Welcome
Louise Tickle is a specialist education and social affairs journalist.
Her experience also takes in workplace issues, ethical business, international development and travel.
You’ll mostly see her features in The Guardian’s Education, Work and Society sections, but she also writes for publications including the TES, Community Care, YoungMinds, BBC Wildlife, BBC Countryfile, The Sunday Telegraph and Coast magazine.
She offers copywriting and editing services, and designs and delivers media training for charities, social enterprises and the education sector.
A confident and engaging public speaker, Louise is also available to chair conferences, workshops and seminars.
Latest...
Stress, sex and broken hearts
Education Guardian
Monday 13 February 2012
Can you die of a broken heart? It can certainly feel that way, and anyone who experiences intense grief after losing a loved one may wonder whether they will survive.
Dr Alexander Lyon, who is a consultant cardiologist at the Royal Brompton, the specialist heart and lung hospital, is working with researchers at Imperial College to understand why some people die in the few days after a sudden, devastating loss.
Next media training date...
Clean up your copy
Wednesday 22 February 2012
RIBA, 66 Portland Place, London W1B 1AD
It’s hard to write short and easy to write long. But if you want your work to be read, you should be writing punchy, pithy copy that leaps to the point and makes every word work for its place on the page.
Learn how to hook people in, practise a bit of slash and burn, then find out how to start at the beginning, jolly up some interest in the middle and what comes after the end...
The course will include:
- developing a sense of audience and purpose.
- making words work - how your choice of vocabulary can make or break a piece of writing.
- the rhythm of writing – using punctuation and sentence structure to create particular effects.
- the art of self-editing.
- lots of practical writing exercises and activities, with individual feedback from course trainers.
Cost £295 + VAT
15% discount for two bookings from same institution
