Take your Deliverables to the next level.
Register for the Effective Writing Program for ACEC firms.
Improve your technical writing – We are offering ACEC’s Effective Writing program, with quality content in a format focused on writing skills for engineers, surveyors, architects, planners and other design professionals. A small investment of time for a measurable ROI!
Effective Writing Program
A Virtual ACEC Leadership Education Development Course
2 Session Course: February 18 and 20, 2025
2:00 - 4:00 PM each day on Zoom
Fee: $250 ACEC member; $500 non-members
Payment is not due at the time of registration. You will be invoiced later.
Deadline to Register is Friday, January 31.
Limited to 20 people: Registration is on a first-come, first-served basis with an initial limit of 1 spot per firm until 20 attendees are reached. There will be a waitlist for a second program so firms are strongly encouraged to send multiple registrants.
Course Format: Virtual, interactive with case studies
Course Content:
- Refresher of the writing process and grammar, including common mistakes and taboo/caution words for our industry
- Focus on key deliverables: Reports, emails, executive summaries, letters, meeting notes, field notes, and more
- Incorporating QAQC techniques to develop quality products and avoid legal mishaps
- Simplifying words and phrases
- Active and passive voice
Instructor: Carol A. Lurie, AICP, LEED AP, ENV SP Project Director with over 40 years of preparing multidisciplinary environmental reports for large, complex highway, aviation, rail and transit, infrastructure, and institutional projects.
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