Presenter: Lisa Moretto, President of RGI Learning

Author of “Get to the Point” monthly article in RES Magazine

This 16-hour course is similar to the content Lisa teaches during a full semester on a college campus. The format allows participants to practice the skills on real-life work situations and receive personal feedback.

This event will take place from 8:00am to 12:00pm on:

Thursday, Nov. 8th

Tuesday, Nov. 13th

Thursday, Nov. 15th

Tuesday, Nov. 20th

Topics Covered:

• Organizing the shorter writing task, for letters and email
• Identifying and focusing the reader’s attention on the main message
• Deciding the purpose of the message: to persuade or to inform
• Differentiating between “need to know” and “nice to know” information
• Creating a confi dent image by sharpening writing style
• Eliminating vague, ambiguous, and wordy expressions
• Writing clear, concise and complete documents
• Writing short reports: incident, progress, inspection, fi eld trip, and project completion
• Arranging facts for maximum impact and logical order
• Incorporating information design techniques to create an attractive and easy to read document
• Understanding common grammar and punctuation problems
• Using numbers and abbreviations correctly
• Organizing the longer writing task
• Writing and organizing long reports, investigations, evaluations, and recommendations
• Writing reports for multiple-audiences with different levels of subject knowledge
• Planning and writing informal and semiformal proposals
• Writing an Executive Summary
• Using e-mail effectively and professionally - “Netiquette” techniques

Lisa has been presenting to engineers for 19 years. She is a member of the IEEE and the STC. She and has

co-authored 6 college-level textbooks on technical communication. Lisa is a frequent invited conference presenter

to technical societies. She presents courses to engineers throughout the US and Canada and is an

Adjunct Professor at RIT.

Call or email Lynne Irwin at 585-254-2350 (res@frontiernet.net ) to register. Space is limited to 25 participants