BUSINESS WRITING FOR PROFESSIONALS
Length
10 weeks
1 session per week
4 hours per session
Total Class: 40 hours
Audience
Companies recognizing that the effective flow of information is the lifeline of the business, enroll their employees in this fast-faced hands-on training. This class will help employees who communicate throughout the day to write effectively, answering the steady stream of correspondence, writing reports, procedures, manuals, and proposals. This class is guaranteed to improve your writing skills. Enroll today.
Recommended Prerequisites
Comfortable reading and writing English
Topic
Refresher on Grammar
- Three “C’s” and a “K” of Writing
- Punctuation
- Proofreading Techniques
Writing Clear Memos
- 4 Elements of Writing a Memo
- Memo Model
- Action Words to Remember
The Elements of Style
- Organizational Principles to Clear Writing
- Hot, Cool, Formal and Informal Writing
My Personal Tone Teaching a Techie to Write, Procedures and Manuals
- Know Your Audience
- Eight Essential Writing Skills for Techies
- Active vs. Passive Writing
Writing an Executive Summary
- Types of Executive Summaries
- 7 questions to Answer in the Executive Summary
- Formatting to Enhance the Executive Summary
Don’t Click Send. A first Look at E-mail Etiquette
- The Ten Commandments of E-mails and Letters
- Steps to follow for Writing Effective E-mails
- Grooming Your E-mails
Follow the Rules of Writing, or Not
- Never End a Sentence with a Preposition
- Never Begin a Sentence with “And or But”
- Never Split an Infinitive. What’s Infinitive?
All Occasion Writing
- Introduction of a Speaker
- Acceptance of an Award
- Invitation to a Company Event
How to Write a Basic Proposal
- Elements of the Proposal
- Testing for Accuracy
- Language, Language, Language
Writing Persuasively
- Ten Techniques for Writing Persuasively
- Presentations
- Graduation Ceremony