Rate your writing skills
New tool lets you score, improve and track your writing skills
by Ann Wylie, president, Wylie Communications Inc.
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How do your writing skills stack up?
Find out with Wylie Communications’ new writing assessment. This free yardstick will help you identify where you are and how to get to the next level. Plus, you’ll get free tips and tools for improving your skills.
In these days of enormous changes in media technology, vast increases in information overload and almost complete transformation in readership habits, monitoring and improving your writing skills is essential.
Take the next step
Not where you want to be yet? Use this tool as a professional-development yardstick. Here’s how:
- Identify your most urgent skill — something you need to do well every day, but that you couldn’t give yourself the highest marks on.
- Focus on developing that skill for the next six months. Read books and articles, attend workshops and teleseminars, or do whatever you can to master that single area of expertise.
- Retake the assessment and identify your next area for development.
- Repeat. As you continue to polish your skills, revisit this assessment every quarter or so. You’ll track your progress and identify the next area to focus on for improvement.
That’s what the best writers — the masters of their craft — do.
Good luck!
Polish your writing skills
Want to master the art of writing better, easier and faster?
- Check out Ann’s Power Pack of learning tools.
- Get more than 1,750 tipsheets for improving your writing at RevUpReadership.com.
- Find Ann’s out about Ann’s upcoming writing teleseminars and workshops.
- Bring Ann to your organization for a writing workshop.
- Work with Ann to improve your writing skills in one-on-one writing coaching sessions.
- Subscribe to our free writing tips e-zine.
About Ann Wylie
Ann Wylie is president of Wylie Communications Inc., a training, writing and consulting firm. She works with communicators who want to reach more readers and with organizations that want to get the word out. Wylie is the author of RevUpReadership.com, a toolbox for writers, and Wylie’s Writing Tips, a free e-zine. She has earned more than 60 awards, including two IABC Gold Quills, for her work.
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