Trainer's tip: Mind your grammar

This proof reading exercise from Rus Slater aims to teach delegates – in this case managers – some lessons in spelling and grammar.

Get a relevant piece of written work, for example a report, tender response or sales document, and amend it to have a series of "deliberate mistakes", some purely spelling and grammar of a "quality" nature, and some that are errors of a spelling and grammatical nature that render the work ambiguous or inaccurate.
Send this out as a piece of "pre-course reading" asking delegates to highlight the offending sections.
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