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The P2P energy trading and LEM project will not only demonstrate and validate the technology for the democratization of energy for sustainable living and…
Help us write a Powerledger style guide. Things have moved on a little since this 1996 Economist style guide was published, but it remains an authoritative document. What would you keep or change from this?
What is the relationship between story, change and communication? These are three fundamental things you need to have an intuitive understanding of if you’re going to become a proficient copywriter.
What’s the change? Write on the scratchpad
Let’s look at something that’s as technical as it comes. Graphene. Without spending more than seven minutes on reading this nor being a quantum physicist, can you determine whether you would consider this well written? If so what make you think that?
Prints on the Gun exercise. Group investigation into the motor of writing. We take a piece of writing from a typical detective situation and ask how persuasion is operating in terms of beats. These are fundamental story units that are found everywhere. Google Prints on Gun exercise Other Speech materials
The once upon a time exercise to see what happens in the kingdom. This exercise is about feeling our way to the critical ingredients of a super simple story.
Remember your school food? Unless you lived in Sweden where people report their school food as being excellent, you’ll remember it with some mixed feelings. This exercise is simple. Write to your dinner lady and get her to change what’s on the menu. Remember, she’s not minded to change anything, but something inspiring and not too manipulative might work. Write here
The hotel letter you wrote. What does it tell us about what works when we’re the other side of our own writing? What works, and what doesn’t?It may be the first time you’ve read your work as a competitor to others on exactly the same brief. Work submitted
Reading out pure drivel is interesting. We read this text out aloud while standing up. We sit down when we’ve had enough then we ask the question: when and why do we give up reading? This exercise shows how a logic or flow glitch sheds readers like a leaky pipe. You can use this tool to fix any script.
Winston Churchill’s finest hour speech is a masterclass in structure. Probably the most famous speech in the English language it shows the power of going taking an idea to its logical conclusion.
Two presidents, two inaugural speeches, in the early mid section where the pain problem or situation gets developed. Can you guess who did which on? Spoiler alert: don’t watch the Video or transcript if you’ve not done the problem. What does this tell us about quality as opposed to what we think is quality?
Stephen Hawking’s book sold more copies than the bible, 9 million copies in forty languages. And yet the subject matter is to say the least, quite complex. His gift is that he’s trying to help you understand, not to bamboozle you. His opening story demonstrates how the entire theme of the book can be summarised and illustrated in a single child like story.
According to Larry McEnerney, University of Chicago Writing Program, every successful piece of academic writing has the same structure. It goes like this: “You and many others think X. But I’m here to tell you that you and they, are wrong.” By the end of the paper you have been sold Y. And being corrected represents the value exchange for the effort you’ve put into reading it.
A value exchange is about attention for ideas that have value. Why would you read through a document about packet switching? Because Sir Tim Berner’s Lee’s writing could tell you things that changed what you did the next morning.