Re: Teaching a writing class for co-workers

[Anthony Davey <ant -at- ant-davey -dot- com>]

Ashley,

Good luck.  I went to a similar class a few years ago; "How to write 
articles that people want to read".  It was populated by people that 
already wrote for a living and it took two days.

However, to make your editing job as easy as possible (as Keith said, 
you don't want to, nor will you be able to teach them the fundamentals 
of writing in one hour) do include the five Ws (four Ws and one H).  Not 
the usual who is this about, what is it about, where and when did it 
happen, etc. so much as who am I writing this for, why would they want 
to know it, when would they use it, etc.

That way perhaps you will get the type of information that the potential 
readers of the newsletter will be interested in.  There's no point 
editing articles that won't get read and it's a waste of your time 
trying to extract the useful information from a diatribe on "how 
wonderful this 'feature' of our software is that we've developed", when 
only two customers may ever use it to its full potential.

Just a thought,  hope it helps.

Ant

Ashley Gottfried wrote: