Writing


Powerful Writing
Powerful writing critically depends on your ability to match the content and style of the message with the intended audience and the occasion. Choosing an appropriate format for your writing therefore requires that you have a good understanding of what you (can) aim at in relation to the particular strengths and weaknesses of the format.

Powerful writing requires that you be prepared to go through the reflective cycle of powerful writing, and that you always take into account the following four phases:

1 Inventory: brainstorming about the right form of your texts
2 Structure: deciding which parts of your writing are well enough for your report
3 Formulating the right sentences and make your argumentation complete
4 Editing of all parts of your written material

Click here for a further elaboration on the reflective cycle of powerful writing and these four basic phases.

Check the downloads below to help you further improve your powerful writing skills:
Summaries and book reviews (as input for your literature study, for example)
Essays (how to write a good and influential essay)
Letters, emails, and faxes (how to communicate efficiently what you want)
Letter of application/CV (in order to get a job)
Thesis proposals (how to write a proposal that is not only informative for your supervisor, but also helps you in focusing on the main line of your thesis during the writing process)
Internet (what kind of ‘netiquette’ should you adopt to communicate effectively)
Press releases (how to efficiently get the gist of a message across on one page)
Policy Memo (how to effectively support or trigger a decision-making process)
American or British English (how to cope with the differences between American and British English)


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