Led by world-class writers and editors, ClearWriter writing workshops fit the needs of every organization—businesses, law firms, universities, and government agencies.

View a sample agenda for a two-day writing workshop.

Writing workshops—blended training for concrete results
ClearWriter workshops are often supplemented with online exercises, so that the instructor can concentrate on the most difficult concepts in the classroom. This blended approach increases learning and retention. And since workshop participants retain access to our online course library, a refresher is just a click away. ClearWriter workshop participants also receive ClearEdits, our editing software that works with Microsoft Word®.

Learn the fundamentals of effective writing
Too many business writing seminars teach gimmicks. ClearWriter’s workshops are based on our decades of experience as writers and editors, working with demanding clients every day.

Workshop participants learn core writing skills to dramatically improve the impact, clarity, and quality of their writing—with emphasis on the skills most applicable to their work.

Good planning skills. Planning is essential for producing clearly written documents, especially for team writing projects—among the biggest writing challenges for any organization. You’ll learn to explicitly identify and convey your messages, to create a paragraph-by-paragraph plan for writing, and to expand that plan with points and supporting details.

Coherent paragraphs that clearly communicate one point. Paragraphs should communicate the points that support your messages. A succession of loose, unrelated sentences will fail to do that. You’ll learn to apply techniques and structures to command and sustain readers’ attention by crafting solid, coherent paragraphs.

Concise, interesting, and memorable sentences. Good writers use dozens of sentence structures beyond the five that most people use. You’ll learn to write with precision and eloquence by learning the patterns of good writing.

Essential words, uncluttered phrases. Many words and phrases, while grammatically and syntactically correct, convey little to readers and often detract. You’ll learn to apply hundreds of standard edits to make sentences clean and concise.

Writing strategies you won’t find anywhere else
ClearWriter writing workshops are one of a kind, based on our proprietary techniques published in five books by W.W. Norton® and in six copyrighted workbooks written by Communications Development founder Bruce Ross-Larson.