Objectives

• Use terminology—including abbreviations and acronyms—consistently.
• Recognize and disambiguate pesky pronouns.

Active and Passive

• Distinguish active voice from passive voice.
• Convert passive voice sentences to active voice.
• Identify three ways in which active voice is superior to passive voice.

Clarity in sentences

• Develop at least three strategies to make sentences clearer and more engaging.
• Develop at least four strategies to shorten sentences.

Lists

• Understand the difference between bulleted lists and numbered lists.
• Create helpful lists.

Paragraphs

• Create effective lead sentences for paragraphs.
• Focus each paragraph on a single topic.
• State key points at the start of each document.

Audience

• Identify your target audience.
• Determine what your target audience already knows and what your target audience needs to learn.
• Understand the curse of knowledge.
• Identify and revise idioms.
• State your document's scope (goals) and audience.

Breaking into sections

• Break long topics into appropriate sections.
• Use commas, parentheses, colons, em-dashes, and semicolons properly.

Markdown

• Develop beginner competency in Markdown.