Communicate!

How you write has become as important as what you write. Complex issues, frustrated clients, unsure colleagues and demanding attorneys all dictate that your writing skills reflect mastery of the medium. This seminar will help you to materially improve your writing!

Martha Faulk’s practical, enthusiastic approach to the critical subject of business and legal writing draws unrestrained praise from professionals in every venue where she appears. She demonstrates tactics to improve your writing style and revise it for clarity and impact.

Individual exercises (optional, but highly recommended) focus on actual documents — letters, reports, e-mails — and will help you analyze your routine business writing. Faulk shows you how to use the tools of effective writing to present yourself in a compelling and winning style.

Flawed writing will compromise your effectiveness. Learn how to recognize and improve both ponderous language and faulty organization.

Faulk is a gifted instructor, who will coach you and your colleagues toward a winning style of writing by sharing simple techniques you can use to let your mastery of the legal process shine through. Build your foundation for successful business and legal writing now.

Highlights

• Get the desired response from your writing.
• Master the ten commandments of clarity.
• Discover a practical method of sentence analysis.
• Recognize the benefits of a psychological approach to readability.
• Appreciate a reader’s response to tone.
• Learn to edit your work and that of others for maximum effect.

Program Outline & Schedule (3 hours)

[Part I: 90 minutes]

• Focus on problem areas
• E-mail checklist
• Appropriate tone
• Sentence analysis

[15 minute break]

[Part II: 90 minutes]

• Review of sentence analysis
• Editing exercise
• Legal language
• Conclusion

[Adjourn]