Professional writing and editing
Your documents are coming back to you heavily edited, and you don’t know what you’re doing wrong. Your job applications are disappearing into the void, and you’re not getting interviews. You’re continuously rewriting your team’s reports to make them client ready. Your marketing materials aren’t landing right. You’re second guessing every email before you hit Send.
Does any of this sound familiar? The problem isn’t your ideas; it’s how you’re expressing them.
Every day, the cost of poor grammar and unclear writing is jobs, promotions and credibility. The good news? You don’t need to spend years mastering complex skills; you just need someone to teach you what you missed during your 12 years of schooling.
COURSE 1
Professional Writing: The Basics
An eight-hour boot camp in which you and your colleagues will learn the essentials of professional writing, including traditional grammar and all the punctuation marks, to make your writing stand out for the right reasons. In person at your workplace, or online, and flexibly delivered
COURSE 2
Twenty Hours with the Grammar Guru
10 × two-hour sessions, five × four-hour sessions in person at your workplace, or online, and flexibly delivered. Includes writing and editing your own examples to supplement mine. Very useful for technical writing
What you’re getting
Intensive skill building via not only education but entertainment | Pain-free learning of foundational grammar | The opportunity to gain the leading edge over your competitors, no matter your industry | Proof of why AI can’t replace the human brain
What you’ll learn
Best practice for professional writing and editing | Traditional grammar and all the punctuation marks | Easy ways to eliminate embarrassing errors | Top tips for clear writing | The principles of copy editing, including the standard marks that professional editors use
Course content
Using comprehensive course notes and unique colour coding of the key elements, you study subject, verb and predicate; active and passive voice; phrases, clauses, sentences and paragraphs; all the punctuation marks; the three ways to set up a bulleted list; the nine parts of speech; and how to solve major common problems and know whether more than one solution is acceptable.
The results you’ll see
Ability to explain and justify your changes and corrections | Confidence when writing, editing or proofreading any document – professional or personal | Improved chances of being employed or promoted | Access to the body of knowledge that a respected Australian grammar teacher and book editor has built up over a successful 35-year career
The investment
The cost varies because the options for delivering the course are flexible.
What people are saying
From people who completed a recent course:
‘Deb was amazing. She had a wealth of knowledge, and her course is highly recommended for people who are dealing with a lot of professional writing.’
‘The course was exactly what I needed, especially for work, and Deb Doyle explained everything perfectly and clearly. Thanks, Deb!’
‘The facilitator, course and venue were first rate. Additionally, Deb’s content was well presented and relevant to my needs.’
‘Loved the course and was really disappointed to hear that it was the last session of that course. AI is not a substitute for this sort of learning, especially when people in the class used AI to write and produced terrible pieces of writing. Deb was very knowledgeable and an excellent teacher. She had lots of patience with persistent questions and communicated the content clearly.’
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