Advanced Business and Technical Writing
A conservative estimate is that employees spend 40 percent of their day writing at work.
Imagine—through training—employees cutting their writing time in half and producing clear, organized, and concise documents, including emails, reports, and technical documents. What could your company accomplish with the increased productive time and improved communication?
Workshop length:
Two Days
Objectives:
- Learn and apply the writing process to two business writing scenarios
- Drive clear outcomes in emails and status reports
- Achieve clarity and conciseness in business and technical documents
- Do hands-on work on various document types
Topics:
- Mastering three principles of writing
- Clustering to capture and organize information
- Finding the right level of detail
- Ordering content based on audience and scenario
- Freewriting to draft quickly
- Organizing content for accessibility and meeting the needs of multiple readers
- Revising for clarity and conciseness
- Trimming the writing fat
- Incorporating active voice and parallel structure
- Proofreading for perfection
- Writing instructions and procedures
- Understanding the criteria for effective report writing
- Implementing the Top 10 tips for effective e-mail communication
- Incorporating the three sentence types for flow
- Punctuating for nuance and clarity
- Avoiding sources of ambiguity
- Applying tips for international business writing
- Applying workshop concepts in writing exercises and a group critique session
Smashing Review:
“Best instructor and best course I have received in my seven years with the company, and that’s saying a lot coming from a former instructor.”
J.B. CAISO
