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Business Grammar and Proofreading Webinar
The ability to communicate clearly through your writing has become more important than ever in today's lightning-fast business environment. In fact, hiring managers say they specifically look for people with superior writing skills when they are hiring new employees.
Course Description/Agenda The
ability to communicate clearly through your writing has become
more important than ever in today’s lightning-fast business
environment. In fact, hiring managers say they specifically look
for people with superior writing skills when they are hiring new
employees. And to be honest, if you’re sending out written
correspondence—from emails to memos to reports and more—with
errors, typos and bad grammar, it looks terrible and can have a
permanent effect on how people see you.
We’ve
taken the dread out of learning these essential business skills
and created a course that’s actually INTERESTING and FUN to
attend!
That’s why
we developed this course, Business Grammar &
Proofreading, a fun training session that makes learning
this critical skill fun—not like a mindless, boring day back in
fourth-grade grammar class. Packed with enjoyable exercises,
lively discussion and real-world examples of how you SHOULD be
writing, this can be ... seriously ... a career-changing class.
Attendees
have told us that after they get back to work, they receive high
praise for their writing, and other employees begin to copy their
style. That can be you too if you enroll in this terrific course
today!
What You
Will Learn
- Methods to write in a
readable, action-driven style
- To impress your readers by
commanding a strong presence using good grammar
- Hands-on exercises to spark
your creativity and provide improved writing skills
- The basics of proofreading and
rules to remember
- How to turn strong grammar and
writing into a more professional look for your advertising and
marketing efforts
WORKSHOP
AGENDA
Program time: 3 hours
Session
1: Out
With the Old Business Communication Rules and in With the New!
- Still clinging to "old"
business writing and usage ideas? Professional examples of
how modern, written business communication should sound
- Why a casual, friendly
tone is key to contemporary business communication
- Strategies for eliminating
stiff, formal language and avoiding wordiness
- Understanding why concise
communication is imperative today, whether you’re writing a
formal report or an email
- Most-often misused words
in business documents, including words that don’t exist
Session
2: "Must-Know"
Grammar Basics for Blunder-free Writing
- Image-crippling mistakes
to avoid: Grammar blunders that professionals most
frequently make
- What a misplaced modifier
is and how it can wreak havoc with your meaning
- A simple way to make sure
your subjects and verbs agree—guaranteed!
- "That’s up to you and I"
or "That’s up to you and ME"? How to choose the right
pronoun
- Handy grammar resources
that will provide answers to even your trickiest questions
Session
3: Smart
Ways to Rev Up Your Sentences—and Polish Your Professional
Image!
- How to use active verbs
and voice to communicate more powerfully
- Wake up your readers by
slashing adjectives and dumping unnecessary adverbs
- Tips for using varying
sentence patterns and sentence lengths to express your ideas
- Less is more: "How-to’s"
for trimming the fat from your documents
- Pointers for adding zing
to your written communication
Session
4: Handy
"Cheat Sheets" for Capitalization, Numbers and Abbreviations
- The 10 Commandments of
Capitalization for business communication
- Rules for capitalizing
professional titles and names of things
- The Rule of 10 for
spelling numbers and expressing them in figures
- When—and how—to abbreviate
and when to spell it out
Session
5: Punctuation
Made Easy for the Semicolon-challenged!
- Punctuation mistakes that
are instant credibility killers—ones you’ll never again
make!
- Avoid "comma-itis" by
knowing when a comma is essential
- Easy ways to keep
semicolons and commas straight
- Correctly using
apostrophe-"s" or "s"-apostrophe to keep your meaning clear
- When (and why) to use
parentheses
- Understanding when you
need quotation marks and how to use them with other
punctuation
- Punctuation rules that
were made to be broken and when it’s a good idea to break
them
Session
6: Secrets
of Goof-proof Spelling
- A list to keep at hand
from now on: The 100 most-often misspelled words in business
communication
- 5 golden spelling rules
every professional should memorize
- "Occuring" or "occurring"?
The handy rule for adding word endings
- Hear are example of why
you can’t depend on spell-checker to get your spelling write
all the thyme
- Resources to check for the
correct spelling of the newest words in our ever-evolving
language
Session
7: New
Business Usage Standards: R.I.P. to "Dear Gentlemen"
- Guidelines for handling
courtesy titles in business communication
- Fresh, new options for
salutations in business correspondence
- Nonsexist alternatives
guaranteed to help you steer clear of offensive language
- Solutions to gender-based
pronoun problems
- Pet phrases and outdated
words that need to be put out to pasture
Session
8: Proofread
Like a Pro to Catch Embarrassing Errors Before They "Go
Public"
- Are you proofreading or
editing? Why it’s important to know the difference before
you start reading
- Tips for proofreading
quickly without sacrificing accuracy
- Visual tricks that will
help you catch hard-to-find errors such as duplicate words
and omitted letters
- The secret to spotting
your own typos and grammatical errors
- How to proofread numbers
with 100 percent accuracy every time
- A proofreading checklist
that will serve as your "safety net" so you can rest easy,
knowing you’ve caught every error
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Course Summary |
The ability to communicate clearly through your writing has become more important than ever in today's lightning-fast business environment. In fact, hiring managers say they specifically look for people with superior writing skills when they are hiring new employees. |
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Workplace professionals |
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