How to Excel at Editing

How You Will Benefit
Your organization’s image will improve. If your outbound and web materials don’t reflect quality, people won’t expect your products or services to have quality either. This program will help you greatly reduce the misspelled words, incorrect grammar, poorly worded sentences, outdated letter and memo styles, and other problems that hurt your organization’s image.

You’ll save time. You’ll eliminate the worry about punctuation, spelling, proofreading and correcting errors. No more searching through dictionaries, asking others for advice, and retyping correspondence because of grammatical errors.

You’ll save money. According to the Dartnell Institute of Business Research, the cost of the average business letter is now as much as $18.54. At that rate, not one person in your group can afford to waste time.

You’ll be more confident. Confidence is critical to productivity. This workshop will not only improve your skills, it will make you feel better about yourself, your career and your written output.

Possible Topics

• Using proper grammar and effective sentence structure

• Avoiding negative words

• Clarifying and writing more concisely

• Using punctuation properly

• Recognizing and avoiding common spelling errors

• Distinguishing between commonly confused words

• Making sure words agree in person, number
  and tense

• Using proper comparatives

• Capitalizing and abbreviating properly

• Writing numerals accurately

• Improving proofreading skills

For more information, contact your local speakers bureau.