- This Webinar was originally broadcast on:
- December 13, 2012 Enroll Now
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Course Overview
- Title:
- Clarity is Key: Making Writing Clean and Concise
- Type:
- Webinar
- Cost:
- $29.95
- Originally Broadcast On:
- December 13, 2012
- Time Estimate:
- One hour for the main presentation and questions. Sometimes presenters stay longer to answer additional questions from participants.
This Webinar is $9.95 for members of the American Copy Editors Society (ACES). Watch your member email to get details about the discount.
About Webinars
In this virtual classroom, participants can join in a seminar led by Poynter faculty and visiting faculty. This screencast includes live audio and a slideshow presentation in which participants can post questions and respond to poll questions posed by the host.
Great content isn’t great if readers don’t understand it or abandon it because the writing is too complicated or verbose. Even when – especially when – it’s about complicated issues, news writing needs to be clear and easily understood. Writing often gets muddled, and sources aren’t always concise. Whether you’re an editor or editing your own writing, this Webinar will help you cut through clutter and let the content shine.
What Will I Learn:
- How to get rid of redundancies
- To condense prepositional phrases into single modifiers
- How to use stronger verbs and nouns
- How to make complicated sentences clearer
- How to ensure that your writing flows smoothly
Who Should Take this Course:
Reporters, authors, editors, freelance writers, bloggers and anyone looking to refine their writing.
Course Instructor:
Lisa McLendon
Lisa McLendon is the coordinator of the Bremner Editing Center in the University of Kansas journalism school, where she also teaches news writing and editing. She has worked as a copy editor at the Wichita Eagle and the Denton (Texas) Record-Chronicle, and also serves as the conference vice president of the American Copy Editors Society.
Training Partner:
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