Essential Business Writing Skills

This Programme gives participants the opportunity to build on their business writing skills

Suitable for team leaders, managers and staff who regularly write emails, letters and reports as part of their role and who would like to improve the quality and appearance of their written output. This Programme is also suitable for anyone studying English as a second language.

Learning Objectives

• Prepare, edit and write effectively
  
• Use a clear, logical and well recognised structures for letters, emails and reports
  
• Use plain English
  
• Improve grammar, punctuation and spelling
  

Programme Outline

• The Essentials of a well-written Document

• CONTENT MANAGEMENT

         Getting Ready to Write – Know Your Audience/The Importance of: KISS (Keeping it Simple and Straightforward)

• STRUCTURE
  

         Letter Structures/email Structures/Report Structures

• LANGUAGE
  

         Importance of Tone and Language/Avoiding Passive Language/Measuring the impact of your language

• PUNCTUATION, SPELLING AND GRAMMAR
  

         The Essentials of Good Punctuation/Common Punctuation and Grammatical Errors: Identifying and rectifying the ‘top-ten’/
         Popular Spelling Errors/Commonly Confused Words

• Action plans
  

Workshop Options
This Programme is highly customisable and can be modified to convey the organisation’s writing standards/develop writing standards

A highly participative ‘hands-on’ workshop from out tutor who is passionate – some say pedantic – about the written word. The programme contains formal tutor input as well as a range of ‘mini-quizzes’ to help Participants self-assess and build on their existing writing skills. Participants can expect to grow their confidence too.

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