University of Washington Human Resources

Live online session

Class content will be delivered via live Zoom session(s) with supplemental materials.

Description:

Do you have a message you want to deliver or a story you need to tell? Would you like to learn how to communicate more effectively with your readers? This course will lead you through the process of writing and revising a piece of writing to make it clearer, more coherent, and more compelling. Participants will use strategies from technical writing, creative writing, and composition to help you hook your reader and keep them engaged. In this course, participants will identify different kinds of writing used by professionals and analyze what makes that writing effective or ineffective, practice identifying your intended audience and crafting your writing to engage that audience, learn to craft a piece of writing that is well-organized with a coherent message, and identify common writing pitfalls and revise your writing to avoid them.

Instructor: Christina Scheuer