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WRITING
"If it sounds like writing, rewrite it." Elmore Leonard
As an expert in your discipline, you have no problem communicating with other experts. You may sometimes find it difficult to communicate your ideas clearly to people outside your discipline and express those ideas in different genres like blog posts, success stories and corporate comms materials. I'm very good at translating technical content into plain English without misrepresenting your ideas or making them sound simplistic.
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I have published my work in peer-reviewed journals and self-published three nonfiction books and scores of blog posts and articles on LinkedIn.
My promise to you when you hire me to write...
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I will listen.
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I will ask questions.
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I will read your work.
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I will understand what you do.
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I will understand what you want to say.
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I will help you craft a message that speaks to your audience in language they understand.
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I will share with you the knowledge, experience and insights I have gained from 30 years of working with hundreds of professionals on five continents.
Browse samples of my work to get a feel for the range of topics I have covered to date and the various styles I can adopt.
Essays
LinkedIn posts
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I do not think I have ever worked in a team that is so responsive (we worked probably every weekend since August?!) and committed to producing a high-quality proposal while we had to cope with constantly changing goalposts, complicated guidelines, and a quite complex process.
Super well done and thank you very much!
Stefan Uhlenbrook, Director, Water, Land and Ecosystems Program, International Water Management Institute
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Your tips on message writing are really interesting. I will certainly reflect deeper on it next time messages are to be written.
Many thanks for sharing your insights.
Per Rudebjer, Office of Innovation, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
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Dear Claudia and Terry,
Yes, we did it! I would like to thank you for your absolutely amazing hard work over the past weeks. I do not think I have ever worked with a team that is so responsive (we worked probably every weekend since August?!) and committed to producing a high-quality proposal while we had to cope with constantly changing goalposts, complicated guidelines, and a quite complex process.
Super well done and thank you very much!
Stefan Uhlenbrook, Program Director, CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems
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Terry, Thank you for your work on this assignment. I have just finished reviewing the comments matrix. I had no idea we had so many comments!
The guide looks very good and again I thank you for your work on this. The legal team in particular was impressed with this style and noted that this will make moving to the next step much easier.