Editing skills

General duration

3 hours

Target group

This is a very practical program based totally on work related to the participants. Prior to the program, the facilitator will call for examples of work that the participants are required to edit. Participants will then work through many examples of the work to identify breaches of the principles, and how to improve them.

Learning objectives

At the completion of this program, participants will be able to identify specific ways to improve the readability and comprehension of written work.

Course content

This program will cover:

Eight writing principles
- Short sentences
- Main message first
- Conversational style
- Active voice
- Use fewer words
- Use of pronouns
- Tone
- Formatting
Identifying the principles and correcting them in others’ work