• Email• Minutes• Resolutions; Citations• Letter to Government Officials• Letter to Aggrieved Parent• Letter to Aggrieved Professor (Staff)• Tuition Letter
Who Writes What To Whom?
• Policies• Op Ed• White Paper/State of the Campus• Accreditation Report• Speech to Alumni• Speech to Community
Speechwriting? Chapter 7
Keep Files
• Quotes• Ideas• News articles• Prior works
Be original, but
DRAFT!
Reciprocal Editing
Or, You show me yours…
Grammar Counts
• Subject/object/verb agreement• Impact vs. affect/effect• Repeated words
Elements of Style, etc.
• Short sentences, usually• Important points early• Topic sentences• Transitions• Read aloud• Don’t use etc.
Profread Carefully
Good [writing] comes from experience and experience comes