Teaching techniques: teaching professionals to write better

The author outlines her approach to teaching professionals how to improve their writing. She describes some of the barriers that make it difficult to teach adults writing techniques and then explains her strategy for overcoming these barriers. The key is to get course participants to work on their o...

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Published inIPCC 98. Contemporary Renaissance: Changing the Way we Communicate. Proceedings 1998 IEEE International Professional Communication Conference (Cat. No.98CH36332) Vol. 2; pp. 391 - 396 vol.2
Main Author Schmolka, V.
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 1998
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Communication effectiveness
Education
Writing
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Summary:The author outlines her approach to teaching professionals how to improve their writing. She describes some of the barriers that make it difficult to teach adults writing techniques and then explains her strategy for overcoming these barriers. The key is to get course participants to work on their own writing samples. Then they cannot avoid the truth-their writing can be improved. The last section of the paper sets out the three themes that the author promotes in her "reader-based" approach to clear and effective writing: (1) think of your readers; (2) write for your readers; and (3) ask a sample of readers to comment on your draft text.
ISBN:9780780348905
0780348907
DOI:10.1109/IPCC.1998.722124