Before Writing Comes Thinking

A NEW AND DIFFERENT WAY TO IMPROVE YOUR WRITING...

As a professional writer, editor, university educator, and speaker, with more than 1,000 print and digital publications, I've recently launched an online program for enhancing your expository writing: learn2engage — With Confidence.

My mission is to help writers and would-be writers improve their thought and writing, master the logic of discussion, and strengthen their ability to deal with disagreement... which I have found to be the natural precursor to improved writing.

Many people are interested in improving their writing. But most of the time, what they really need first is to improve the way they organize their ideas, data, information, opinions and arguments.

At learn2engage, we have a better idea about teaching and coaching writing improvement. We approach writing and thinking as two sides of the same coin.

I look forward to speaking with you soon.  —   Phil Friedman

Notes:  Your questions and comments are welcome and will be answered here if posted here.

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Should you be curious about some of my writings about writing, you can take a look at the following sampling of articles:

"I'll Show You Mine, Then You Show Me Yours"

" Why I am NOT a "Writer" — And Other Random Observations on Literary Keyboarding"

"Hemingway May Have Advised to Write at a Third-Grade Level, but..."

"About Writing About Writing"

About me, Phil Friedman:  With 30 some years background in the marine industry, I've worn numerous hats — as a yacht designer, boat builder, marine operations and business manager, marine industry consultant, marine marketing and communications specialist, yachting magazine writer and editor, yacht surveyor, and marine industry educator. I am also trained and experienced in interest-based negotiation and mediation.

In a previous life, I was formally trained as an academic philosopher and taught logic and philosophy at university.