I teach current and future leaders to write to embolden action.
I’ve taught writing to non-writers who become portfolio managers, public agency decisionmakers, and corporate leaders. in 2011, I started co-teaching a capstone class at Pratt Institute’s School of Architecture. I developed writing rubrics and thesis defenses, along with a syllabus, for that course over seven years. Later, I taught first-year students at NYU Stern School of Business and at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering. Since spring 2020, I’ve coached students across Yale University as news editor for the Yale Center for Business and the Environment. In summer 2023, I’m analyzing how that Center can encourage clear writing going forward.
“- Weekly deliverables
-Evolution from concept to outline to sources to enriched outline to drafts
-Ways to include visual description, conversational language, frame setup, and conflict
-Confidence that readers can thrive on uncertainty, and conviction to reach more focused questions.
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“Your faculty live on the same planet as you, so we know that 20 pages runs longer than most people read or write. It’s this seriousness and clarity, though, that strengthens policy proposals. We’ll workshop how topic sentences, characters and visual images, and conversational asides can sustain a voice through what can become a slog for readers and writers alike.”