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Three Writing Tips To Improve Your Sba 8A Disadvantage Narrative

1. Don't write a report, make it personal - The narrative is a story, not a report.  Many of my college educated clients assume that the more facts and quotes you add, the better the narrative. This is not true.  The narrative is a personal story of incidents of discrimination and harassment that have kept you from reaching your potential.  Keep your narrative in the first person, recounting events in your personal and professional life.

Remember that the social disadvantage narrative is based upon negative experiences, I call this the "lemon story" versus the "lemonade story", so there is no need to add good news to make it appear you have "overcome obstacles".

2. Keep the quotes short - While it is good to include quotes to reinforce and enhance your narrative, keep them short, no more than a couple sentences. Be sure to give basic reference information,but you do not have to prepare a bibliography, again it is your story, not a report.  Do not include more than seven quotes in the total narrative.  Normally my client narratives range from six to ten pages in length.  The quotes should be reinforcing specific issues, for example: If you graduated from a high school with a very high dropout rate or if your community has a very high crime rate.

3. Be specific and detailed about incidents - When you are describing incidents from your personal or professional life, be as specific as possible.  Be sure to include:
-the month/year of the incident
-the name of your supervisor
-any witnesses to the event
-a summary of the event
-and most important the economic or financial fallout from the event. This is especially important if you do not have court documents to support your claims.  Here is an example:

In 1999, I met with John Smith of Acme ABC Prime Contractors in Houston, Texas to talk about partnering on the upcoming NASA contract. While he was intially interested in speaking with me on the phone, I noticed that in our face-to-face meeting he avoided making any promises to partner with my company. And he kept speaking directly to my assistant, John Jones even though John reminded him that I was the owner of the company.  It was apparent Mr. Smith would rather work directly with a male salesperson than a woman.  Not getting this partnership cost my company approximately $100K per month for five years.  See attached: A notarized statement from John Jones on his description of this failed sales meeting.

About the Author

Karen Miller is The 8a Mentor, helping small business owners successfully prepare their SBA 8a social /economic disadvantage narratives.  Get a free Special Report and save thousands of dollars in SBA 8a preparation at: www.The8aMentor.com

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Writing Incident Reports

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Sports Journalism Courses – Writing about Your Team's Glory, Glory Days

Do you enjoy writing? Do you love sports? Then perhaps a sports journalism course may be an ideal way to combine your love and your enjoyment.

How many times have you been to an exciting football match full of goals and controversial incidents and returned home talking and raving about how great the game was, only to read something quite different in the newspaper the next morning? It's almost as if the reporter was at a completely different match, either that or they were so taken by the club's marvellous half time pies, that they didn't make it back to their seat for the second half!

You really believe that you could have written a much better account of the events. Why not take a course in sports writing and prove your point? You know you can talk football, but now you can learn all the other skills needed to see your reports appearing in magazines, newspapers and websites.

The passion and intensity of the Six Nations Championship has held you captivated, there has been plenty of rivalry at the office and the matches at Twickenham, Murryfield and the Millennium Stadium have left you and other fans salivating at some of the rugby on display.

Now it's time to share it with others and describe how the Welsh can really sing, how that scintillating try was scored, how that horrendous injury happened and how your team sat on top of the pile at the end of the tournament!

Andy Murray has reached yet another Grand Slam final and yet again has fallen at the final hurdle. Write about how the Scot is carrying the weight of British tennis on his shoulders and doing a really fine job under the circumstances or take an opposing view that once again, a British tennis star proves to be a great underachiever and never lifts the trophies that are the most coveted!

There has probably never been a more exciting time to write about sport in the UK, with the grandstand event that is the London 2012 Olympics now on the horizon. As British athletes begin to hope and dream, and to pray that they steer clear of injury for the next 12 months, you can write about what it's like to have a sporting event of such magnitude right on your doorstep.

The internet has changed and expanded the journalism market significantly. Not only can you still aim to write for newspapers and magazines but now there are thousands of websites and blogs entirely dedicated to the love of sport and sports news. You can even create your own sports blog, full of your own sports news!

We have only just scraped the tip of the sporting iceberg; there is so much to write about and so many sports celebrities to enthuse over that it really may be the perfect time to enrol in a sports journalism course.

About the Author

For much more information about how you can take a sports journalism course, please visit us at our website at www.ctjt.biz

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