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Thursday, May 3, 2007
"A
Simple Approach to Writing Clearly"
By Susan Becker
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Program
Description
Whether you write embedded user assistance for web applications,
API docs for programmers, or white papers for marketing, you
need to construct the clearest possible sentences. You might
have learned to do this in your freshman English composition
class, and you probably do it easily most of the time, but
you may not quite realize what you are doing or remember why
it works. And let's face it: we can all learn to write better.
In this evening's program, Susan Becker presents a simple
approach to writing clearly. You will learn to find the subject
and verb of a sentence, pick the best sentence subjects, and
sharpen the focus of your paragraphs. Your writing will improve!
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About our Presenter
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Susan Becker has
countless years of experience as a contract technical
communicator, writing manuals and developing online
user assistance (Codewords).
She is currently involved in a phone-based usability
study, ongoing editing of Swedish financial reports
(no, not in Swedish), and a user assistance project
for a start up company that is creating a new type of
electronic metering device with supporting software.
She is a former Touchstone director and a past winner
in the competition. This year she won an award in the
Berkeley Chapter's competition for a hardware test procedure
she developed at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
(SLAC). Susan is a past president of the San Francisco
STC and the current web team leader.
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