Course info

This certified training is designed to show the learners that everyone can write more plainly than they do today. It aims to explain why plainer text is better for the reader, and to motivate the learners to change to a plainer, simpler style of writing.  

The focus of the training is on the guidelines and the writer can use to produce more reader-friendly text than they did before. The trainer will not focus on content, layout or the journalistic principles of writing. It will focus on how you can change your writing style. 

Who is it for?  

The training is aimed at Interreg staff who are interested in changing their writing style. They want to write plainly and simply, to make their texts more reader-friendly than they are today.  

Plainer text is clearly helpful to the reader. But it is also a bonus for the writer – and why is this so?  

Because if you write plainly and clearly, your reader has a greater chance of understanding your text at first read. Understanding makes it easier for your reader to remember what you are telling them – and to take the action you want them to take once they have read your text.  

Overall learning objectives

By the end of the training, learners will have been provided with many guidelines and tips for making the change to a plainer writing style. They will have had the chance to practise using these guidelines and tips on their own and together with other learners. Their trainer will also give them feedback on the task that the individual learner delivers as part of their training. In other words, they will have resources at hand to begin writing in a more reader-friendly style than they did before the training.  

Agenda

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