Communicating with Confidence: Make Your Business Writing More Effective
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Course Description
This course focuses on improving business writing. The ability to write clearly and directly is highly prized in organizations. You will learn how to be a better writer and how to revise your writing to make it purposeful and effective.
The ideas, techniques, and checklists in this course apply to all forms of business writing: memos, reports, brochures, proposals, presentations, catalogs, and websites. You will learn to recognize key factors for effective writing (clarity, tone, organization, delivery), how to answer the reader's question: What's in it for me?, and how to structure, format, and write quickly (when appropriate). Other topics include formal and informal outlining techniques, how to revise for wordiness, unnecessary phrases, redundancy, and jargon, and the appropriate use of email in an organizational setting.
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The ideas, techniques, and checklists in this course apply to all forms of business writing: memos, reports, brochures, proposals, presentations, catalogs, and websites. You will learn to recognize key factors for effective writing (clarity, tone, organization, delivery), how to answer the reader's question: What's in it for me?, and how to structure, format, and write quickly (when appropriate). Other topics include formal and informal outlining techniques, how to revise for wordiness, unnecessary phrases, redundancy, and jargon, and the appropriate use of email in an organizational setting.
Course Outline
After completing this course, you'll be able to:
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- Recognize ineffective and effective writing.
- Recognize factors for effective writing (clarity, tone, organization, delivery).
- Understand the importance of purposeful writing and answering the reader's question: What's in it for me?
- Employ formal and informal outlining techniques.
- Understand key techniques for brainstorming and overcoming writer's block.
- Write in a more concise and direct manner.
- Understand how to structure, format and write quickly when appropriate.
- Revise for wordiness, unnecessary phrases, redundancy and jargon.
- Understand the appropriate use of email in an organizational setting.
- Employ checklists for organizing, writing and revising.
More Information
| Language | English |
| Course Length | 6.00 hours |
| Duration of Access | 120 days |
| Instructor | Self Study |
| Vendor | MindEdge,Inc. |
| Course Certification | Winchester Center for Management Development certificate of completion |
| Prerequisites/Audience | Level: Introductory-Intermediate |
Price: $ 125.00 (USD)
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