1. Writing Tips for Presidential Assistants NAPAHE ANNUAL CONFERNCE March 2013

2. Getting Tips as Presidential Assistants NAPAHE ANNUAL CONFERNCE March 2013

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

5. Read Read Read

6. Stay Informed

7. Cultivate Your Sources

8. Public Relations

9. Think of the Audience

10. Who’s Talking?

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

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

13. Speechwriting? Chapter 7

14. Keep Files Quotes Ideas News articles Prior works

15. Be original, but

16. DRAFT!

17. Reciprocal Editing Or, You show me yours…

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

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

20. Profread Carefully

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