Writing

Bring important ideas to life

Ethos CRS creates text that works at any level of complexity and which suits any business need. We produce content that is not only accurate, but comprehensible and stylistically appealing.

We can help you with all kinds of writing tasks, including:

Corporate and business writing

The Ethos CRS team has had extensive experience writing all kinds of high level corporate and business documents and publications. These include:

  • annual reports (including a Silver Award winner at the IPAA awards)
  • yearbooks
  • discussion papers
  • communications strategies
  • submissions
  • briefs
  • proposals
  • ministerial letters

When writing complex documents, writers have to be careful to realise a defined purpose. The staff of Ethos CRS produce text that brings important ideas to life.

Articles, ads, scripts, media releases

Our writers at Ethos CRS have worked for daily metropolitan newspapers such as The Sydney Morning Herald and The Australian Financial Review, and for current affairs television and radio, with the ABC and SBS.

They have worked for government departments in communications and media teams.

Their experience is incredibly broad. They understand the process from the point of view of the writer and, most importantly, the reader. They have written:

  • articles including for countless Budgets and other major political events
  • scripts for films and television programs
  • copy for radio, press, television and internet ads
  • media releases for ministers, government departments and corporations
  • opinion pieces
  • letters to the editor
  • forewords for books

Speeches

The Ethos CRS writers have written speeches for the Prime Minister, other ministers, secretaries of Commonwealth departments, chief executive officers and many others besides.

The kinds of speeches we have written include:

  • policy announcements
  • landmark speeches
  • statements
  • launches
  • powerpoint presentations
  • seminars

If you need a thoughtful, engaging, well-constructed speech for any occasion, the writers at Ethos CRS can write it for you.

Manuals, brochures, posters, web pages

We understand the principles of clear writing, of voice and tone, and, of course, English grammar. As professional writers, we write in an unambiguous and uncluttered style. This is essential for all types of publications, even those that seem simple and straightforward. Don't be fooled—what you believe is obvious and clear may be incomprehensible to someone who lacks the relevant background.

The writers at Ethos CRS have had vast experience writing for very different audiences—from the prime minister and cabinet ministers to Indigenous people living in remote Australia for whom English may be a fifth or sixth language.

We have written:

  • books
  • magazines
  • newsletters
  • workbooks
  • manuals
  • brochures
  • booklets
  • flyers
  • posters
  • web pages

In our work, we follow the conventions specified in the sixth edition Commonwealth Style Manual.

Meg Dixon-Child, heads up writing services

Meg Dixon-Child has worked as a journalist, speechwriter, and communications and media adviser in both the public and private sector. She has a proven record in political journalism and analysis. Her specialist skills are communications and media management, speechwriting, and policy analysis and development. She lives and breathes parliamentary and political processes.