2059 Educators providing Writing courses delivered Online

Gateway College

gateway college

“Research conducted by the Royal Mail concludes that spelling mistakes and poor grammar cost UK businesses more than £700 million a year, the Cabinet Office puts the figure even higher at £10 billion” 40% of British companies feel that the lack of literacy amongst their employers, including graduates, is costing them money. Hours are wasted ploughing through confused and confusiing documents. And even worse, business is lost through poorly written proposals and sales pitches. At Verve Training, we believe that our business writing courses provide a powerful solution to this problem. Our clients come from every sector and include major organisations and corporations such as the NHS, Virgin, and BAE Systems Detica; and also smaller niche companies and groups such as Global Maritime and the General Dental Council. Business Writing Courses How Verve Training Can Help All of our business writing courses are supplied on a bespoke basis so that we can tailor the training to your precise needs. Each course provides a unique level of practical training which carefully reinforces the theory of each module with writing exercises. We offer both group courses and one-to-one coaching. Verve delivers training across the UK and abroad. What makes our business writing courses uniquely effective is that they are taught by respected professional writers and journalists working in the national media today, who are highly practised both at producing clear, concise documents and in passing those skills on to others. We also have specialised trainers to teach writing courses to employees with a technical or scientific background, who often face slightly different challenges in learning to communicate effectively. We are so confident in the value of our business writing courses that unlike most training companies, we offer a full money back guarantee on all our writing courses. In addition to our business writing courses, we have a number of other communication courses teaching media training and presentation skills. Verve also offers a full corporate video service, producing everything from short promotional pieces to longer more in-depth films. If you would like more information on any of our business writing o

Linda Mcphee Consulting

linda mcphee consulting

London

Last modified: 04/10/2019 International courses and workshops for researchers writing for refereed journal publication Great writing is not primarily about grammar or even about word choice. It’s about structure, and more specifically about putting information where readers have been trained to see it. However, this is not what most people are taught. Writers are often handed a lot of “rules” that do little or nothing to improve their writing. You probably know them: Avoid passives. Vary your language. Shorten sentences. Paragraphs must have an explicit topic sentence, 3 supporting sentences and a concluding sentence. Jargon sounds academic. Data equals thinking. Write the way you talk. Fix your grammar and you’re fine. Word choice is everything. Sentences should be under 29 words long. Never start a sentence with but, however or because. Never split infinitives. And so on… These are both disempowering and (in the main) untrue, yet many teachers continue to dish them out. This course is different – really different. In the 10-week course, five class sessions are concerned with structures that will help participants produce a first draft. The next five sessions cover, in detail, a dynamic system for altering that first draft, making it understandable to others without following any of the above ‘rules’. The intensive 5-day course begins with a first draft, and consists of morning group sessions based on that draft, followed by afternoons revising (first for structure and content, but in the last three days also for readability). A selection of topics will be omitted from the 5-day course. The course continues with email support as needed until the article is submitted to a refereed journal (and through the entire revision and acceptance process)