by Leslie O'Flahavan | Feb 21, 2016 | Uncategorized
Writing Resources Purdue University’s Online Writing Lab (OWL) Grammar exercises Punctuation exercises Spelling exercises Sentence structure exercises Eliminating wordiness exercises ESL exercises Preposition exercise 2. Guidance on how to use articles (a, an, the)...
by Leslie O'Flahavan | Feb 16, 2016 | Uncategorized
by Leslie O'Flahavan | Jan 26, 2016 | Uncategorized
List of files for Westat Managing Writing course on January 27, 2016 E-WRITE Cover Sheet: Managing Writing & Mentoring Staff Writers WESTAT, 27-28Jan2016 E-WRITE Manual: Managing Writing WESTAT 27Jan2016 E-WRITE Handout: MStapleton Proposal 2Versions WESTAT...
by Leslie O'Flahavan | Jan 6, 2016 | Featured, Plain Language Writing Courses, Writing Matters Blog
Over the last six months I’ve been involved in a dream-come-true project. For the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), I developed a full writing curriculum—a set of eight different writing courses—and taught each of the courses at least twice. This project...
by Leslie O'Flahavan | Dec 18, 2015 | Clients
by Leslie O'Flahavan | Mar 20, 2015 | Social Media Writing Courses, Writing Matters Blog
Last week, I stayed at the Hotel Allegro in Chicago. My stay was OK, maybe a C minus. The hotel’s under construction, the wi-fi was sketchy, you have to leave the hotel to go to its 312 Chicago restaurant, and the room was really small. I might stay there again,...
by Leslie O'Flahavan | Feb 9, 2015 | Writing Matters Blog
I’d like you to meet Courtney Reyers, Director of Publishing at the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI). Courtney has just led NAMI through the two-year process of re-thinking, re-architecting, re-writing, and re-launching the NAMI.org website. (During that...
by Leslie O'Flahavan | Aug 5, 2014 | Uncategorized
E write how-to-explain-technical-topics-to-non-technical-readers-first_american_17sept2014 from LeslieOflahavan E-WRITE – Six Easy Ways to Improve Your Email Writing Skills from LeslieOflahavan ...
by Leslie O'Flahavan | May 2, 2013 | Whitepapers & Tools
Trying to coach or train customer service agents to write high-quality live chat to customers? Show them what works and what doesn’t in these real chat transcripts from companies including Nordstrom, Comcast, Zappos, and Earthlink. I’ve included my...