| Description | Correspondence and extracts from minutes and reports including writing workshop proposal by Elizabeth Mapstone, Managing Editor of The Psychologist; feedback from initial course held at City University 14 December 1992; programme, budget and feedback from course 16 December 1993. Programme, application form, budget and correspondence for workshop held 7 October 1994 (includes subsystem editors). Correspondence concerning funding and role of the Information Committee in the Writing Workshops. Correspondence, forms and course material concerning workshops arranged for 1996 and 1997 which were cancelled due to lack of applications. |
| AdminHistory | The first iteration of this course December 1992 was run by tutors at City University, after that the Course was run by Elizabeth Mapstone and Marion Tysoe. The aim of the course was to help participants acquire good writing skills and to alert them of the principles of clear communication. to show participants how to transform standard academic prose into an accessible style who will hold the interest of psychologists not necessarily familiar with the topic area and help editors to recognise failings in contributors writing and to be able to offer suggestions for improvement; to help them brief contributors, edit and sub-edit. |
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