| Title | Topics |
Not your father's e-mail: Improve your e-mail practices
| Should you e-mail?
The best writing process for your e-mail
Legalities (privacy, liability)
Netiquette
Efficiency in e-mail |
| The writer's annual checkup | Diagnose your writing
Perform liposuction on your sentences
Improve your white-space count
Therapy for your passive sentences
Gender changes for sexist language
10 things your English teacher never taught you |
Bite the bullet: How not to kill your presentation with your slides
“Ralph Wallace has been positively raving about the session you gave at the District 26 conference, and asked me to follow up with you to see if you would consider presenting at Regional.” Nancy S. Starr-Cassidy
Conference Coordinator
Toastmasters
| Should you present your message in slides?
Organize your message
Words on the screen
Visuals on the screen
What to avoid in PowerPoint®
How to handle the technology to your advantage |
| 12 things your English teacher never told you | English usage has changed since you were in school, and new technology has modified how we interact with each other using language. Learn 12 quick tips you can apply right away to make your writing more complete, consistent, clear, concise, and correct.
Topics include:
- Create acronyms your readers can understand
- Use "that v. who" correctly
- Use "that" to introduce your branching clauses (yes, I’ll tell you what that means!)
- Use color carefully in your documents
- When not to use "myself" (as in "Joe and myself invite you to a webinar")
- Avoid justifying your text
- Avoid applying underlining and all caps to your text
- Use the best typeface for your document
- Use one space after end punctuation
- Avoid random acts of capitalization
- Avoid Microsoft(R) Word pitfalls
- Format numbers correctly
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| Project manage your writing | "Plan" comes before "Write" in the dictionary!
Learn and practice a 5-step writing process for your individual writing projects and your group projects as well:
 Prewrite
Draft
Get feedback
Revise
Edit/proofread |
| Tactics for preparing text for translation | How much do you understand about how to prepare your text for translation (and save translation costs)?
In this presentation, you will hear about ten tactics for preparing for translation, and you'll get to practice a few. |
That's a good question!
“You gave an absolutely wonderful presentation at this month's meeting - one of the best that I have attended and I learned so much. The handout is invaluable.” Tammy VanBoening
Membership Chair
Society for Technical Communication
Rocky Mountain Chapter | Ever found yourself wishing you could ask more questions? Or ask just the right questions? This lively, interactive presentation encourages you to ask questions and teaches you how to ask them. Perfect for shy people (especially engineers). |
