Spoke with Writing and Communications Trainer Shelly Davies about how to improve your writing and training as well as other topics such as Maori, Profanity, Racism and more

WEBSITE www.shellydavies.co.nz

TIMESTAMPS

01:27 - How Shelly Got Into Writing 02:47 - Hapu Trust Board/Document of RMA 03:39 - Written Document That Was Easy To Read 04:50 - Being Handed A Business 05:54 - Plain Language 06:44 - Why We Write Different To How We Speak 07:59 - Untraining People To Write Differently From Spoken Word/Examples 10:04 - Finding The Balance To Write Professionally But Simple 10:33 - Shelly’s Website/Errors 12:38 - Active & Passive Sentence Structure 14:48 - Shelly’s Marketing/Brand 17:08 - Plain Language Not Taught In Universities 19:13 - Grammar Nazi’s/Modern English 21:41 - Differences Between Te Reo Maori & English 24:53 - ...