This two-part webinar presented by Stu Walesh, Ph.D., P.E., Dist.M.ASCE, D.WRE Author of Engineering Your Future -The Professional Practice of Engineering, provides simple suggestions to help you write with consistency, efficiency, and accuracy according to your own writing style. This webinar offers some participants a personalized review of their writing style and suggestions for immediate improvement.
TOPICS:
- The complete communicator
- Speaking versus writing
- Types of written products
- Profiling the audience
- Defining the message
- Style guides
- Writing starts on Day 1
- Brainstorming, mind mapping, listing, outlining, and incubating
- Retaining the outline
- Writing the easy parts first
- Selecting the person
- Gender neutral, active - not passive
- Less is more
- Rhetorical techniques
- Tin ear
- Trimming hedges
- Flexible format
- Lists
- Standard maps/diagrams
- Format writing
- Writing milestones
- Appearance
- Citing sources
- One more time
- Responding to editing and editing the work of others
- Resources for additional study
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