We offer The Write Start as a one-day public seminar once a month in New York.
Available seminar dates:
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March 6, 2012 |
April 10, 2012 |
May 12, 2012 |
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We Focus on You!
Every seminar is tailored to fit the people who are attending. You will hear advice that applies to the kind of writing you do every day. That’s because we get to know you a week before the seminar by reading five pages of your on-the-job writing. Your business writing coach determines what’s most important for you to learn and builds the seminar content around your needs and the needs of other attendees.
Your Personal Prescription
Not only do you hear what matters for you, you see it. You receive a written personal “prescription” based on your coach’s review of your writing. She prepares a Personal Action Plan with detailed comments and concrete suggestions for improvement. Our Icon-based Analytical System ensures that you learn exactly what you need to do.
Attendees place a high value on our Personal Action Plans. Among the comments we receive from participants, we often hear, “Now I understand what to do with my writing.”
We Respect Your Privacy
As a matter of training philosophy, we never expose anyone’s documents to public criticism. We also promise to keep all of your documents confidential.
Your Own Strategies
You apply new techniques to your own writing, not just to workbook exercises. From the five pages you send us, your writing coach chooses one as Your Working Sample. This is your benchmark for the day to help you track your progress. When you make your own decisions about your own documents, it’s easy to develop new writing strategies.
Your Writing Coach
Joy Van Skiver, president of The Writing Exchange, conducts all of our public seminars. Joy is the author of Simple Steps to E-mail Success, Selling on Paper—The Way to Write to Customers, The E-mail Companion, and Beyond Word(s)—What Your Grammar Checker Doesn’t Tell You. She consistently receives top ratings for her knowledge, her dynamic style and her personable manner.
Your Practical Resources
You will use the take-home materials long after the seminar to help you create documents that are clear, concise, correct and customer-focused. Attendees are impressed with the quality of the workbook, the Beyond Word(s) CD-ROM and The E-mail Companion. These materials have been tested by thousands of people for more than three decades — we know they work!
What You Learn
The Write Start is not a basic grammar course or a rehash of English 101. You will learn to:
- Begin writing without wasting time.
- Organize thoughts and data.
- Create a smooth flow of sentences and paragraphs.
- Edit quickly but comprehensively.
- Stop wordy habits.
- Project an assertive image.
- Avoid repetition and gobbledygook.
- Take less time to write.
- Design formats to keep the reader’s interest.
- Develop a more professional style.
Results You Can Expect
We can assure you that your investment of just one day will produce results. People often tell us they learned more from us in a morning than they did in two or three days at other writing programs.
Survey of Writing Exchange “Graduates”
Seminar Location
All of our public seminars are held in New York City at:
11 Penn Plaza, 5th Floor
New York, NY 10001
11 Penn Plaza is located directly across Seventh Avenue from Penn Station, between 31st and 32nd streets.
Fees and Discounts
The seminar fee is $785 per person, including all materials, breaks and lunch. If you register two or more people, a third person is free. You must register at the same time for the same seminar. If space is available, you can register within one day of the seminar by telephone.
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