few people appreciate being told their work is full of mistakes or that you’ve had to chop it in half.
How attendees will benefit:
You’ll recognise what makes good writing good so you can correct bad writing more easily.
You’ll be able to explain to others why you’ve made the changes you’ve made.
You’ll feel more confident challenging other people’s mistakes.
And you’ll learn the common grammatical, punctuation and spelling errors so you can watch out for them.
Who should attend:
The course is for anyone who edits and/or proofreads their own and/or other people’s writing. It’s particularly suitable for people who edit newsletters, magazines, web copy, press releases and proposals.
What attendees will learn:
• The differences between editing and proofreading
• The role of structure and message in writing good copy
• How to cut copy and make the message stronger
• Replacing empty words and clichés with useful words and sincerity
• Why verbs are more important than adjectives • Common grammatical errors and how to prevent them
• The skills required to be an effective proof reader
• The importance of style guides
Special delegate instructions
Delegates should have with them an early draft that requires editing and/or proofreading.
PRCA Virtual Classroom
The PRCA virtual classroom replicates as close as possible the experience of face to face training. You will see, hear and be able to speak to the trainer, interact with other delegate and complete activities online throughout.
We have redesigned our face to face courses to take advantage of this great and easy to use technology. You will have frequent breaks throughout and activities to complete. Learning from home has never been easier or more effective.
What do you need?
A computer or mobile device with reliable internet access, a comfy chair and a headset if you have one.
How do I access the virtual classroom?
Just like a webinar, we will send you the login details and you will need to log in using those instructions. This virtual classroom will run on the date and time advertised here