Tuesday, May 11, 9 a.m.–4 p.m.
Capital Hill Hotel & Suites, Mackenzie Room, 88 Albert St., Ottawa

Instructor: Frances Peck

Clear, concise style is the backbone of strong writing. It’s also the product of lots of cold, hard revision. This seminar presents a variety of stylistic techniques to help language do its job. We’ll look at how to create flow, eliminate sloppy shifts and inconsistencies, link ideas using parallelism and subordination, tighten sentence structure, and trim wordiness. Through discussion, examples, and exercises, we’ll examine surefire methods for polishing any type of document.

Frances Peck is an editor, writer, and instructor who has taught editing and writing for over 20 years. She prepared the Canadian edition of The St. Martin’s Workbook, a university-level grammar exercise book; recently completed Peck’s English Pointers, an e-book for the Translation Bureau; and is a regular columnist for the journal Language Update. A Vancouver resident, Frances is a partner with West Coast Editorial Associates. She also teaches editing at Douglas College and Simon Fraser University.

Registration closes: April 30, 2010, at 4 p.m.

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