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Core
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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
Customized
for the progressive work environment, this core course will give your
staff the essential writing and communication skills to produce quality
work in the millennium.
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 designed for six to twelve participants with post-course
follow-up for each person. Curriculum copies of WRITE THIS WAY: A Guide to Effective Writing are
provided with the course. ESL tutoring is available for staff for whom
English is a second language.
 New: Ask about Note Taking.
We've developed an
exciting module to teach your staff this important "thinking" skill.
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"
- Understand sophisticated style to make it happen
This
workshop-style course is designed for six to twelve participants.
Curriculum copies of WRITE THIS WAY: A
Grammar Booster are provided with the course.
Participants should expect homework!
Be Brave! Try "Test!" in the links on
the home page.
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.
Learn to
- Avoid the three most deadly errors in report and proposal
writing
- Match the document to your clients' needs
- Outline and structure the document before writing
- Develop a bottom line format to produce a point-first
document
- Use appropriate language, correct grammar, and effective
punctuation
- Include charts, graphs, citations, and appendices
appropriately
- Present your report or proposal with aplomb
This
workshop is designed for six to twelve participants and includes the
curriculum WRITE THIS WAY: A Guide to
Effective Report and Proposal Writing.There will be
ample opportunity to share ideas, practise new skills, and develop
sample documents.
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Specialized Courses
Email & Brief Letters
Proofreading Writing with Style
Private Coaching Lit
& Lunch
University Prep
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
workshop is designed for six to twelve participants. It includes
curriculum copies of a specially designed module of WRITE THIS WAY: A Guide to Effective Writing.
Proofreading for Accuracy & Clarity
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Although
the grammar tools in our word-processing programs are designed to help
us, often the confusing terms make these tools useless.
Learn
how to understand your grammar checker and to spot and correct such
gremlins as
- commonly
confused words
- double
negatives
- format
errors
- jargon
mania
- passive/active
verb usage
- pronoun
errors
- punctuation
errors
- readability
or "fog" problems
- sentence
structure errors
- spelling
beyond the spell checker
- verb-tense
inconsistency
Writing with Style &
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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.
Lit & Lunch: Literature-Appreciation Seminars
Do
something special for your staff! Lit
& Lunch is a chance for your staff to stretch their minds and
invigorate their souls through the triple pleasure of beautiful
literature, stimulating discussion, and good lunch!
University Prep with Deirdre
Flynn
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If
you are a student applying to private universities in the US, to
specialized undergraduate programs in Canada, or to professional
schools, let Deirdre Flynn help you articulate
your strengths in powerful application essays and
letters.
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target your desired
universities • structure your essays coherently
• identify your
strengths
• revise your
drafts effectively
• focus your critical messages
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create a lasting, positive impression
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Legal Writing
Legal Writing with Aplomb Effective
Writing for Law Clerks |
Legal Writing with Aplomb
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 Law Clerks
Do
something special for your Law Clerks! 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, this course for law
clerks is offered through the Law Society of Upper Canada. Click on
this link to see the latest!
Write
This Way: Effective Writing for Legal Professionals
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