Are you trying to pin down an idea for a great children's book? Or are you grappling with grammar and struggling with everyday proofreading? Check out the courses that Rita offers:
Lunch Hour Writing Tips
Bring a little spice to your company's lunch hour with some fun, fast-paced professional development. Rita's 12 Tips for Better Workplace Communication will help your employees write more clearly.
Clear Writing
Whether you want your business correspondence to be clearer or your personal writing to shine, you'll find these courses will make you a better, more confident writer:
Rita will next offer these sessions as part of her Writing 101 Bootcamp series at Metro Continuing Education on May 4-5. She will also design private or group tutorials to address your questions and issues.
Kids' Book Basics: Writing for Children and Teens
What's a concept book? A YA novel? A good way to start a story for teens? How do you plot? Create believable characters? Avoid the saggy middle? Together with author Karen Spafford-Fitz, Rita offers industry tips, insights and suggestions.
Week 3 Culture Mind Map
Week 4 Industry Links
Lunch Hour Writing Tips
Bring a little spice to your company's lunch hour with some fun, fast-paced professional development. Rita's 12 Tips for Better Workplace Communication will help your employees write more clearly.
Clear Writing
Whether you want your business correspondence to be clearer or your personal writing to shine, you'll find these courses will make you a better, more confident writer:
- Maximize Your Message: Do you struggle to shape email, letters and web text that produce the business results you want? In this session, you’ll first learn how to focus your business writing by identifying your message, audience and tone. We’ll then discuss how to use organization and structure to create a more cohesive written product.
- Communicate With Clarity: Explore the clear writing techniques and essential grammar skills that effective business writers use. Gain confidence in a friendly classroom environment as you learn about active voice, nouns, verbs, misplaced modifiers and much more. This session will help you write sentences that make sense, and identify and eliminate the junk words that bury your message.
- Polish Your Proofreading: Plural or possessive? Capital or lowercase? Comma or semicolon? Learn about punctuation, common spelling mistakes in business writing and more with practical exercises and interesting examples that will help you produce clear, polished text.
Rita will next offer these sessions as part of her Writing 101 Bootcamp series at Metro Continuing Education on May 4-5. She will also design private or group tutorials to address your questions and issues.
Kids' Book Basics: Writing for Children and Teens
What's a concept book? A YA novel? A good way to start a story for teens? How do you plot? Create believable characters? Avoid the saggy middle? Together with author Karen Spafford-Fitz, Rita offers industry tips, insights and suggestions.
Week 3 Culture Mind Map
Week 4 Industry Links