Writing Effectively at The World Health Organization

Practice: Compose a main message

Earlier you identified the purpose and primary readers for a series of documents. Now let’s take it one step further. For each of the documents described, write a one-sentence main message. Remember, the main message is the central idea of the document. Everything else that is written in the document will provide support for the main message. Don’t worry if your main message is not exactly the same as ours; there are many possibilities and no one correct response.

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