Center for Management Development
W. Frank Barton School of Business - Wichita State University
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BENEFITS:
Business correspondence influences judgments about competence and professionalism. Improve your writing skills by reviewing the essentials of good grammar, punctuation and business writing. This seminar is designed for professionals at every level in the organization who want to improve their writing.
NOTE: Bring to class two samples of business correspondence you composed.
OUTLINE:
- Writing as a Communication Form
- The purpose of communications
- The focus of communications
- The importance of grammar
- The eight parts of speech
- Write to Increase Readership
- Fog index
- Short sentences
- The KISS principle
- Less is better
- Write to Be Understood
- Say what you mean
- WII-FM... MMFI-AM
- Reduce the shock of "NO"
- All verbs are not equal
- Parallel
- Link ideas
- Correct Grammar Increases Understanding
- What's a comma worth?
- Punctuation pointers
- Agreement rules
- Ways to Organize the Message
- Upside pyramid
- The pyramid
- Inter-office memos
- Writing Hints
- Getting started
- Three R's of editing
Writing for someone else
Did you know?
The Basic Writing & Grammar Skills for Business course is an elective for the Management Certificate
LOCATION:
Basic Writing & Grammar Skills for Business will be held in the CMD Training Center in the Woodman Alumni Building on the Wichita State University campus in Wichita, Kansas.
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