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Business Writing: Better Business Correspondence
Course Details
Are you swamped with e-mail and correspondence? Would you like to streamline your writing, get to the point, but still maintain courtesy and professionalism?
Business Writing helps you strengthen your writing, and saves you time, energy, and unnecessary work. You can increase your confidence when responding to a complaint letter, delivering unwelcome news, editing someone else’s work, or writing a persuasive document.
In this workshop, you will consider a letter’s tone, format, logic, and clarity. Then you will write and review at least two samples and review e-mail etiquette.
What Should I Bring to Class?
Please bring three business letters or emails, preferably at least one paragraph in length, which you have recently written. You will use these samples of your work to assess your current writing style, apply techniques discussed in class, and develop strategies for improving your writing.
Professional Development Units (PDUs) and Continuing Education Units (CEUs)
This seminar is worth 7 PDUs and .65 CEUs.
There is no prerequisite for this course.
Who Should Attend
- Anyone who writes letters, memos, and e-mail
Outcomes
- Understand the importance of effective business writing
- Improve your writing style by:
- Choose an appropriate tone for your correspondence
- Write business correspondence with clear purpose statements, action statements, and a logical sequence
- Use proper e-mail etiquette and style
- Use tips and techniques for faster, more powerful writing
- Avoiding overused words
- Eliminating redundancy
- Using the active voice
- Creating simple and forceful sentences
- Understanding commonly misused words
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