Audience
| Staff who regularly contend with multiple writing tasks under tight deadlines
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Description
| If you are having a hard time getting started or putting your thoughts together quickly, this workshop will help you improve your output! In this highly energetic, interactive course, you will learn to write with a can-do attitude essential to writing success. You will practice the PDQ Writing Process (plan – draft – quality control), beginning with techniques to overcome writer’s block and procrastination and continuing with the most effective ways to draft and rewrite messages under demanding time constraints. You will examine timeless methods to control your environment, manage your writing tasks, and communicate clearly with your collaborators to make the most of your writing experience.
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Scope
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- Approach any writing strategy with a useful strategy.
- Get started with a clear sense of direction--beginning with the end in mind.
- Learn techniques for hitting the ground running.
- Employ practical time-management techniques for reducing revision time.
- Cultivate a can-do attitude essential for writing fast and well.
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Materials
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- Writing in a Heartbeat course manual
- The Art of On-the-Job Writing book
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Enrollment
| Limited to 15 participants
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Consultant
| Philip Vassallo, Ed.D.
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Assessment
| Pre-course assessment of participants' writing skills is available upon request.
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