Writing for Government and Business: Critical Thinking and Writing

Writing for Government and Business: Critical Thinking and Writing

How to Compose Clear and Effective Reports, Letters, Email, and Memos

Writing for Government and Business: Critical Thinking and Writing

Writing for Government and Business: Critical Thinking and Writing

Do you need to improve your writing skills? This intensive one-day course helps you, and your staff, understand the three dimensions of professional writing: organization, format and style.

Our writing courses are designed for those who want to improve their writing, including agency staff who want to improve their writing and comply with the Plain Writing Act of 2010 (H.R. 946) and Executive Orders 12866, 12988, and 13563.

In addition to reviewing and teaching specific writing techniques, our faculty show you how to:

  • Apply critical thinking to the writing process
  • Use plain English and the active voice
  • Be concise
  • Develop an effective writing style

Our writing courses have been described as “really about how to get better job reviews and get promoted” because they help you improve one of your most important, and visible, job skills: written communication.

Communication skills are the key to efficient and effective operations in business and government. New employees should brush-up on their basic written communication and plain English skills, while experienced professionals, burdened by the additional workload caused by downsizing and budget cuts, can also benefit from this refresher course.

Lessons focus on writing as a process and ways to apply that process to everyday assignments. Previous attendees include all staff levels including program managers, scientists and engineers, administrative assistants, legislative and budget analysts, vice presidents, paralegals, executive directors and attorneys.

Space is limited.

For more information about this live Writing Workshop offered in Washington DC, see TCNWW.com

Bring this course to your staff.

This course and any combination of its topics are available as custom training, on-site or online, for your organization. We have tailored this course for attorneys, program analysts, administrative assistants, scientists, and others in agencies, and think tanks.

When customized for government agencies, materials can include government correspondence manuals and style guides. We have also developed a custom “Writing Congressional Correspondence” program for federal agencies.

For more information about how this Writing Workshop can help your members or staff, please complete our Custom Program Information Request form.






For more than 40 years, TheCapitol.Net and its predecessor, Congressional Quarterly Executive Conferences, have been teaching professionals from government, military, business, and NGOs about the dynamics and operations of the legislative and executive branches and how to work with them.

Our custom on-site and online training, publications, and audio courses include congressional operations, legislative and budget process, communication and advocacy, media and public relations, testifying before Congress, research skills, legislative drafting, critical thinking and writing, and more.

TheCapitol.Net is on the GSA Schedule, MAS, for custom on-site and online training. GSA Contract GS02F0192X

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