Building a Workplace Writing Center by Jessica Weber Metzenroth

Building a Workplace Writing Center by Jessica Weber Metzenroth

This practical resource provides guidance for writing professionals to sustainably tackle the organizational writing challenges of any professional environment. Rooted in applied experience, Building a Workplace Writing Center guides readers through the process of developing a writing center, from assessing the needs of an organization and pitching the idea of a writing center, to developing a service model and measuring progress. Chapters explore what a writing center can offer, such as one-on-one writing consultations, tailored group workshops, and standardized writing guidance and resources. Although establishing a writing center requires time and a shift in culture up front, it is a rewarding process that produces measurably improved writing, less frustration with the writing and revision processes, and more confident, independent writers. This guide is an invaluable resource for professionals across industries and academia considering how to establish an embedded, sustainable, and cost-effective workplace writing center. It will be of particular interest to business and human resource managers considering how best to improve writing skills within their organizations.

"In most organizations, poor writing is like bad weather — everyone complains about it, but nobody does anything to fix itNow there is a solution: build a writing center. Jessica Weber Metzenroth is the expert on how to do that, and this book is full of her wisdom. Read it and you'll learn how to fix the problem, instead of just whining about it."

- Josh Bernoff, bestselling author of Writing Without Bullshit and blogger at bernoff.com

Jessica Weber Metzenroth has helped establish workplace writing centers in both the US and Southeast Asia. She founded and directs the Writing Center at the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia. She holds a PhD in Technical Communication and Rhetoric and has had her work and writings featured by Harvard Business Review, WLN: A Journal of Writing Center Scholarship, and the edited collection How Stories Teach Us: Composition, Life Writing, and Blended Scholarship.

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ISBN 13	9781032071077
ISBN 10	1032071079
Title	Building a Workplace Writing Center
Author	Jessica Weber Metzenroth
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Taylor & Francis Ltd
Year published	2022-03-18
Number of pages	152
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