Better Business Writing in One Week
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Description
Business letters, memos, e-mails, proposals...not everyone's a writer, yet every businessperson is expected to write -- a scary prospect for professionals without formal writing training!
Fear no more -- you're only one week away from clearer, more confident writing. This unique course includes one work-week (five days) of daily lessons, designed explicitly for business professionals. Students learn about grammar, clarity, precision, organization and style, then apply their knowledge to write better business letters, e-mails, memos and more.
Practical lessons, examples and activities draw from real-world business situations that professionals face every day, helping all students gain confidence and accuracy in their written communications.
Outcomes
Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Differentiate a complete sentence from a fragment.
- Determine which case to use in a given situation ("I" or "me," "who" or "whom").
- Identify and correct misplaced modifiers.
- Choose proper punctuation.
- Differentiate between the plural and the possessive.
- Choose correct words and express themselves more accurately.
- Organize their writing logically.
- Get to the point of the message
- Write clearer, more accurate memos, letters, e-mail messages, and other pieces of business writing.
Assessment
- Each lesson includes activities and/or quizzes to assess the students' knowledge.
- After the final lesson, students will take a multiple-choice exam.
complete course 10 Hours
available 1 Weeks
Marsha Freedman is the owner of Basic Learning Systems, where she works as a trainer, coach and professional speaker in the field of communication skills. She has taught a number of distance education courses that all focus on the being successful with writing in the field of business.
