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Writing resources
Support services
Content summaries
Style sheets
Links
Tip of the week
Customized services
Support services
Learner support is available over email to answer questions
about the courses. If you can't find an answer among our
frequently asked questions or in ClearTips,
you can submit a short
form and a representative will be in touch shortly.
Technical support is also available—you can submit
the technical assistance form
or contact us over email at support@clearwriter.com.
Content
summaries
Content Summaries (available in PDF) provide a simple, easy-to-use
quick reference for the major concepts presented in each
section of the four courses. You'll need Adobe's
Acrobat Reader.
Edit
yourself
Stunning
sentences
Powerful
paragraphs
Riveting
reports
Style sheets
To be consistent in spelling, punctuation, hyphenation,
capitalization, and other matters of style, keep a style
sheet. Indispensable for writing by one person, and imperative
for writing by more than one, it is a simple tool that can
save time and avoid confusion. View a sample
style sheet for spelling, or create your own.
You can also view a sample
style sheet for abbreviations, acronyms, and typography,
or create your own.
Each time you write or see a word that has
more than one acceptable style, write it in the appropriate
box: for example, write decisionmaking in the ABCD
box, traveling in the QRST box. Then when you run
into these words elsewhere, you can check the style against
the style sheet (rather than search for how you spelled
them the first time). For long pieces it often helps to
keep a style sheet for each of the main areas of inconsistency:
one for spelling (especially that of names and terms), one
for hyphens, one for capitals, one for numbers, and one
for initials and acryonyms.
Links
ClearWriter links take
you to essential online writing resources. These include
a dictionary, thesaurus, encyclopedia, and sites with proofreading
marks, grammar guides, and useful writing tips and tricks.
Tip of the week
The Tip of the week provides techniques
proven to increase the speed, ease, and quality of writing.
Customized services
We can customize ClearWriter for your organization. For
example, we can tailor ClearPlans
to the department level to ease the drafting of reports
and memos. We can infuse ClearStyles
with style choices that match your organization's preferences.
We can even customize training modules to address your organization's
most common writing tasks. And ClearWriter training is available
in onsite workshops that can be tailored to your organization.
Contact us for
more information.
Communications Development offers full-service print production-editing,
design, layout, and project management. We also build and
maintain Web sites. See our Web site for more information:
http://www.cdinet.com.
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