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