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Effective Business Writing

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Price: $169.00

Course Duration: 6.00 Hours

Certificate: Yes

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Program Overview

Writing effectively is a critical business skill that contributes to success on the job. EFFECTIVE BUSINESS WRITING is a four-module program that guides you through practical techniques to efficiently produce clear, well-organized, and professional e-mail, memos, letters, and reports. Numerous exercises provide hands-on practice.

Listen to a short introduction from The Writing Center.

This four-module Business Writing Program from The Writing Center includes:

Module 1-Clear, Direct Wording
Module 2-Flow and Format
Module 3-The Writing Process
Module 4-Organizing Business Documents

The four-module program is $169.00. Upon registration, links to all four modules will be available under My Learning Links.

Program Features

Module 1
Increase your documents' clarity by eliminating wordiness
Emphasize important ideas by placing key words in power positions
Use active and passive voice effectively
Ensure precise, unambiguous wording
Increase reader understanding by translating jargon and avoiding pompous wording.

Module 2
Use transitional words to connect ideas and improve flow
Use headings and subheadings to move the reader from one point to another
Use numbered and bulleted lists effectively to make information more accessible
Use parallel structure to enhance flow and emphasize relationships of ideas
Use paragraphs to separate ideas

Module 3
Reduce writing and re-writing time with an efficient four-step writing process.
use your knowledge of the document's purpose, goal, and audience to:
Write effective subject headings, beginnings, and endings
Write appropriately for different audiences
Gain cooperation and build goodwill with reader-centered wording

Module 4
Capture your main ideas in a Zero Draft
Choose an appropriate organizational pattern for every on-the-job document you write

Program Instructor

: The Writing Center

The Writing Center, Inc.

The Writing Center, Inc., specializes in customized corporate business and technical writing programs that increase the clarity, impact, and overall professionalism of participants' on-the-job documents. Carol S. Klein, M.A., and Sandra S. Nutting, M.A., The Writing Center's founders, have more than 30 years' combined experience in teaching effective writing.

Their reputation for consistently excellent programs and their recognized writing experience has resulted in their selection to design and conduct hundreds of in-house seminars for government agencies and for leading U.S. aerospace, consulting, environmental, health care, insurance, manufacturing, and technology companies. Carol and Sandra believe that writing is a skill that can be mastered with the knowledge of essential techniques.
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Additional Courses and Programs Offered

Business Grammar Program
Business Grammar Program: Module 2-Spelling and Usage
Business Grammar Program: Module 3-Grammar and Sentence Structure
Effective Business Writing: Module 3 - The Writing Process
Effective Business Writing: Module 2 - Flow and Format
Effective Business Writing: Module 4 - Organizing Business Documents
Technical Writing Program
Technical Writing Program: Module 4 - Organizing Technical Documents
Technical Writing Program: Module 2 - Illustrations, Flow, and Format
Technical Writing Program: Module 3 - The Writing Process: Planning Technical Documents
Writing Center - Free Course Preview
Writing Effective E-Mail

Living and Learning Lessons

Writing Center - 10 Tips for Effective Performance Appraisals
Writing Center - Checklist for Effective E-Mail
Writing Center - Five FAQs About Business Writing
Writing Center - Five More FAQs On Business Writing
Writing Center - Five Proofreading Tips
Writing Center - Maintaining Staff Writing Skills
Writing Center - Six Steps for Effective Memos
Writing Center - Six Tips for Effective Self-Appraisals
Writing Center - Six Tips for Writing Minutes of Meetings
Writing Center - Writing Commendation Memos