Posts tagged ‘professional conduct’
Summer interns
A few months back I commented on the parts of technical writing I enjoy–the nuance of language, a collegial atmosphere. This month I’m adding another aspect, summer interns.
international interns, chapter advisors, and competition manager
I have been fortunate to work with a group of international students on a not-for-profit project. They have taken on planning an event for the Fall. Short of registering their friends and family back home, they are promoting the event in every way possible. They’ve created a plan, designed a logo, multiplied the database, and learned a bit about technical writing too. The students became organized as any product team might except that their buzz was about learning English, not launching a product.
International students find internships to practice speaking and listening, reading and writing in English. Passing those skills on a proficiency exam is a key to their future.
Saved by the rules, bothered by the exceptions
File this under know your audience. A classmate asked for help to understand an excerpt from the rules of professional conduct.
An Immigration Consultant shall not represent parties with potentially conflicting interests in an immigration matter, save after adequate disclosure to and with the consent of the parties, and shall not act or continue to act in a matter when there is or is likely to be a conflict of interest.
The word save can be used as a verb, noun, preposition, and conjunction. Save used as literary term is out of context when found in policies and procedures writing. Don’t do it. Constructed as such, it’s not immediately evident that an exception follows the rule.
In the context of writing policy you want to deconstruct it something like this.
Rule: An Immigration Consultant shall not represent parties with…
Exception: Only after adequate disclosure to…
February update: The U.S. “brain-dead immigration system” is more reason to come to Canada. Read the article.