Overview
Business Writing Essentials online has been developed by Business Writing Global and benefits from our 30 years experience as specialist providers of business writing courses.
This self-paced online course is the ‘toolkit’ covering all the principles of professional business writing.
The course shows you how to apply these principles to a variety of documents including:
- Emails
- Reports
- Proposals
- Technical documents
- Board papers
- Policies and Procedures
It has been designed so that you can work at your own pace and in your own time. You can leave the course and later resume from where you left off.
In total, it takes about 4 to 5 hours to complete.
As well as a series of videos and exercises, you will receive more than 100 pages of comprehensive reference materials.
Course Outline
Business Writing Essentials online has been developed by Business Writing Global and benefits from our 30 years experience as specialist providers of business writing courses.
In that time, we have trained more than 40,000 satisfied participants from corporate businesses and government agencies across Australia and Asia-Pacific.
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Modules
The course has been developed as a series of 16 learning modules.
It has been designed so that you can work at your own pace and in your own time. You can leave the course and later resume from where you left off.
In total, it takes about 4 to 5 hours to complete.
The course modules are:
Module 1: |
Getting started |
Module 2: |
Source documents and review |
Module 3: |
How readable is your document? |
Module 4: |
Active versus Passive voice |
Module 5: |
Paragraph and Sentence length |
Module 6: |
Purpose and Reader, including Front-Focus™ |
Module 7: |
How to identify and avoid padding |
Module 8: |
Writing Emails and Email Etiquette |
Module 9: |
Document Planning using Mind Mapping |
Module 10: |
Document Structure |
Module 11: |
Split Titles and Layout |
Module 12: |
Punctuation and Capitalisation |
Module 13: |
Wrap-up |
Module 14: |
Post-program self assessment |
Module 15: |
Final Exercise |
Module 16: |
Feedback Survey |
Cost
$250 Australian dollars + GST