Writing Tips for Presidential Assistants NAPAHE ANNUAL CONFERNCE March 2013.

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Writing Tips for Presidential Assistants NAPAHE ANNUAL CONFERNCE March 2013

Getting Tips as Presidential Assistants NAPAHE ANNUAL CONFERNCE March 2013

Functional Resume? What do you spend the most time doing?

Read Read Read

Stay Informed

Cultivate Your Sources

Public Relations

Think of the Audience

Who’s Talking?

Who Writes What To Whom? Minutes Resolutions; Citations Letter to Government Officials Letter to Aggrieved Parent Letter to Aggrieved Professor (Staff) Tuition Letter

Who Writes What To Whom? Policies Op Ed White Paper/State of the Campus Accreditation Report Speech to Alumni Speech to Community

Speechwriting? Chapter 7

Keep Files Quotes Ideas News articles Prior works

Be original, but

DRAFT!

Reciprocal Editing Or, You show me yours…

Grammar Counts Subject/object/verb agreement Impact vs. affect/effect Repeated words

Elements of Style, etc. Short sentences, usually Important points early Topic sentences Transitions Read aloud Don’t use etc.

Profread Carefully

Good [writing] comes from experience and experience comes from bad [writing]

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