Courses: Written rhetoric and better proposals and decision-making
Do you write a lot of internal texts? For example briefings, proposals, reports, or decision papers? Do they need to be sharper, clearer, and more precise—so the reader knows exactly what to do with what they have read?
If so, one of Rhetorica’s courses in written rhetoric and stronger proposals and decision papers is exactly what you need.
Tailored to your needs and content objectives, the course is built on research‑based tools and informed by our experience and insights from hundreds of previous courses.
The level can be adjusted to suit both those with limited experience in writing internal texts and those who have previously participated in similar courses.
Among our clients for our courses in written rhetoric and better decisions are:
- Many agencies and ministries
- Large and medium-sized Danish companies
- Universities, PhD schools and research organizations
- International organizations (where teaching is in English)
- Companies that want online training.
Optimal balance between theory and practise. I highly recommend the course.
Tine Nordentoft Thorsen,
Information and Communications Officer, Forestry Officers
We guarantee:
- That we deliver a course that provides research-based tools and exercises in them.
- That what you have learnt can be applied in your work from the day after the course.
- That even though it is research-based, the course offers surprisingly few dry textbooks and dusty compendia and quite a lot of laughs and good energy. Fun and interesting should go hand-in-hand with research-based and academically sound.
Among the topics covered in the courses are typically:
- To create relevant and interesting texts that are easy for the recipient to read and understand,
- To provide a cookbook recipe for building a good text, so that you can write a good text step by step,
- To impact the reader so that they remember, feel and do what is intended after the presentation,
- To build a good common thread and structure – possibly through the use of an internal template,
- To clarify the purpose of the text,
- Choosing a language level that suits the recipient,
- To achieve a linguistic style that matches the organization’s language policy,
- To give participants tools to give feedback on texts – and to ask for the right feedback on their own texts, so that they are not satisfied with ‘what do you think?’.
And we are happy to combine it with research-based tools and exercises in argumentation, decision making or other topics you want to incorporate.
Form and course
We tailor the format to suit your needs and reality – from a short inspirational presentation to an actual learning process. We recommend two days for a course in written rhetoric and better settings and decision-making presentations. Preferably as 1+1, where there are a couple of days between day 1 and day 2, so that participants have time to work at home with a text from their everyday life, which they can then get feedback on on the last day.
All courses end with both individual and joint evaluation as well as a post-learning exercise that increases participants’ ability to remember the new things they have learnt.
Overall, we work with the following format:
- A mix of theory, discussions and exercises – often based on the participants’ own cases, so that they solve tasks while they learn.
- Learning is important – and knowing a theory or model is not the same as mastering it. That’s why our tools are research-based and trained with participants so they have applied them in practice.
- We let the participants give each other feedback, because you learn a lot from reading other people’s texts and relating to them.
- We offer extra reading material before, during and after the course, if you wish. So that learning can be optimised and we can get the most out of the lessons
Preparation
We put a lot of effort into preparation, as it is our experience that the most important criterion for success is that all expectations regarding content, form and pace are aligned both before and during a course. Therefore, it is also important that we know the participants’ everyday lives and work tasks before the course, so that we ensure that we know the participants’ prerequisites and know how we can best give them the benefit of the course.
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