A ‘write-off’ in Mildura
Bendigo’s Helen Cronin is pictured at her Mildura writing workshop with Desley-Reid-Orr and Ros Hocking.
Editors please note: This is published verbatim with reasons contained therein.
Bendigo’s Helen Cronin travelled to Mildura on 25th November to conduct her ‘Writing killer content’ workshop for the SRH Mildura staff.
The nine members of staff who attended were often lost for words while focusing on Helen’s killer strategies, tips and tricks, but came away with a renewed enthusiasm for the written word.
In a day of team bonding, communication and information sharing, staff learned valuable new skills such as devising catchy headlines, the summative ‘who, what, why, when, where and how’ messages, targeting an audience and using the correct register – and that was just before lunch!
In a hands-on teaching manoeuvre, Helen illustrated the term ‘register’ by drawing on a range of writing styles from Grahame’s Wind in the Willows to a 19th century legal document. Those attending were asked to give their impression of whether the various documents were written in informal, standard or formal register (language) which in itself incited some hilarious exchanges and colourful language.
It is the writer’s intent to couch this report in an informal tone, however readers will have to judge the success or otherwise of that endeavour for themselves; it is in fact the result of a joint exercise by those who attended and we now warn you to watch out for the latest in ‘killer-content’ in a SRH Mildura publication coming soon.