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This course provides students with a review of the skills needed to write successful, effective letters, memos, minutes, proposals, reports, and press releases. It also covers sentence and word choice, common pitfalls, spelling and grammar rules, and pre-writing techniques.
Training Avaliability and Delivery
| This is primarily online training |  | This is an online eLearning or CBT training program |  | This course may be available for home-study |  | Courseware may be available for purchase |  | Self Directed |  | Contact Online Training Directory for more information |
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| Schedule: | flexible | | Training Presented in: | English |
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Related Keywords:
workplace
communication
writing
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Training Program Details
How To Master Business Writing
How To Master Business Writing
This course provides students with a review of the skills needed to write effective letters, memos, minutes, proposals, reports, and press releases. It also reviews basic spelling, punctuation, and grammar rules. It teaches students the importance of pre-writing activities, such as audience analysis, brainstorming, outlining, and first drafts. It covers sentence and word choice so the students will be able to determine the most effective and appropriate words and sentence lengths. The course warns the students of common pitfalls, such as wordiness, cliches, active vs. passive voice, misplaced modifiers, and formal vs. informal tone. These skills are taught by using text, examples, exercises, and quizzes.
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Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Create letters, memos, minutes, proposals, and press releases
- Use correct spelling and grammar in a document
- Practice pre-writing exercises
- Choose words carefully
- Avoid common writing pitfalls
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Student performance is assessed by cumulative training time, number of lessons completed and, where tests are available, the percent correct. Many courses also have a pre- and post-test where the pre-test will automatically assign only the lessons needed to achieve course mastery.
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Course Information (see above or below lessons, outlines, activities, etc.)
Program Outline
This course contains 34 lessons
- Evaluate Tone And Voice
- Use Tone And Voice
- Choose Your Words
- Evaluate Words
- Look At Sentences
- Create Appropriate Sentences
- Understand Punctuation Basics
- Understand Grammar Basics
- Look At Spelling, Grammar, and Readability
- Correct Grammar and Spelling Errors
- Analyze Your Audience
- Overcome Writer’s Block
- Organize Your Ideas
- Create An Outline
- Use A First Draft
- Examine Fonts And Bullets
- Understand Margins And Paragraph Alignment
- Improve Legibility
- Understand Business Letters
- Review Types Of Business Letters
- Look At Complaint Letters
- Understand Envelopes
- Examine Meeting Minutes
- Understand Faxes
- Master Memos
- Understand Proposals
- Review Proposals
- Look At Reports
- Review Reports
- Use Graphics
- Create A Title Page
- Generate A Table Of Contents
- Examine Press Releases
- Create A Press Release
Contact Hours: 6
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Online Training Directory - Workforce and Continuing Ed online courses are offered at basic, intermediate and advanced levels. Going beyond basic training provides a deeper and more educationally rewarding learning experience, especially for students who wish to advance careers or initiate new ones. For the general lifelong learner we continue to offer "fun to learn" single, stand-alone courses.
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