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Clear Writing Through Critical Thinking

Course Category Leadership

March 06, 2025

8:00 a.m.

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On-Site

This course will be delivered on-site in CNMI.

Registration for this course is invitation-only. Please email us for additional details.

This course is designed for the CNMI Office of the Public Auditor

Course Description

Think more clearly by improving your writing. Write more clearly by improving your thinking. Understand critical thinking and learn strategies for deeper and deeper levels of thinking. Improve your thought process at each stage of the writing process. Create logical and persuasive arguments and recognize and remove faulty logic. Sharpen your problem-solving skills and enhance group success. Write plainly as mandated by the Federal Plain Writing Act of 2011 and empower your career with critical thinking and clear writing.

What You Will Learn

Learning Outcomes:

Understand and apply critical thinking in writing

Use the seven traits to evaluate and improve writing

Apply, analyze, evaluate, and create information

Think critically through each stage of the writing process

Build logical and persuasive arguments

Reason deductively and inductively

Create arguments that are consistent, complete, sound, and valid

Avoid faulty logic in your writing and evaluate documents you read for faulty logic

Devise, evaluate, and implement solutions to problems

Think critically to analyze problems

Who Should Attend

Individuals who want to improve their critical thinking and writing skills.

Tuition Fees

With funding support from the United States Department of the Interior, Office of Insular Affairs, courses are available free of charge for government accountability professionals within the insular areas. The course fee is waived and there is no cost to register and attend, Professionals who do not meet the above criteria, please contact [email protected].

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March 06, 2025

8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

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CPEs - 8 Credit Hours

On-Site, CNMI

Pacific Island Club - Saipan Afetna 502370 Beach Road, CNMI

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Instructor

Drummond Kahn

Portland, OR

Drummond Kahn serves on the faculty of the Graduate School USA, training auditors and financial managers in the U.S. and overseas. Since 1990, Mr. Kahn served in federal, state, and local government auditing positions.

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