Who should attend:
Professional, technical, management and supervisory staff who wish to update and refine their knowledge of the writing and editing process and the best business styles.

Key topics:
• improve professional image and credibility with a crisp
  compelling style
• reduce business documents by up to 50%
• update letter, memo and short report formats
• practise the process of drafting, organizing, editing and
  polishing
• use business journal writing to generate ideas and fluency
• revise material using the CLARITY formula
• tailor messages to specific purposes and audiences
• package your writing for visual appeal and readability
• incorporate finishing touches: executive summaries, visual
  signposts, quality layout and design

Special features:
• detailed written feedback about the strengths and
  weaknesses of your writing
• personal conference to discuss your writing
• peer review feedback

Who should attend:
Lawyers, judges, articling students, law students, other employees who help prepare legal documents.

Program features:
• A written analysis and conference on the strengths and
  weaknesses of your writing on both text and design aspects
  of plain language (you submit up to 5 pages of your writing)
• Current materials and references: 150-page workshop
  manual, A Plain Language Glossary for Lawyers, CLARITY
  Deskminder, and Business Writing Journal
• Practice in writing several drafts of work-related writing;
  practice in applying peer editing techniques
• Updates on current formats in business writing and recent
  reform literature on legal writing
• Analysis of the best legal styles for different audiences
• Discussion of sophisticated syntactical and usage problems
• Focus on key topics of audience sensitivity and "translation"
  activities
• Team-taught by an instructor team of a writing specialist with
  a graduate degree in language development and years of
  teaching writing to adults professionals, and a lawyer with
  experience in teaching writing
• An intensive 14-hour learning experience with 1 1/2 hours
  writing on the first evening