Andrew Steeds

After an early career in teaching, educational research and educational publishing, Andrew Steeds went freelance, setting up Simply Put, a company focused on making unnecessarily complicated documents clearer and more accessible, in terms of both how they are written and how they are designed. For Simply Put, he works on his own, with designers and with others to support clients to communicate more clearly and more efficiently with their readers.

Andrew has been running courses for the Publishing Training Centre (PTC) for 25 years. His main focus is on editorial activity, but he has an equal interest in the process of writing and the presentation skills of grammar and punctuation, and he runs courses in these areas, too. The PTC’s Essential Grammar, an e-learning resource which he wrote in 2017, has so far had just under 2,000 student enrolments on the course.

He divides his training time equally between in-company work and open courses.

A delegate’s observation
"The trainer was excellent, he was very clear in sharing the course objectives and in ensuring that his teaching (input), activities and discussions met those objectives. He also had very good classroom and group management skills which meant that all the discussions and activities were genuinely constructive in meeting and exceeding the course objectives. I thoroughly enjoyed the course and felt that I learnt a great deal".