In this Module:
- Working language
- The needs of your reader
- Building sentences
- Joining ideas together
- Spelling, punctuation and grammar
- Summaries
- Words or pictures?
Summary
Clear writing starts with getting the content right. But it is also about expressing it in the right words put together in the right way, as briefly and simply as possible.
Thinking about the reader’s needs, and putting things in a logical order with clear connections between ideas, will help you to get your message across successfully. And some of the most effective writing also makes use of images: pictures, photographs, diagrams or charts.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
When you have completed this module, you should be able to:
- State the ABC of writing
- Choose the correct words
- Build sentences correctly
- Join ideas together
- Use punctuation correctly
- Understand how images help to get the message across.
