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Participants in the Business Writing course learned to identify, avoid and correct the most common writing pitfalls and gained valuable experience analyzing, writing and revising a complete spectrum of business documents, including:

  • Memos
  • Good News/Bad News Emails
  • Proposals
  • Short Reports

Participants in this course accomplished the following:

  • Wrote effectively and ethically for diverse audiences by making rhetorically informed choices in style, syntax, tone, formatting, and conventions.
  • Applied and adapted flexible writing process strategies to produce clear, high-quality deliverables in a multitude of business writing genres.
  • Used writing as a mode of thinking to research, innovate, and communicate new ideas, solutions, and policies.
  • Used a toolkit of writing skills including word choice, grammar, organization and structure, and document design, that could be adapted to create writing styles for a variety of business writing situations.

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Writing effectively, thinking critically, and presenting information compellingly are essential skills in the 21st century workplace. This course, which can be taken onsite or online, is intended for those whose job duties include written and verbal communications or for anyone who would like to communicate more effectively. The instructors are experts regarding the most common writing mistakes and the best solutions for those mistakes.

This business writing course helps increase the student’s speed, efficiency and the accuracy of their writing. By strengthening the writing skills of the participant, it gives them the ability to create and maintain relationships, explain ideas clearly and effectively, and even to persuade others.

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