Public Sector Writing Skills

Stop slogging through patchworks of outdated academic experiences and thick style manuals to make every editing call! This course focuses on content, design, and information placement. You’ll learn logic processes rather than memorize rules, so you can make the right grammar choice in every context.

This course provides a great foundation for writing in the regulatory environment. In active workshop activities, we’ll take you through the writing process from planning to publication in one day.

Do you want to write without error or ambiguity and engage colleagues and customers?

You’ll learn how to reduce complexity in directives, procedures, and regulations for your customer, using plain language. We cover the grammar all workplace writers must know, in a relaxed and simple way. This active workshop will energize you and equip you to write well in any role.

Millions of people depend on public agencies to make sound decisions that impact their lives.
Leaders rely on concise briefing papers that convey all options and the risks and benefits posed by each.
This course equips subject matter experts like you to convey this information well.

If you provide documents intended to inform busy decision makers, you must align your work with decision makers’ priorities. This course equips you to provide relevant information in terms decision makers seek. You’ll gain writing skills to convey complex concepts clearly and concisely.

We focus on summary skills, telling powerful, short data stories, and writing content that works well for those who don’t know what you know. We offer this course as a single-agency course only, tailored to the needs of your division.