Effective Business Writing Workshop

Margaret Austin, Write Limited, Wellington

Improve your professional writing skills with this course

Learn how to write documents that work - from brief emails to lengthy reports! This workshop is suitable for anyone who has to write business documents, from a range of organisations including businesses, government departments and community groups.  

Do you want to quickly improve your writing skills? This workshop will show you how to immediately connect with your reader by using better words and organising your thoughts more clearly.

This practical workshop will help you to:

• write from your reader’s point of view
• use an appropriate plain English style
• structure a document effectively
• present a document attractively
• identify the strengths and weaknesses of your own writing.

Workshop topics include:

• choosing words that work - using precise familiar words, deleting surplus words, using verbs rather than nouns, using an appropriate tone
• using short simple sentences
• using a logical, well-considered structure - planning before you write, using headings to guide your reader, making action statements clear

This is an interactive, hands-on workshop. Please bring along some of your own writing to work with during the workshop (no commercially sensitive content).

Includes lunch, morning and afternoon tea and a comprehensive workbook.

About Write Limited and Presenter Margaret Austin

Write Limited, based in Wellington and established in 1989, are New Zealand’s plain English writing specialists. Write Limited people are highly qualified professionals with many years’ experience helping people from businesses, the public sector and not - for - profit organisations to communicate clearly.

Margaret Austin is a trained teacher who has been with Write Limited since 2002. She is one of the company’s leading trainers in writing for businesses. Margaret says of herself:

‘I come to Write Limited from a background of theatre, dance and journalism. I’m also an impassioned wordsmith happy to share my experience of plain English. I love the changes plain English can make — to your documents, to the way you think about and organise your writing, and to your ability to get your message across.’

Email us to ask about our next Effective Business Writing workshop.

Terms:  Please register early. A fee of $50.00 will apply for re-scheduling or cancellations received prior to 5 working days before the course. No refund for cancellations received within 5 working days of the course.  Substitutes from the same organisation are permitted at any time prior to the course at no cost.  Venture Group reserves the right to cancel or reschedule the course. You will be sent confirmation of registration and an invoice for payment upon receipt of your registration form.