At the end of the year, it’s always nice to look back and reflect on what’s happened.
Here’s a round-up of my top tips from 2020:
- Finding the right words
Some of our first tips were about choosing words carefully to make your writing easy for your readers to follow:
Repetition, repetition, repetition
Workshop: Repetition, repetition, repetition
- A direct line
We shared ways to address the reader directly and take a more authoritative approach:
- Point by point
We celebrated the merits of bullet points and discovered the most effective ways to use them:
Why you should be using bullet points
Workshop: Why you should be using bullet points
Workshop: How to use bullet points
- Nice and concise
We practised using a range of tools to make our writing short and efficient:
- Active voice vs passive voice
We took a trip into the world of grammar and learned that the active voice is usually (but not always) the most effective choice:
Workshop: Using the active voice
Workshop: Using the passive voice
Ready for more?
Come back next Thursday for the first post of 2021. It’s my all-time, number one favourite top tip. You won’t want to miss it…
Happy New Year!
What has been your highlight of 2020? Let me know in the comments below.
Sarah de Mars 