S1 / Ranly review: Grammar, style and punctuation
Date: Sunday, 26 June
Time: 1 – 4 pm
Track: Skills Development
Here’s your chance to brush up on the basics of the craft of writing, to get those questions answered that you were too busy to look up or too embarrassed to ask. This interactive, hands-on session will remind you of things you have forgotten and make you feel more professional in what you do. What’s more, Ranly will make it fun!
This session will help you master:
- Consistent rules for the comma
- Correct and non-sexist use of pronouns
- Best use of the verb: tense, voice and mood
Presenter / Don Ranly, Ph.D. / Missouri, USA, is professor of journalism at the University of Missouri School of Journalism. An author of articles and books on writing and editing, he has conducted more than 950 seminars for individual newspapers and magazines, corporations, associations and organizations. This is his 21st IABC international conference. He has led seminars for 34 IABC chapters, and in 2002 he was named an IABC Fellow.