Many salespeople talk to much, and many business communicators use too many words.  Participants learn to get their points across using direct, action-based phrasing, saving readers time and effort.  They learn to avoid the passive voice and clearly link subjects to verbs and verbs to objects.

Editing:

Good writing requires good editing.  A goal of this workshop, therefore, is to help participants become more thorough, proficient, and systematic editors.  Topics include organization, tone, word choice, grammar, and mechanics.  Participants receive a checklist of issues to consider at each stage of the editing process and practice applying key concepts through a series of editing exercises.

Content:

The Business Writing Skills course also teaches students how to write letters, e-mails, memos, and reports that people understand and take seriously.  The course is designed to help students feel that they can write an e-mail tomorrow morning confident that it will be understood and generate the desired response.

After completing this course, the participants will understand the importance of:

The skills to becoming a persuasive and effective business writer are broken down into modules that can be easily absorbed at each step.   Participants practice thoroughly each module before moving on to the next.  With each subsequent module, participants must also incorporate the skills learned in each preceding one.  Going forward beyond the classroom, participants are given