Improve Your Writing &
Streamline Your Communications Planning

Technical professionals the world over typically struggle writing clearly, concisely, and effectively.

No wonder. They’ve received little if any writing training. They often settle for simply being heard, versus being truly understood. And more often than not they underestimate the amount of time required to produce well written material and, finding themselves time constrained, cut corners.

There’s A Practical, Fast, and Effective Remedy For This:
Writing Training & Planning Workshops From WN&A

Hundreds of scientists and engineers in companies and organizations including EPRI, Pacific Gas & Electric Co., the California Public Utilities Commission, Kaiser Aluminum, Southern Research Institute, and chapters of the ASME, ASCE, AEE, and SAME—among a host of others—have benefited from Bill Nesbit’s 30-plus years of experience as a writer and communications trainer.

You can too.

Three courses are offered: Techniques to Improve Your Writing (And Help Others Do the Same), Strategies for Evaluating & Editing Material Written By Others, and A Process for Planning and Managing Technical Communications.

As A Writer You’ll Learn:

  • How to recognize and avoid problems characteristic of most technical writing
  • How to build a strong foundation for your writing—80% of the challenge
  • The characteristics of good writing and how to achieve it—the other 20%

As A Manager You’ll Learn

  • A strategy for ensuring that your peers and subordinates understand their material and your perspectives on it before they begin to write
  • The importance of crafting checklists of requirements for all authors to review and adhere to before their material comes to you for review/approval
  • Guidelines for two levels of reviews: cursory and comprehensive
  • The importance of crafting a template format to use in relaying your review comments to authors

As A Communications Planner You’ll Learn

  • The benefits of formal communications planning
  • Key steps and variables in program planning, staffing, budgeting, and scheduling
  • The art of crafting sound assumptions
  • Considerations in contracting with technical writers and editors, and how to streamline the process of assessing, selecting, and working with them

Each course is presented at your preferred location by WN&A’s principal, Bill Nesbit, and each can be tailored to meet your organization’s specific needs and markets.

Click Here to learn how you and your organization can benefit. All inquiries receive a  copy of Bill’s article “Contracting with Technical Writers and Editors: Why, When, and How” as it appeared in the ASCE’s journal, Leadership and Management in Engineering.