GUAA Presentation Slides Masterclass
Sometimes you only have a few minutes to make a lasting impression on a decision-maker, client, or colleague. If you overwhelm your audience with endless slides that all look the same, they’ll miss the important stuff, like What outcome are you hoping for? What do you want your audience to do? What do you want them to remember?
In this workshop, you’ll learn how to use audience awareness as a tool to distill complex concepts, eliminate overcrowded slides, and guide your audience to what’s most important. This workshop focuses on written messaging and isn’t a graphic design class, but we will talk about how to organize the content on your slides for maximum audience impact.
Center for Plain Language: Meetup to Discuss Generative AI and Plain Language
Join Center members and fellow plain language advocates for a round of informal, small group discussions on the uses of generative AI in plain language. This is not an instructional webinar or class. Rather, we want to hear from you about your questions and best practices when it comes to gen AI and plain language. This discussion will help guide our future programming and panel topics.
Whether you and your organization are already actively using generative AI tools and have robust guidelines, or you’re new to the topic and want to learn from others, this meetup will facilitate discussion and resource sharing among the plain language community of practitioners.
Writing and Editing for Communicators
When you approach a new writing task, do you know what will make your final product “good” and exactly how to make that happen? Or, have you learned your professional writing skills through trial and error, hoping for the best, or getting heavy edits from others? Maybe you like the idea of improving the “flow” or “tone” of your writing, or reducing your “wordiness” and being “engaging”—but what do those things really look like in action? Where can you actually find them in a draft?
In this course, you will learn to use a three-part framework for better edits that Bold Type LLC instructors have taught to thousands of professionals in our training programs.
Concise Copy Edits
Learn to quickly and confidently edit your documents for better sentence-level clarity. You'll know how to be efficient and where to focus editing attention during quick turnarounds.
We will explore:
Where to focus your editing attention for clarity, brevity, and word choice at the sentence level
When and how to use tools for readability measurements and proofreading as part of your editing arsenal