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.

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.