Seminars: Writing and Polishing Effective Procedures

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Great procedure writing should be effortless to follow. This seminar teaches the vital ingredients necessary for well-written and easy-to-read procedures, from simple desktop instructions to extensive user manuals. Participants learn a fast and effective method for planning, writing, testing, and editing procedures that makes it effortless for users to follow. It is designed for anyone who writes documentation and wants to deliver the message with clarity and professional polish.

Whether you're writing for technical or non-technical groups, you'll learn what determines whether a set of procedures is used as a valuable guide or collects dust setting on a shelf. An analysis of a well-written procedure manual will show you 15 factors that make for a readable and useable document.

This seminar is designed to ensure mastery of procedure writing.

Like other Berry Writing Group seminars, this seminar offers customization and follow-up support to ensure mastery of these techniques. This is how it works.

1) Pre-seminar Analysis: Each participant submits a procedure that they have written or want to rewrite. We suggest ways to highlight key ideas and simplify the organizational style. We also identify specific procedure formats that will make their procedures easier to read and write. This analysis and feedback prepares participants with specific writing skills to work on and makes the transfer of learning quick and easy.

2) Seminar Session: The focus is on improving participants' actual procedure writing skills. They are amazed at how quick and easy it is to rewrite their pre-seminar writing samples using our feedback as a guide to write more clearly.

3) Follow-up Support: For up to one year after the seminar, participants are invited to send writing samples by fax or e-mail to Berry Writing Group for comments and suggestions based on the principles of Writing and Polishing Effective Procedures.

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