Course curriculum

    1. What is Good Writing?

    2. Be the Windowpane

    3. Own Your Ideas

    4. Don't Sound Smart; Be Smart

    5. Waste No Time

    6. Everyone Needs an Editor; or, the Story of My Failure

    7. You Can Never Be a Worse Writer Than I Was

    8. Who are you?

    9. Appearance Matters

    10. Looking Your Best

    11. Dave Gives Pointers: Type is the Message

    1. Organize or Die

    2. Great Writers Are Great Revisers

    3. The Organizational Scaffold You Need for Everything

    4. Quentin, William, and Dave Brainstorm the Memo

    5. Have No Fear of English as a Second Language

    6. Bonus Video: The Basics of Greatness

    7. A Blank Page: Facing the Void

    8. Say it: The Body Paragraphs

    9. Building Out the Scaffold

    10. The Conclusion Concludes

    11. New York Times: "What Corporate America Can't Build: A Sentence"

    1. It's Go Time!

    2. The First Paragraph Roadmap

    3. Signposting with Topic Sentences

    4. William on Voicing Writing: How Does it Sound?

    5. Writing a Paragraph

    6. Revising a Paragraph

    7. The Conclusion Concludes (Reprise)

    8. Does Good Grammar Matter?

    9. Grammar Blast: I vs. Me

    10. Grammar Blast: Mangled Modifiers

    11. Grammar Blast: Serial or Oxford Comma

    12. Grammar Blast: Pronoun Problems

    13. Grammar Blast: Apostrophe Abuse

    14. Grammar Blast: Your, You're, Their, They're, There

    15. Grammar Blast: That vs. Which

    1. Writing IS Revision

    2. Check Your Scaffold

    3. Keep It Simple

    4. Brevity is the Soul of Wit

    5. Dave on How Logo Design Reflects Brevity and Clarity

    6. Always be Specific; Avoid Generalities and Jargon

    7. The Power of Active Voice

    8. Limit Crutch Verbs

    9. Cut Prepositional Phrases

    10. Don't Repeat Words

    11. Always Proofread

    12. A Word on Email

    13. Long Documents, in Brief

    14. In Conclusion

    15. Time to Design: Dave Takes the Memo

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  • 3 hours of video content

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