Workshop: Polish Your Prose: Grappling with Grammar & Punctuation May 20, 2009

3 CPE Credits

Business professionals who strive for excellence don't want their communication tarnished by embarrassing mistakes in grammar, punctuation, and style. Polish your prose with this important skill-building workshop. This upbeat, interactive session focuses on the most common situations that cause writers to pause. Learn:

-Six easy-to-remember grammatical principles and the most common punctuation mistakes
-How to get the most out of a stylebook -- an indispensable writing resource that all business professionals should have on their desk
-To differentiate active vs. passive
-About dangling modifiers, whether you need a comma before and, and the difference between such confusing pairs as affect/effect and continuous/continual

Speaker: Ken O'Quinn is a corporate writing coach and author of Perfect Phrases for Business Letters (2006, McGraw-Hill). He established his consulting practice, Writing with Clarity, after 21 years in journalism. His clients include Chevron, Texaco, Campbell Soup, Visa, Oracle and Intel.

NCHRA Members: $130 / General: $165.

Official Website: http://www.nchra.org