Make your point! Learn practical techniques to improve your ability to influence and obtain results through clear and effective writing – whether you write a technical report, a strategy document or a professional email.
This five -week online course is designed to improve personnel ability to effectively write a variety of documents thanks to increased sensitivity to language, structure and content.
Introduction
This five -week online course is designed to improve personnel ability to effectively write a wide variety of documents thanks to increased sensitivity to language, structure and content. Participants will be exposed to a variety of techniques for writing documents adapted to the public and which have an impact.
The course presents an innovative learning approach. All participants will follow two webinaries, during which effective documents for writing documents applicable to any type of documents will be explained. After these first two weeks, on which participants will have a clearer vision of their learning priorities, they will have two options for the remaining three weeks.
They can either decide to follow a “General writing skills” Path, mainly focusing on the writing, examination and management of daily communications, such as emails. Or they can decide to follow the “Report skills in writing” path. Participants cannot follow both paths, only one can be selected.
The course is provided by Brett Shapiro, writer and professional journalist with significant experience as editor -in -chief of the United Nations System Organizations.
Goals
Once the success of this course is successful, the participants will be:
- Identify the goal, the reader and the context of the project and prepare it accordingly, by organizing and developing the ideas and concepts entirely.
- Recognize and avoid writing, grammar and linguistic errors as well as unnecessary words.
- Reproduce techniques and apply skills to write a piece adapted to readers and incisive, without compromising style and professionalism.
- Get an effective methodology and support techniques, to examine the work in order to ring the documents, structurally coherent, linguistically concise, grammatically precise and visually attractive.
- Write e-mail texts and more effective object lines, as well as distinguish and use different key languages and tones or formality levels for different types of emails
Course methodology
This course is fully provided online. It combines live webinaries sessions, led by an expert in matters, with activities at your own pace and interactive group discussions.
The weekly webinars headed by instructors are made in the online zoom platform. Participants need a computer (or a mobile device), a reliable internet connection and a helmet with a microphone to connect to the audio via the computer or a phone. We recommend that you access audio via the computer. No special software is required; But participants must be able to access Zoom. We will send instructions for access to the zoom to recorded participants and recommend that you download the application and test your access to the advance.
The components and the discussion forum at your own pace for each week of the course are designed and structured on Unkampus, the UNSSC learning platform.
Depending on the path you decide to follow, the webinaries will take place from 2:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Rome time (8:30 am to 10:30 am, New York time) on Monday (general path of writing skills) or Tuesdays (path of reporting skills).
The approximate time commitment to participate fully in this course (finish pre-work, attend webinaries, forum discussions, etc.) is 4 to 6 hours per week (2-4 hours of preparation + 2 hours of webinar).
Course content
Week 1 (all participants) – Writing effective documents I: Process and startup.
- PRE-ADVICE strategies and considerations (including linguistic considerations) required to write a first project with a clear sense of orientation, message and voice.
Week 2 (all participants) – Drafting of effective documents II: Linguistic jungle.
- Approaches, techniques and skills to express an idea with maximum clarity.
- The emphasis on the conviviality of readers, but not to the detriment of professionalism.
- Additional linguistic problems (for example, nominalizations, passive voice) will be resolved.
Week 3:
Path of general writing skills – Email composition.
- Formulate the appropriate object line, opening and closing;
- Internal and external communication;
- Determine the tone / degree of appropriate formality;
- Human touch above all.
Skills reporting skills – dense, dense, the densest.
- Explore the linguistic constructions and the most common traps that have a longer reader or documents arrested.
Week 4:
Path of general writing skills – do things correctly.
- How to best organize complex information in an email;
- Email project that contain negative messages;
- Diplomacy;
- The “me” correspondence against “you”.
Report of writing skills – Beyond the text: structure, format and graphics.
- Importance of a friendly structure and format, and miss insurance, use – and abuses – acronyms, graphics, graphics, tables, text zones and photographs.
Week 5:
Path of general writing skills – Examination of your work and basic label by e -mail.
- Quality insurance techniques to ensure structural consistency, linguistic clarity and convincing messages.
Path writing skills report – Revise and refine your work.
- Methodologies to ensure structural integrity and attractiveness, linguistic clarity, convincing messages and rereading techniques.
Target audience
All United Nations (professional and general service staff) at headquarters and locations in the field.
Participation cost
The price costs of $ 1,100 covers a full participation in online.
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