Effective Writing
A Virtual ACEC/MA Leadership Education Development Course
2 Session Course: November 19 and 20, 2024
3:30 - 5:30 PM each day on Zoom
*Fee: $250 ACEC/MA member; $500 non-members
With Instructor: Carol A. Lurie, AICP, LEED AP, ENV SP, VHB
Limited to 25 people. Registration is on a first-come, first-serve basis initial limit of 2 per a firm until 20 attendees are reached. There will be a waitlist.
Improve your technical writing at ACEC/MA’s Effective Writing program, with quality content in a format focused on skills especially needed by engineering and land surveying firms.
Effective Writing is tailored to the needs of employees at engineering, land surveying, and related design professional service firms. It is worth the small investment in time for you to take this course.
Course Format:
- Goals: Clarity, Brevity, Think of the reader
- Simplifying words and phrases
- Active and passive voice
- Words to be avoided
- Writing for clarity
- Common mistakes of grammar and punctuation
- Taboo and caution words for our industry
- Report and letter organization
- E-mails, proposals
- Reviewing and editing draft reports
- Field Reports
- Specifications
*If your firm is an ACEC/MA member, you are an ACEC/MA member. For help, contact
ACEC/MA or call 617/227-5551.
**If you would like to go on a waitlist for the spring Effective Writing Course please contact
ACEC/MA or call 617/227-5551.