Effective Writing

Training & Development, Feb, 2001 by Marieke Steuben

** 1/2

Effective Writing: 2 hours, US$95. Publisher: Maxim Training

This course's detailed question-and-answer format keeps you involved. Maxim Training explains how to structure and draft documents and make effective word choices. Maxim also offers a readability formula that's cumbersome and more trouble than it's worth. For most of the course, you watch a draft document move through revision stages, and that's the problem; you just watch. The course quizzes you periodically, but answering multiple-choice questions about editing doesn't teach you how to write or edit.

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