Presentation/Proposal Title
Writing Center Collaboration with Nonprofit Organizations
Type of Presentation/Proposal
Individual Presentation or Paper
Start Date
5-4-2019 11:00 AM
End Date
5-4-2019 12:00 PM
Keywords
Nonprofit Organizations
Description
Our writing center has collaborated with outside nonprofit organizations to help improve the quality of their writing. This presentation will detail the work that we have recently done with Voices for Independence, an organization dedicated to helping people with disabilities to secure needed services, adequate housing, and employment. We have especially focused on helping this organization to create of organizational templates for record keeping, and effective documents and web pages designed for providers and multiple outside audiences that tend to skim through documents rather than reading them carefully.
Often nonprofit organizations such as Voices of Independence of Erie come to us asking for a grammar brush-up, thinking that improved grammar skills will produce better writing. As we work with these organizations, we focus their attention from the knowledge of grammar terminology to discovering more effective ways for communicating their messages, audience analysis (some of whom may be indifferent or unsympathetic and for generating clear documents that include incorporate the effective use of color and print fonts and bulleted lists to catch the attention of those who tend to skim through documents. We have also shown them techniques for developing organizational templates and story boarding for developing on-line web pages for staff and clients to find needed services, housing, and employment
Writing Center Collaboration with Nonprofit Organizations
Deeds Boardroom
Our writing center has collaborated with outside nonprofit organizations to help improve the quality of their writing. This presentation will detail the work that we have recently done with Voices for Independence, an organization dedicated to helping people with disabilities to secure needed services, adequate housing, and employment. We have especially focused on helping this organization to create of organizational templates for record keeping, and effective documents and web pages designed for providers and multiple outside audiences that tend to skim through documents rather than reading them carefully.
Often nonprofit organizations such as Voices of Independence of Erie come to us asking for a grammar brush-up, thinking that improved grammar skills will produce better writing. As we work with these organizations, we focus their attention from the knowledge of grammar terminology to discovering more effective ways for communicating their messages, audience analysis (some of whom may be indifferent or unsympathetic and for generating clear documents that include incorporate the effective use of color and print fonts and bulleted lists to catch the attention of those who tend to skim through documents. We have also shown them techniques for developing organizational templates and story boarding for developing on-line web pages for staff and clients to find needed services, housing, and employment
