Course Duration
32 hours, 4-day training workshop
Delivery
Face to face training or online training
Course Inclusive
Training materials & certificate of completion
Course Objectives
This course that aims to improve the overall quality of work related documents such as memos, e-mails, reports, and letters. The course brings the participants to a clear grasp of the writing process and re-orients their views on writing towards the standards of plain English. It is for people who understand the importance of producing well-written work in the context of professionalism.
Course Outline
- Importance of Communicating Properly
- The Role of English in Business Communication
- Overview of Communication Modes in the Workplace
- Understanding Variation in Conversation Styles
- To Write or Not to Write
- To Specify is to Exclude
- Writing is Scripting
- Inadvertent Messages
- Practicable Response
- Persona
- Avoiding Vague and Ambiguous Sentences
- Avoiding Redundancy
- Avoiding Jargons
- Handling Idioms
- Subject-Verb Agreement
- Pluralization Review
- Verbs
- Tenses Review (Simple and Perfect Tenses)
- Active vs Passive Voice
- The Subjunctive Mood
- Parallelism
- Common Grammar Mistakes
- Misplaced Modifiers
- Adjectives versus Adverbs
- Prepositions
- Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement
- Most Common Grammar Errors
- Punctuation Review
- Capitalization
- Phrases, Clauses, and Sentences
- Understanding Context
- Politeness
- Gender Consciousness
- Power Relations in Conversation
- Intercultural Communication
- Types of Business Construction
- Letters (Sales, Intent, Proposal, News, etc)
- Memorandums
- Emails and Email Etiquette
- Achieving Coherence and Thought Organization
- Tone
- Aspects of Writing
- Emphasis
- Advice/ Suggestion/ Command
- Register
- Outlining
- Constructing Business Letters
- Constructing Essays
- Constructing Technical Documents
- Understanding Writing Styles
- APA
- MLA
- Citations
- Footnotes and Endnotes
- Identifying Errors and Proofreading
- MS Word Tools
- Spelling & Grammar
- Thesaurus
- The References Tab
More Writing Exercises