These are a few of our favorite slides
At Wylie Communications, we’re getting ready for our 2020 Master Classes. With that in mind, I wanted to share some of my favorite slides from our workshops:
Writing skills
Splitting headache
Are split infinitives still a grammar don’t?
It may be the most famous split infinitive of all time — Star Trek’s opening-sequence voice over:
“To boldly go where no man has gone before”
That’s a split infinitive, because the adverb “boldly” separates, or splits, the verb “to go.”… Read the full article
Master plan
Help readers recall your message
When you organize your copy logically, readers can read it more easily and get more out of it.
Or so says Bonnie J.… Read the full article
Ann’s running out of time
Time to book 1st quarter 2012 workshops
Have you been thinking about bringing me in for a writing workshop early next year?
If so, let’s act fast.… Read the full article
How has technology changed our writing skills?
Do the tools we use matter?
Tears welled and teeth gnashed after the world’s last office typewriter factory — Godrej & Boyce in Mumbai, India — announced that it would close.… Read the full article
Make Ann your personal trainer
Pump up your writing with one-on-one coaching
Ever wish you had a writing coach — sort of a personal editorial trainer? In customized one-on-one consultations, I’ll help you jump-start your writing skills, recharge your batteries and get your creative juices flowing.… Read the full article
Rev up your writing
Check out the new RevUpReadership.com
We’ve revved up RevUpReadership.com, the toolbox for writers, is now better than ever. Now she’s faster, friendlier and more fascinating — not to mention waaaaay better looking.… Read the full article
Writing report card
Make sure your copy makes the grade
Too often, the job of producing communications leaves little time for considering what you’re doing well and what opportunities you have for improvement.
So your writers can’t write?
Five ways to help struggling communicators
“What’s worse than training your workers and losing them? Not training them and keeping them.”
— Zig Ziglar,
motivational speaker
I was having lunch with the vice president of corporate communications at a California-based Fortune 500 company when the topic of bad writing came up.… Read the full article
Consulting
Create engaging, effective publications with Wylie Communications Inc.’s consulting services.… Read the full article