How to Improve Professional Writing Skills: The Nine Most important Grammar and Editing Tips
 
Of all the hundreds of things to do to improve writing, which are the most important for a person with English as a second language?  The workshop will tell the answer.  Dr. Antonia Johnson will describe the six naked grammar rules.  Violate any one of these rules, and the mistake leaps out at the reader or listener just as if you were to walk out of your home naked.  Dr. Johnson will identify the best editing tips for ESL and all writers.  Lastly, she will reveal the simple secrets for optimal proofreading: what you should look for and how to find mistakes.  This view of critical grammar rules and editing tips comes from expert opinion; Dr. Johnson’s experience and interviews with 500 technical or scientific ESL individuals from 57 countries and 58 first languages (and their bosses and colleagues); and recent interviews with NCAR/UCAR scientists.