Writing is not just a tool you use in school. It is a craft you learn there, and use the rest of your life. It’s not just your teachers who value good writing; your future employers will appreciate it even more. Most importantly, you yourself will not regret the effort you make to become a confident writer. Knowing that you can express yourself in writing about your expertise, whether that be management or marketing or finance or organization, is an invaluable foundation for success.

This lecture will introduce you to a simple approach to improving your writing skills, one paragraph at a time. It will also introduce you to the resources that are available here at CBS to help you when you encounter difficulties in your writing process. Finally, it serves as an introductory lecture to our online Scholarly Writing Workshop, which is open 32 weeks out of the year to help you train.

The lecture takes about an hour, and there will be plenty of time at the end for questions.

It will held on Tuesday, February 7 and again on Wednesday, February 8. (You’re welcome to attend both, but it’s the same lecture.)