Gender Neutral Writing & Drafting - Live at Your Desk

Introduction

This virtual classroom seminar will provide you with the opportunity to critique your writing styles, so that you can edit out gender specific language and adopt a modern gender neutral approach.

What You Will Learn

This live and interactive session will cover the following:

• Starter exercise - eliminating gender specific pronouns in a sentence
• Techniques for avoiding gender specific pronouns - repeating, changing and rephrasing
• Using impersonal constructions such as ‘the/that’ instead of ‘he/she’
• Cases where you can omit pronouns entirely
• Use of the passive voice (with extreme caution)
• Use of defined gender neutral terms
• Wrap-up - miscellaneous drafting exercises and questions

Recording of live sessions: Soon after the Learn Live session has taken place you will be able to go back and access the recording - should you wish to revisit the material discussed.