Course Description
In this 1-day course, you’ll get the business writing skills you need, overcome writer’s block, learn to recognize and avoid common mistakes and receive a toolkit of proven techniques for delivering information powerfully, persuasively and professionally. Participants will learn proven approaches for conveying technical information in e-mails, letters, reports, manuals, instructions, documentation and proposals. You’ll also gain insights to help you better recognize the needs of your audience, be able to organize your information to make the best possible impression. Bring a current project and get one-on-one feedback on your business writing skills.
Course Outline
- Knowing Your Audience
- Convey Technical Information Clearly to Nontechnical Readers
- Understand How to Write for Another Person’s Review and Critical Commentary
- Selecting the appropriate format for your audience
- Technical Writing Formatting and Structure
- Understand the Pitfalls, Style, and Characteristics of Technical Writing
- Learn How to Organize and Evaluate Technical Data
- Simplifying complex information/edit and revision techniques
- Present Complex Technical Information Simply
- Learn How to Use Illustrations
- Incorporating graphs, charts and tables
- Structure the Physical Format to Enhance Presentations of Ideas
- Clear and Concise Writing
- Sentence structure and powerful word usage
- Avoid Wordiness and Confusing Sentence Constructions
- Use Linking Words and Phrases in Sentences and Paragraphs
- Techniques for Ensuring Clarity and Precision
- Review Guidelines for Editing and Polishing Technical Writing
- Writing for Modern Communication Channels
- Essentials of electronic writing
- Writing for email, inter office Instant Messaging, and other informal communication
- Choosing the right channel for the right audience
Prerequisites
There are no prerequisites for this course.Duration
6 Hours | 1 Day or 2 Nights
*Academic Unit eligibility to be determined by college/university in which you are enrolled in a degree seeking program.