SCPR regularly run their popular plain English training courses at Monkhouse Granary near Shrewsbury.

Course Dates:

• Wednesday 29th September, 10.00am – 4.00pm

The cost is £150 plus VAT for the day. If two or more people attend from the same organisation, the price is £125 per person plus VAT.

The one-day course covers the following points during the morning session:

• the reasons for plain English
• understanding the different target groups (disabled people, black and minority ethnic people, young and older people)
• basic problems – long words, long sentences, confused meaning
• basic grammar

The afternoon session brings all these into play with an exercise designed to build up editing skills. This is a popular part of the course and helps demonstrate how long words, long and passive sentences and surplus information can have an impact on the readability of a passage.

The second part of the afternoon session answers some common questions: how to use a colon, when to use capital letters, use of the apostrophe and so on.

For further details, please go to www.scpr.co.uk or contact Shirley on:

Fax-phone: 01691 622226
Email: shirley@scpr.co.uk

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