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The VanWrite System

VanWrite helps everyone in your organization produce clearer, shorter communications in plain English. VanWrite provides an enterprise-wide communications standard that eliminates aimless rewrites, strengthens communication, and improves productivity. With VanWrite, your organization discovers how to:

• Develop clear, consistent, and measurable communication skills
• Strengthen weak writing
• Empower writers and reviewers
• Save staff and management time

The three-part VanWrite Method combines High Impact Thinking with Sentence Aerobics and Sentence Aerobics Editing Software to measurably improve office writing.

• Part 1: High Impact Thinking

  High Impact Thinking gets in front of the writing to save time. Staff receive the tools they need to:

  • Quickly capture ideas and information
  • Organize and prioritize what they capture
  • Clearly communicate their thinking
  • Obtain consensus and/or approval

  Managers embrace High Impact Thinking because it is quick, effective, and often eliminates the need to write documents at all! Staff rejoice because they receive clearer assignments and use High Impact Thinking to obtain approval for their content before writing the first sentence.

• Part 2: Sentence Aerobics^®

  Sentence Aerobics shows staff the power of writing with Reader Comfort in mind. They discover the three VanWrite principles for clear communication that engage the reader. Because Sentence Aerobics is an editing method, managers and staff use it to:

  • Objectively discuss writing strengths and weaknesses
  • Reliably target and strengthen weak writing
  • Measure improvement

  Managers often ask if Sentence Aerobics is also effective for technical, scientific, or medical writing. VanWrite always responds YES; clear writing is a universal process that applies equally to government, military, technical, scientific, medical, legal, and all other fields.

• Part 3: Editing Software

  Because the VanWrite^® editing method is an objective editing method, we were able to create software that implements the editing principles presented during Sentence Aerobics training. After class, students use Sentence Aerobics Editing Software as their personal editing coach every time they write. VanWrite training is far more effective than other writing programs because VanWrite delivers a proven method supported by post-class reinforcement every time staff write.

VanWrite training is available as an onsite, or elearning program. Click here to contact us about these programs.

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