This seminar is designed to be a painless review of how good sentences are constructed and punctuated, so that the writer’s message is clear and concise.

Objectives:

•  Getting started (overcoming writer’s block)
•  Commas, semicolons, colons, quotation marks
•  Detect and eliminate the most common errors in your correspondence
•  Examples of how spelling checkers can miss words
•  Standards of formal writing and ways to write informally
•  How to get your reader’s attention
•  How to write persuasively
•  Different ways to open and close letters
•  How to make your writing sound more personal, when appropriate

This will be a highly interactive seminar with many exercises.  Participants are encouraged to ask questions about any special problems they may have with grammar and/or punctuation - let’s face it, it has been a long time (if ever) since most of us took English writing in school.

This seminar is specifically targeted to those of us who create documents as well as those of us who edit and finalize them.

These classes are offered at no charge to WHOI employees, postdocs and students and are open initially only to WHOI personnel.  Non-WHOI affiliated individuals will be accommodated as space allows and will be charged a fee of $165 for this session.

To register, please use the on-line registration form at http://www.whoi.edu/education/stad, email training-SD@whoi.edu or phone
x3753.  For more detailed information on course content, contact Karen Rauss by email
(krauss@whoi.edu) or phone x2645.

Presented by the American Management Association - Fred Kniggendorf, instructor.