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Does your writing staff need top-flight professional help? Could you use some up-to-date instruction from an instructor who has more than 30 years of writing and teaching experience?

If so, JPROF -- Jim Stovall -- is available for seminars, workshops and critiques.

Drawing on his wide range of experience, Stovall can conduct critiques and seminars on the following topics:

Writing (including some of the topics below)

Writing in a professional environment

The basics of good writing

• News -- the first step in communicating

Can't live with 'em, can't live without 'em -- grammar, diction and style

• Professional standards (news stories and press releases

• 5 minutes to better writing

Attacking wordiness

• Prevent disease -- give your writing a healthy lifestyle

• The four characteristics of all media writing

• Looks are important -- A writer's guide to design)

• The Web: new media, new writing?

Editing

• Basics of copyediting

• Attacking wordiness

• The importance of style

• Developing a local stylebook

Design

• The principles of visual logic

• Layering information

• Beyond the paragraph -- building informational graphics

Web journalism

• Writing for the web

• Taking advantage of the power of the web

• Designing for the web

This is just a partial list of topics where JPROF can help you improve your internal and external communication. If you are interested in these or have special needs where we can help, email us at jstovall@jprof.com.


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