This course will cover the rules of English usage, the principles of style, commonly misused words, and skills in the valuable art of communicating succinctly.

Course overview

Written communication often provides clients and stakeholders with their ‘first impression’ of your staff and your organisation. In addition, written material can be a record of communication and may be kept and referred to in the future for a variety of reasons including contractual negotiations, Freedom of Information requests, or legal matters. Therefore, it remains vital that people have and maintain strong writing skills.

During this workshop, participants will build on their existing skills in terms of grammar and sentence structure, identifying and writing for a specific audience, expectations in terms of common APS documents, and editing written material.

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