“I feel more engaged with the minimalistic style of the slides without a bold heading like we often do for scientific presentation. The way of breaking down importance, challenges -- every possible aspects of using plain language is captivating as well. Crystal's voice tone, pace and time spent explaining each slide is perfect to me.”

"Forget about trying to impress! I now know that I will be truly smart by writing as simply as possible. It can be a cultural challenge at times. All great literary masterpieces in my mother tongue are written in extremely complex language. This shapes the way everyone writes official documents."

"I thought I had a pretty good understanding of scientific English, but I definitely found some errors in my work through this challenge. It was a good reminder to be vigilant about my own blind spots."

"Small changes can have a big impact on how your writing comes across, and this is a low pressure way to start making those changes."

"This course brings sound foundations to common-sense insights, perfectly-pitched examples, and a bunch of awesome materials."

"I was able to put into immediate practice the teachings in my job search for new employment as well as in the book reviews that I edit..."

"It was all really good. Good story structure for the lessons. Good examples. Good amount of info each day."

"It validated some things I was already doing and it gave me more confidence to assert that approach going forward."

"The short videos with the handouts made this an awesome short course."

"It was a quick and easy way to improve my writing"

"Great topic + great trainer"