Advanced Writing Skills

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Welcome to the e-resources for effective writing

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Learn the principles of writing skills that help you to draft precise, concise reports, emails and articles. Writing is difficult to master but there are some principles you can learn to help keep your writing neat and precise.

One of the skills of a good writer is to be able to report issues clearly, concisely, and in a way that grabs the reader’s attention right from the start. It’s a skill that carries real benefits in the workplace. We need to write documents that are attention-grabbing and succinct. We also need to ensure that we have all the important information clearly summarised right at the beginning. These key writing skills encourage us to focus on what’s important so that the reader does not get stuck in over-long communications.

As with any communication including writing skills, you want your messages to be received and understood. This means front loading your texts so that the reader immediately get the points you are making. Also, your communications will stand out from ponderous and wordy ones! S a reader is more likely to pick your reports out of the pile on her desk in future.

We strongly believe that writing skills are an essential area of development for staff. Is your company a learning organisation? Read our article on learning and development http://www.communication-director.com/issues/are-you-learning-organisation/#.VTZUJtKqqko

Here you will find the modules of writing skills and the communications and management courses that we offer. We work with public sector and corporate clients in Brussels, across Europe and internationally. If you are not currently studying with us – get in touch with us, we would love to train you and your colleagues in-person or online. If you wish to organise a writing course in-person or online for a group of staff please contact us on info@formativecoms.com

Part 1: Principles of Clear Writing

Clear Writing – some principles
Clear writing is about being able to edit your first draft of a text to make your sentences precise. Here we look at sentence structure, word choice and grammar. We…
The Editing Checklist (PowerPoint)
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Paragraphs and Topic Sentences
Explore how we can make our writing clear by using topic sentences in our paragraphs. Paragraphs … Writing Topic Sentences Topic sentences summarise your entire paragraph within the first sentence…

Part 2: Structure and Organization

Reports and Messages Upfront
Report and Messages: One of the skills of a good writer is to be able to report issues clearly, concisely, and in a way that grabs the reader’s attention right…
Organisation and Planning
Organisation and planning will save you time in your writing. Learn the steps that you can take to plan, draft, edit and fine tune your writing so that your texts…
Managing the Writing Process
Learn how to manage the writing process with team members. We rarely write business documents from scratch or in complete isolation. Usually, we work with teams and redraft older versions….
Writing Structure (PowerPoint)
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Part 3: Readers and Messages 

Readers – Audience Analysis
We cannot write for everyone. A principle of effective communications is that our written and oral communications should be based on key messages and targeted as much as possible to…
How to Write Clear Messages
Effective writing is driven by clear messages. Sometimes it feels like an art but there is a system we can apply to structuring the messages that we want the outside…

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