Transcript of Writing Tips for Presidential Assistants NAPAHE ANNUAL CONFERNCE March 2013.
Writing Tips for Presidential Assistants
NAPAHE ANNUAL CONFERNCEMarch 2013
Getting Tips as Presidential Assistants
NAPAHE ANNUAL CONFERNCEMarch 2013
Functional Resume?
• What do you spend the most time doing?
Read Read Read
Stay Informed
Cultivate Your Sources
Public Relations
Think of the Audience
Who’s Talking?
Who Writes What To Whom?
• Email• Minutes• Resolutions; Citations• Letter to Government Officials• Letter to Aggrieved Parent• Letter to Aggrieved Professor (Staff)• Tuition Letter
Who Writes What To Whom?
• Policies• Op Ed• White Paper/State of the Campus• Accreditation Report• Speech to Alumni• Speech to Community
Speechwriting? Chapter 7
Keep Files
• Quotes• Ideas• News articles• Prior works
Be original, but
DRAFT!
Reciprocal Editing
Or, You show me yours…
Grammar Counts
• Subject/object/verb agreement• Impact vs. affect/effect• Repeated words
Elements of Style, etc.
• Short sentences, usually• Important points early• Topic sentences• Transitions• Read aloud• Don’t use etc.
Profread Carefully
Good [writing] comes from experience and experience comes