LIVE Lecture Overview
Clear Writing is Powerful Writing
(Conversation leader: Jacqui Banaszynski)
In this conversation, we’ll review the imperative to make writing clear and focused, and the common challenges to achieving that. We’ll pay particular attention to how that needs to be considered in speciality or technical fields.
Topics:
- Identifying your primary audience and platform
Writing in the language of the audience
Capitalizing on the publication platform
- Identifying the key point of the piece you are writing
Getting quickly to the point
Using secondary material to support that point
- Defining and identifying jargon
Solutions: Putting jargon in context, explaining or eliminating
Using hyperlinks
- Making terms or issues relatable
Using examples, metaphor and analogy