Rewriting Workshop

Dates:

5 March, 11 May, 1 October 2010 (a one-day course)

Price:

£365+VAT (a number of discounts are available)

Venue:

The Publishing Training Centre in Wandsworth, London (see a map and a list of local hotels)

Book course online or phone +44 (0)20 8874 2718 for availability

"There was just the right amount of theory and practice to make it interesting and interactive."

Discovery London delegate

"Teaching style was very informative and relaxed and the opportunity to discuss topics with industry colleagues was very helpful."

CUP delegate

Are you ever faced with writing that just doesn't work, or isn't quite right?

Do you ever feel that texts you're working on need radical changes?

If so, do you know how to identify what's wrong - and put it right?

This course will boost your confidence by showing you:

why a piece of writing doesn't work
strategies for improving pieces of writing
how to adjust the level and tone of a piece of writing
techniques you can apply to any text to enhance its accessibility and sense.

It's a practical course that will help you assess and improve texts efficiently and effectively. Combining hands-on exercises with group discussion, it will give you new skills and techniques that you can go on to apply to future problems.

You'll work on your own, in pairs and in a group, analysing the stylistic problems of different types of text, looking at a range of solutions and adjusting the presentation and construction to guarantee its most effective communication.

Programme

Identifying problems, considering solutions
Assessing message, medium, audience
Rewriting text
- To change the level
- To clarify the message
Analysing style
- To add copy
Maintaining the author's voice
Reducing the text
- Without simplifying
- In order to simplify
Editing text written in English as a second language
Sentence construction
Presentation
Specialist vocabulary
Editing your own work
Checklist - problems and solutions

Your tutor

After a spell in teaching and education research, Andrew Steeds worked as a publisher in three of the major UK educational publishing companies before going freelance in 1992. He now runs Simply Put, a company that offers writing, project management and consultancy to organisations that want to communicate more effectively with the full range of their readers.

Note that most of our open courses can also be run as in-company events.

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Dates: 5 March, 11 May, 1 October 2010

Price: £365+VAT (a number of discounts are available).

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