Delivery: Face-to-face | Duration: 1 Day


This is a unique and highly popular one-day course that teaches writing skills specific to the Tasmanian public sector. with an emphasis on ensuring your writing is active and concise, this course also provides a refresher/training in grammar and punctuation along the way.

Learning outcomes

This course will teach you how to:

  • Know the difference between good and bad writing
  • Write more vigorously
  • Avoid pomposity
  • Write to your audience
  • Write with more confidence
  • Critique your own writing.

Please note: This course does not cover individual agencies' preferred styles and writing conventions. Although it touches on ministerial documents of various types, and gives you the writing tools to help you, it is not a specific course about how to write them.

Who should attend?

All Public Sector employees involved in preparing information or creating documents for external and/or internal use.

Presenter - Philip Blake (Write On)

Phillip blakePhilip is a professional writer with a wealth of experience, having worked as a national magazine columnist and winning an Australian Literature Board Fellowship, making him one of Tasmania’s most highly awarded advertising writers.  Phillip is also a trained teacher with many years of experience conducting writing courses for the public sector. His interactive courses are in high demand and are guaranteed to equip you with new skills that you can put into practice immediately.


Upcoming sessions

16 June 2025 Devonport 09:00am – 04:30pm register
19 August 2025 Hobart 09:00am – 04:30pm register
24 September 2025 Burnie 09:00am – 04:30pm register
25 September 2025 Launceston 09:00am – 04:30pm register
1 October 2025 Hobart 09:00am – 04:30pm register
4 November 2025 Hobart 09:00am – 04:30pm register
8 December 2025 Hobart 09:00am – 04:30pmregister