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English for the Work Place On-Site Training

This lively one-day seminar touches all the bases for flawless communication: grammar, word usage, spelling, punctuation, capitalization and much more.

Course Description/Agenda


Length: 1 day
Number of Participants: 12-15
Materials: Notebooks and handouts provided

English for the Work Place

 

Business surveys show the most valuable skill in today’s highly competitive business arena is the ability to communicate clearly, correctly, and concisely, both in speech and in writing. This lively one-day seminar touches all the bases for flawless communication: grammar, word usage, spelling, punctuation, capitalization and much more. Couldn’t some members of your organization use a tune-up?

Introduction:  

  • Informative discussion of the English language, its increasing importance in the global marketplace, and why clear, correct communication is crucial to success in Workplace 2000
  • Self-evaluation quiz
  • Discussion and analysis of sample business letters with errors in grammar/usage/punctuation, and unclear writing.

 Program:  

  • The building blocks of language
  • Nouns and their problems
  • Frequently confused nouns
  • Apostrophe catastrophes
  • Pronouns and their problems
  • Get the right verb!
  • Active vs. passive
  • Frequently confused verbs
  • Modifier problems
  • Pesky prepositions
  • Word weeds
  • Ho-hum clichés
  • Sentences: their structure & punctuation
  • Capitalization & spelling
  • Eagle-eye proofreading
  • How to handle numbers in writing
  • Building better sentences
  • Writing for today’s readers

 

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