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Professional Writing, Part 3: Three Steps to Self-Editing

Learn this easy, three-step strategy for editing your own work.

Created byKaren Dunn Skinner
IntermediateUpdated Oct 30, 2019

What You'll Learn

  • check_circleUnderstand the impact of typos and errors on credibility.
  • check_circleLearn a simple, three-step editing strategy.
  • check_circleSpot and fix common grammar and spelling mistakes.
  • check_circleImprove the quality of emails, reports, and documents.
  • check_circleBuild habits for faster, more accurate proofreading.
  • check_circleStrengthen professional trust through error-free writing.

About This Course

Typos and grammatical errors can make you look sloppy and unprofessional. They cause people to question your competence and can waste valuable time correcting mistakes — yours or someone else’s. In today’s fast-paced world, even a small error can give clients and colleagues a reason to doubt or ignore you.

This course teaches a simple, three-step strategy for editing your own work quickly and effectively. With these techniques, you’ll consistently send out error-free communications and strengthen your professional credibility — every time you hit "send."

Course Content

1 activity • 1 videos • duration: 43m

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Section 11 videos • 43 min
  • videocamCPDFormula - Professional Writing Part 3 - Three Steps to Self-Editing
    Duration 43:06

Your Instructor

Karen Dunn Skinner

Senior Lawyer, Editor, and Lean Practice Management Advisor, Gimbal Canada Inc.

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Karen is a lawyer and Lean Six Sigma Black Belt with over 20 years of international experience in corporate-commercial, regulatory, and education law. She is a co-founder of and principal at Gimbal Lean Practice Management Advisors, specialists in Lean and continuous improvement in legal and business processes in professional service firms and public sector institutions. Karen offers clients a powerful combination of legal experience and process improvement skills. Since founding Gimbal, she has taught Lean thinking and process improvement to thousands of lawyers and other professionals across North America and, in February 2020, she’ll be teaching a course on legal innovation and technology at McGill’s Faculty of Law. She speaks and writes regularly on the application of Lean in the legal profession, and facilitates projects that improve the practice and the business of professional service firms. Karen worked for years as a professional editor. She teaches powerful writing and editing techniques to business professionals who want to communicate clearly and concisely with their clients and colleagues. Education: B.Sc. (Honours) from Queen's University at Kingston, Ontario. Bachelor of Common Law (LL.B.) and Bachelor of Civil Law (B.C.L.) from McGill University’s Faculty of Law. Certified Lean Six Sigma Black Belt and Lean Six Sigma Sensei from Villanova University. Karen was a member of the Quebec Bar for over 20 years.

Credit Information

Is this course eligible for my CPD requirements as a Canadian CPA?

Provincial regulators of CPAs in Canada do not require that independent providers of CPD be approved to offer courses. Instead, individual CPAs are responsible for assessing whether a CPD activity meets their requirements, and may take activities from any source provided those requirements are met.

Every course offered on LearnFormula is delivered by a qualified subject matter expert or learning organization, and advances learning objectives that are relevant to the responsibilities or professional competencies of Canadian CPAs. All activities on LearnFormula are quantifiable in terms of hours, and are also verifiable, in that users receive documented evidence of their attendance via a certificate of completion after finishing a course (and this certificate is stored by LearnFormula indefinitely). Nearly 100,000 Canadian CPAs successfully satisfy their CPD requirements via LearnFormula on an annual basis.

What Students Are Saying

4.5 out of 5
Student's Choice
62 reviews
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    Nick D.
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    Wonderful course. Thank you, Karen, for providing resources to utilize, in assisting me in my writing skills.

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    Gwendolyn S.
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    The speaker is clear & concise with great tips to improve writing.

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    William S.
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    Author could cut some of the complex sentences or examples, as long as the point is clear.

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    MONIKA H.
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    Clear and concise. Great examples.

Frequently Asked Questions

We are a registered provider with 300+ associations and regulatory bodies worldwide. We operate across 27 global markets including Canada, the US, Australia, and the UK. Every course page clearly displays its specific accreditations. Upon completion, you receive a professional certificate that can be validated online. Our certificates include all necessary accreditation details, credit hours, and completion dates, and are formatted specifically to meet the submission requirements of most global regulatory bodies.

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