WRITING SKILLS Zanete Garanti Lecturer University of Mediterranean Karpasia
About the teacher Zanete Garanti Office: AKUN main building, room 202 Telephone: /8 (113) Mobile phone:
About the course This course is designed to help you with a practical writing skills. In this course you will learn to: prepare posters, take notes, develop CV, coomunciate via letters and s, summarize, quote, paraphraze, prepare an essay and a report.
What is practical writing? PW is different from GW mainly beacause when you use PW: each type has a regular form, simplicity in style, its briefness in form.
1. Posters and notices When to use posters, How to prepare posters, How to prepare small notices, Practice.
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Posters can be used for: Presenting research News or information Decoration Advertisement Identification Direction Warning
What is a Poster? 8 Successful
A Successful Poster ClearRelevantConcise Successful Posters 9
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Readability and empahsis Choose your font and size carefully (6 m rule), Avoid using complex fonts, Type size can create hierarchy and create contrast, Try not to overuse CASE, bold, underline, Italic.
Colors can empasise your message
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Which programs to use? For simple posters: Microsoft Word (tutorial: Paint, PowerPoint. More complex programs: Illustrator, Photoshop, Special programs.
Task You will create poster in groups. You will present it to the class.