Sound pedagogy requires that any learning effort be supported in a variety of ways—from one-on-one counseling to senior reviews of first drafts. At BackDRAFT, we design training programs to ensure fast learning and thorough retention. The following tools are offered as effective and affordable complements to our writing-training packages.

Writing Diagnostics

Diagnostics are individual reviews of a student’s writing samples by senior editors of The BackDRAFT Corporation. Conducted a week or two before any curriculum begins, each diagnostic analysis results in a confidential 6-10 page report detailing writing strengths and areas for development of each writer. Most importantly, the analysis accelerates the process of identifying each writer’s individual fumble cluster, which in turn results in faster improvement of overall writing skills.

Word of the Day

In this automated vocabulary-building program, members of your organization receive a daily email containing unique and powerful words that can be easily moved from their passive to their active vocabularies. This email program features 260 words in total over the course of one year, words that can be used to great effect in writing to achieve clarity and brevity, no matter the genre. Branded for your own organization, the Word of the Day helps extend each writer’s professional and personal vocabulary with commonly known (but uncommonly used) words that carry special meaning with uncommon impact. >> Sign Up for this Service Now

Mentor On-call

In order to ensure immediate feedback during the training process, each student in your organization can receive individualized editorial support from a senior writer and editor of The BackDRAFT Corporation. (Note: Within the company’s ISO 9000 quality-management system, a senior writer has proved expertise across all genres and styles of writing, and is adept at reviewing and improving the work of staff writers.) The Mentor On-call program motivates rapid improvement as senior writers reinforce key principles while ensuring that students are able to meet the new writing standard—even under the tight deadlines commonly experienced.

Style Guides

Fueled by the Internet, the development of a new World English standard has left many international organizations struggling to address issues of grammar, punctuation and even capitalization with unambiguous clarity. Unique Style Guides developed for large organizations are the solution. Built to fit, BackDRAFT Style Guides allow your enterprise to resolve questions of tone and voice, consistent naming, grammar, capitalization and abbreviations while promoting best practices in corporate writing to everyone on staff.

Writing Services

Within our clients’ own organizations, the pressure is often high and the deadlines tight. In these cases, our writers and editors are standing by to support our clients with expert writing in every genre—from annual reports and websites to speeches and video scripts. View a wide range of samples at Stiff Sentences Inc.

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