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Business Writing


Description
Course Description:
Effective writing is a powerful tool in the business environment.
Learn how to articulate your thoughts in a clear and concise
manner that will allow your ideas to be better understood by
your readers. Improve your business writing skill by learning to
select and use appropriate formats for your audience, use the
correct medium and adjust your writing style accordingly, as
well as identify your objective and communicate it clearly.
You'll also learn to spot, correct and avoid the most common
writing pitfalls, and gain valuable experience analyzing, writing
and revising a wide spectrum of business documents. From a
simple interoffice memo to a twenty-page business proposal,
learn how to put good business writing to work for you.

Course Features:
- 12 hours of in-class training
- 10 hours of online training
- Verified online certificate from University of Colorado
- Boulder - USA
- Statement of Accomplishment from Afghanistan
Project Management Center
Content
  • MODULE 1
  • 1.1 What is Good Writing
  • 1.2 Be the Windowpane
  • 1.3 Waste No Time
  • 1.4 Practice Quiz : Simplifying Sentences
  • 1.5 Don't Sound Smart; Be Smart
  • 1.6 Own Your Ideas
  • 1.7 Practice Quiz : Edit out the wishy-washy
  • 1.8 Everyone Needs an Editor; or, the Story of My Failure
  • 1.9 Why johnny Can't Write, and Why Employers are Mad
  • 1.11 Who are you?
  • 1.12 Appearance Matters
  • 1.13 Looking Your Best
  • 1.14 Dave Gives Pointers- Type is the Message
  • 1.15 Practice Quiz : Improve memos with design elements
  • 1.16 Success!
  • 1.17 Week 1 Quiz
  • MODULE 2
  • 2.1 Organize or Die
  • 2.2 Great Writers Are Great Revisers
  • 2.3 The Organizational Scaffold You Need for Everything
  • 2.4. Quiz: The element of the scaffold
  • 2.5 Quentin, William, and Dave Brainstorm the Memo
  • 2.6 Have No Fear of English as a Second Language
  • 2.7 Bonus Video- The Basics of Greatness
  • 2.8 A Blank Page- Facing the Void
  • 2.9 Quiz: compare openings
  • 2.10 Say it- The Body Paragraphs
  • 2.11 Quiz: Starting with the Most Important Point
  • 2.12 Building Out the Scaffold
  • 2.13 What Corporate America Can't Build
  • 2.14 The Conclusion Concludes
  • 2.15 Quiz: Practicing the Scaffold
  • MODULE 3
  • 3.1 It's Go Time!
  • 3.2 The First Paragraph Roadmap
  • 3.3 Quiz: What Goes in the First Paragraph?
  • 3.3 Signposting with Topic Sentences
  • 3.4 Quiz: Writing Strong Topic Sentences
  • 3.5 William on Voicing Writing- How Does it Sound
  • 3.6 Writing a Paragraph
  • 3.7 Revising a Paragraph
  • 3.8 The Conclusion Concludes _Reprise
  • 3.9 Quiz: Critique These Conclusions
  • 3.10 Does Good Grammar Matter
  • 3.11 Grammar Blast - I vs. Me
  • 3.12 Quiz: I vs. Me
  • 3.13 Grammar Blast - Mangled Modifiers
  • 3.14 Quiz: Fix These Modifiers
  • 3.15 Grammar Blast - Serial or Oxford Comma
  • 3.16 Quiz: Serial Comma Practice
  • 3.17 Grammar Blast - Pronoun Problems
  • 3.18 Quiz: Pronoun Placement
  • 3.19 Grammar Blast - Apostrophe Abuse
  • 3.20 Quiz: Apostrophe Practice
  • 3.21 Grammar Blast - Your, You're, Their, They're, There
  • 3.22 Quiz: Your vs. You're, There vs. Their vs. They're: Test Your Skill!
  • 3.23 Grammar Blast - That vs. Which
  • 3.24 Quiz: That vs. Which
  • Quiz: Rubric Training 1
  • Quiz: Rubric Training 2
  • MODULE 4
  • 4.1 Writing is Revision
  • 4.2 Check Your Scaffold
  • 4.3 Keep It Simple
  • 4.4 Quiz: Simplify Sentences
  • 4.5 Brevity is the Soul of Wit
  • 4.6 Dave on How Logo Design Reflects Brevity and Clarity
  • 4.7 Always be Specific_ Avoid Generalities and Jargon
  • 4.8 Quiz: Edit Out Generalities and Jargon
  • 4.9 The Power of Active Voice
  • 4.10 Quiz: Identify Passive Voice
  • 4.11 Quiz: Change from Passive to Active
  • 4.12 Limit Crutch Verbs
  • 4.13 Quiz: Remove "to be" and "to have"
  • 4.14 Cut Prepositional Phrases
  • 4.15 Quiz: Edit out Prepositional Phrases
  • 4.16 Don't Repeat Words
  • 4.17 Quiz: Finding Repeated Words
  • 4.18 Always Proofread
  • 4.19 A Word on Email
  • 4.20 Long Documents_ in Brief
  • 4.21 In Conclusion
  • 4.22 Time to Design - Dave Takes the Memo
  • 4.23 Quiz: Final Editing Quiz
  • Memo Writing Practice
  • Final Assignment
Completion rules
  • All units must be completed