Effective Business Writing & Pronunciations I

Course details

This comprehensive workshop builds your foundation in grammar and effective writing from a business perspective. You will learn to write all types of documents more effectively and to project a business image for your work through your writing.

Through discussions, exercises and hands-on activities, you will learn how to plan, write and edit your reports before sending them to your boss/es. You will write case studies and receive feedback from ACES Business English Coach on your strengths and areas to improve on.

What You Will Gain

Participants will achieve the following outcomes:

• Understand the basics of business writing and grammar
• Write from your business readers’ perspectives
• Write with clarity and style, projecting a professional image about your work
• Able to edit own writings efficiently and quickly

Course Outline

Grammar for the Educated

• Learn an effective technique to avoid common basic grammatical errors!

Email Writing Techniques

• Professional etiquette
• Do’s and Don’ts
• Situations where email are needed; not needed
• Common pitfalls in email writing to avoid
• Informative and positive subject title
• Effective format to write email so that you can generate prompt action

Choose your Tone in your Writing

• Giving bad news
• Writing letter of apologies

Less is More

• How to cut out redundancies
• Common mistakes made in long sentences

Editing own documents

• How to do it efficiently and quickly before sending

• Common Mistakes in Local Pronunciations
• What’s Next – Action Plan

Who Should Attend

ANYONE who uses emails, draft letters, proposals & other materials in their work.

• Marketing / PR Professionals
• Human Resource Professionals
• Secretaries / Personal Assistants
• Business / Sales Professionals
• Corporate Communication Professionals
• Technical Professionals