Effective Business Writing Skills

The University of Auckland Business School
Christchurch, New Zealand

Course Format: Classroom | E-learning | Virtual Class | Online/Live | On-site/In-house | Blended | Self-paced

Course Description:

'' Today’s professionals not only need to be competent in their chosen fields, they also need to be competent writers. As technology has advanced, writing skills have declined, leaving competent writers as an elite, minority group. This course provides a practical introduction to business writing. It examines the makeup of effective writing and provides valuable time to structure and write effective business documents for a variety of business contexts, including letters, reports and memos. The course has an emphasis on writing for the reader, in a succinct manner, using Plain English.

Who should attend?
This course has been designed for professionals whose work requires the writing of quality reports and business documents for internal (management) and/or external (clients, funding bodies) readers.

Learning outcomes
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
- identify the purpose of the writing
- identify the audience’s needs
- utilise a wide range of effective strategies for writing and editing reports, letters and other formal and informal documents
- apply the concept of Plain English in your writing
- select and organise information logically
- demonstrate, through writing letters, reports and memos, that the content is appropriate for the writer’s purpose, the organisational conventions and the requirements of the intended audience.

Content
- Effective vs ineffective writing
- Common business letter formats
- Formal, status and progress report formats and structures
- Writing for the reader
- Maintaining the reader’s goodwill
- Active vs passive voice
- Weak nouns and strong verbs
- Sentence and paragraph construction and transitions
- Writing succinctly
- Editing and proofreading, including punctuation, spelling and grammar
...''

Elements of this syllabus are subject to change.

Phone:+64 3 364 2470

School Address/Venue(s):

Continuing & Bridging Education
University of Canterbury
Private Bag 4800
Christchurch 8140
New Zealand

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