Writing for Change is a training workshop, an ideology, devoted to capacity development on writing that brings about positive change, from the personal to the planetary. This section describes about change in social development issues…

INTRODUCTION
Principles of effective writing
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CREATING A MESSAGE
Defining your purpose
Analysing your readership
Writing a message sentence
Checking your message
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ORGANISING YOUR IDEAS
Creating a structure
Collecting evidence
Writing an outline
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WRITING A FIRST DRAFT
Functions of prose
Explanation techniques
Summary and introduction
Navigation aids
Resource materials
Using graphics
Elements of layout
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EFFECTIVE EDITING
General principles
Constructing effective paragraphs
Improving your sentences
Choosing your words
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INTRODUCTION
A different form of writing
What we will cover ____________________

DEVELOPING THE CONCEPT
Why publish
What to publish
Your main message
Your readership
Where to publish ____________________

PREPARING AN OUTLINE
Types of papers
Main message
Principal objective and hypothesis
Materials and methods
Principal findings
Conclusions
Introduction ____________________

WRITING THE FIRST DRAFT
Deepening the outline
Introduction
Materials and methods
Results
Discussion
Writing a first draft
Writing style
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TOPPING AND TAILING
Title
Ethics of authorship
Abstract
Acknowledgements
References
Appendices
Editing your manuscript ____________________

PUBLISHING
Submitting the manuscript
Responding to editors
Correcting proofs
Marketing the publication
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