An On-Site Class for Your Employees
We teach your employees to how to write user instructions, reports, and proposals people want to read—documents that give the reader valuable information, quickly. Students in this workshop learn how to get to the point, present only useful information, and write correct English. This class hits the high points from our former 12-week technical writing schools.
This class vastly improves the quality of e-mails, reports, bids, Web content, and procedures your employees write. Students do exercises to improve the documents they produce now, for your company's customers.
Attendees receive our PowerPoint slides with 25 best practices the best professional writers follow to produce short, clear, attractive reports, proposals and procedures.
Taught by Dorothy Webster, M.Ed., former Technical Writer, Technical Publications Manager, Founder of the first private vocational school for technical writing, and President of Webster Techwriters, a premier national placement agency for writers.
Our History Teaching Technical Writing
At our nationally accredited tech writing schools in San Francisco and Santa Clara, we graduated 385 new technical writers from 1996 to 2002. Most still work in the field, some as tech pubs managers. This on-site class utilizes what we learned from our 'brick and mortar' schools, and continue to learn from our online course on this website, 'How to Do Tech Writing:' people from all backgrounds CAN learn to write direct, correct English.
Customized for Your Writers
In preparation for your class, we receive writing samples from each student, assess each document, and make recommendations. We teach your writers based on our analyses of their work they do now at your company.
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What the Class Covers Each student gets a binder with the writing improvements we teach such as:
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How to start
Students learn a method for getting started, covering important points, and never again writing useless paragraphs.
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Use active verbs
This technique makes each sentence (and document) clear, direct, and 33% shorter.
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What to capitalize
People don't know when to capitalize a word, and when not to. |
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Write correct English
Where to include articles (the, a, an), commas, apostrophes, and hyphens.
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Cost
$3,000. for a one-day class includes:
- Examining the writing your company produces now
- Preparing exercises based on students' writing
- Class delivery
- Handout of rules to follow
$5,000. for a two-day class, with one-on-one tutoring (recommended)
For companies outside of the Bay Area in California, we charge additional, reasonable travel expenses. |
