Writing to Achieve Results

Notes:

Speaker: Bill Woodington, CPA, CIA, Professional Trainer

CPE Credits: 4

Training Overview:

Over the course of this 4-hour training, William “Bill” Woodington will share the building blocks of Writing to Achieve Results. This workshop is an interactive learning approach to writing. It educates from an auditor approach on an intermediate level. This is not a beginner’s writing course.

Topics include:

• Writing Basics: Determining Audience and Purpose (Wanted Results)
• Mind mapping: Organizing for Results
• Transparent Structure: Making Reading Easy (Using Apparent Structure Tools)
• Cutting the Clutter (Editing Redundant Words)
• Making Sentences Make Sense (Rewriting Sentences)
• Reviewing What We’ve Learned Findings and Recommendations)
• Passive/Active Voice Comparison
• Evaluating Examples: Where the Rubber Meets the Road
• Agreements with Antecedents
• Getting Verbs to Agree with Their Subjects
• Parallel Construction
• Using the Gregg Reference Manual
• Editing & Proofreading