Description

Join “America's writing coach” Roy Peter Clark and the Poynter Institute's Kristen Hare for a lively conversation about three writing tools that editors can use for more powerful, clear work that thrives through coaching relationships.

Discussions include Clark’s memorable lessons and demonstrating how editors can harness their power to improve communications, messaging and even management.

Learning Objectives

• Use word placement to strengthen clarity and impact.
• Recognize how pacing influences readability and reader engagement.
• Apply coaching techniques that help writers improve their work rather than simply correcting or fixing it.
  
  

About the speakers

Roy Peter Clark has taught writing at Poynter to students of all ages since 1979. He has served the Institute as its first full-time faculty member, dean, vice president, and senior scholar. He contributes regularly to Poynter.org on topics such as writing, reporting, editing, coaching writers, reading, language and politics, American culture, ethics, and the standards and practices of journalism. He is the author or editor of more than 20 books including “Writing Tools,” “The Glamour of Grammar,” “Help! For Writers,” “How to Write Short,” and “The Art of X-ray Reading.”

Kristen Hare is the Poynter faculty’s director of craft and local news and the author of Local Edition, Poynter’s weekly newsletter for and about local journalists. Kristen created and leads Breaking Into Books, a narrative nonfiction workshop for journalists, and Mining for Memoir. Her work includes teaching and coaching at Poynter programs, including Women's Leadership Academy, Essential Skills for New Managers and Lead With Influence.