Steve Wilbers
Writing
for Business and Pleasure
Stephen Wilbers is writing consultant, author, and syndicated columnist.
Since 1983 he has offered training seminars in effective writing to more
than 5,500 business, technical, legal, and academic writers.
In addition to offering on-site training seminars, he teaches writing in
the University of Minnesota’s Management of Technology Program and
the Carlson School of Management’s M.B.A. program. In 1995 he won an
Outstanding Faculty Award for his teaching in Hamline University’s
Graduate Public Administration Program.
His syndicated column on effective business writing appears in the Minneapolis
Star Tribune, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, the Orange County Register, and
other publications.
He has published two collections of his columns, Writing for Business (winner of a 1994 Minnesota Book Award) and Writing by Wilbers. In addition, his most recent book, Keys to Great Writing (advice on how to write with clarity, emphasis, and style), is now available in bookstores and by direct order.
He is currently at work on a volume of poetry about Ernest Oberholtzer’s life and his efforts to preserve the Boundary Waters Canoe Area and Rainy Lake watershed, as well as a humorous book on writing instruction titled The Grammar of our Desire: An Exposé of Things that Split, Splice, and Dangle.
For additional information, visit his webpage at www.wilbers.com. You can
send email to him at wilbe004@umn.edu.