Onsite Programs - For Foreign Born Professionals

Clear Business Writing Training

Description:

Be more clear, concise, and organized when you write E-mail, memos, letters, and reports.

Objectives:

• Learn how to organize your ideas to create the clearest impact
• Master paragraph structure and the use of topic sentences
• Review troublesome rules of grammar and punctuation
• Improve your format to catch your readers' interest
• Eliminate errors using proofreading techniques
• Write concise and unified text, using words and phrases strategically selected
• Write English more grammatically
• Get your point across directly, with the bottom-line approach
• Know how to predict the errors you've been making and how to correct them
• Increase the impact of your writing by knowing how to reach your audience

Methodology:

Evaluation of participants' writing samples; work-related writing assignments; in-class exercises and group discussion; error analysis and writing critiques.

Our experienced ESL facilitators have degrees and certificates in English, Linguistics, Speech Pathology, Education, Business and Foreign Languages. They draw from an extensive pool of resources to design effective training that meets your employees' needs.

Scheduling:

2-Day Workshop

What You Learn:

Organizing

• Organizing documents: using emphatic order
• Planning paragraphs: topic sentences, methods of development
• Summing up: writing introductions, closings, summaries and abstracts
• Listing: using parallel order

Persuading, Describing & Instructing

• Writing persuasively: recommendations, proposals, feasibility reports
• Writing instructions and procedures
• Using illustrations
• Writing descriptions Style
• Choosing an appropriate style
• Varying the style * Creating clarity
• Unifying paragraphs and documents
• Emphasizing important points

Mechanics & Grammar

• Punctuating your documents
• Proofreading for spelling and grammatical errors
• Understanding common grammatical errors
• Using articles, prepositions, and subject-verb agreement

Target Audience:
Non-native speakers of English.

To speak with an LSA Expert and learn about program customization and delivery options onsite at your company, please contact us.