Effective business writing workshop

This is a one-day intensive workshop that focuses on developing advanced business writing skills. Through a combination of mentoring and exercises, participants will learn to develop audience-focused communications, written with style and assembled into a document that delivers the message.

The morning session deals specifically with writing skills and document development while the afternoon is focused on polishing writing styles include structure and language use.

Course content

This course covers the following topics:

•    The basic tools of effective writing
•    Audience-centric writing
•    Planning and structuring your writing
•    The importance of ‘style’ and style guides
•    Writing in plain English
•    Review and revision of your documents.
•    Sentence structure, grammar and punctuation
•    Word order and sentence structure
•    Common grammatical errors
•    Language and spelling traps
•    Punctuating your work for easy understanding.

Who will benefit from this course

This workshop is delivered as a one-day intensive session where the focus is clearly on business writing skills and knowledge of software capabilities is assumed. It is aimed at the same cohort groups as the course in effective workplace writing but where examples are and exercises have a clear business focus. It is suited to:

i.    Young professionals who want to develop or improve their writing skills
ii.    Business people who need to write powerful business documents for their organization or presentation to clients
iii.    Students who need to acquire writing skills for college or university

Learning result

At the end of this workshop participants will know

•    How to create professional documents and presentations that are audience-focused
•    How to develop and use style sheets and style manuals
•    The importance of planning and organizing a writing project and how to develop storyboards or other forms of outline
•    How supplementary material can be organized and incorporated in a way that supports the flow of information
•    Different styles of writing and the importance of communications in plain English
•    Avoiding verbosity and providing clear signposts to readers as you develop your theme
•    The process of review, revision and assembly towards finalizing a document
•    How to assemble tables of contents and the layout of other  ‘prelim’ material
•    Correct sentence and paragraph structures
•    How written English varies as between Australian, British and US variants and how to avoid language pitfalls.