{"id":3703,"date":"2014-12-03T15:05:40","date_gmt":"2014-12-03T04:05:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test-blogs-monash-edu.pantheonsite.io\/rural-health\/?p=3703"},"modified":"2014-12-08T09:46:04","modified_gmt":"2014-12-07T22:46:04","slug":"a-%e2%80%98write-off%e2%80%99-in-mildura","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/rural-health\/2014\/12\/03\/a-%e2%80%98write-off%e2%80%99-in-mildura\/","title":{"rendered":"A \u2018write-off\u2019 in Mildura"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3765\" style=\"width: 440px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3765\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3765\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/rural-health\/files\/2014\/12\/Writing-workshop.jpg\" alt=\"Writing-workshop\" width=\"430\" height=\"279\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3765\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bendigo\u2019s Helen Cronin is pictured at her Mildura writing workshop with Desley-Reid-Orr and Ros Hocking.<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n<p><strong><em>Editors please note: This is published verbatim with reasons contained therein.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em> <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Bendigo\u2019s Helen Cronin travelled to Mildura on 25<sup>th<\/sup> November to conduct her \u2018Writing killer content\u2019 workshop for the SRH Mildura staff.<\/p>\n<p>The nine members of staff who attended were often lost for words while focusing on Helen\u2019s killer strategies, tips and tricks, but came away with a renewed enthusiasm for the written word.<\/p>\n<p>In a day of team bonding, communication and information sharing, staff learned valuable new skills such as devising catchy headlines, the summative \u2018who, what, why, when, where and how\u2019 messages, targeting an audience and using the correct register \u2013 and that was just before lunch!<\/p>\n<p>In a hands-on teaching manoeuvre, Helen illustrated the term \u2018register\u2019 by drawing on a range of writing styles from Grahame\u2019s <em>Wind in the Willows<\/em> to a 19<sup>th<\/sup> 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.<\/p>\n<p>It is the writer\u2019s 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 \u2018killer-content\u2019 in a SRH Mildura publication coming soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Editors please note: This is published verbatim with reasons contained therein. Bendigo\u2019s Helen Cronin travelled to Mildura on 25th November to conduct her \u2018Writing killer content\u2019 workshop for the SRH Mildura staff. The nine members of staff who attended were often lost for words while focusing on Helen\u2019s killer strategies, tips and tricks, but came [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/rural-health\/2014\/12\/03\/a-%e2%80%98write-off%e2%80%99-in-mildura\/\"> Read More...<\/a>","protected":false},"author":797,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3334],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/rural-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3703"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/rural-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/rural-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/rural-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/797"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/rural-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3703"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/rural-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3760,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/rural-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3703\/revisions\/3760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/rural-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/rural-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/rural-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}