Business Writing

Bad writing distorts your ideas. This course will teach you how to write better, more effectively, and without wasting time on draft after draft. By the end of this course, you will have identified and corrected the weaknesses in your writing. You’ll be writing clear, concise business documents that will help you communicate effectively with colleagues and clients.

The ability to write well has always been a necessary skill for professionals. But now with everyone facing compressed timelines and information overload, it is more important than ever. In this workshop, students learn how to make all their professional communications more concise, polished, and precise.

After completing this course you will know how to:

• arrange ideas so that readers keep reading
• write for the intended audience
• craft easy-to-understand sentences and paragraphs
• decide what you want from (and for) your readers
• motivate readers to act or respond
• convey messages in as few words as possible
• polish your letters, email, newsletters, presentations, and social media postings
• format writing so it is interesting to read
• edit and proofread your writing
• and much more...