Essential Writing Skills for the Workplace

Course details

Writing as a part of everyday communication has become an essential skill for everyone in the modern workplace. Regularly, we are expected to 'put it in black and white'. The modern use of email as a prime communication tool adds on to the need to master writing skills to get the right message across.

This comprehensive two-day course is designed to help you deal with common difficulties in written communication such as organising ideas into paragraphs, using the right style and the right tone, linking information in a business document and using different formatting for different business correspondences.

Master the art of writing to 'think what you write and write what you think'. Getting things done quickly often depends on how well we communicate!

How Will You Benefit?

After the workshop, you will be able to:

• plan the correspondence in a reader-centric approach
• write in a professional way to convey meaning accurately
• identify and correct common grammatical and word usage errors
• format writing for different business correspondences

What You Will Learn

7Cs of Writing Skills

Sentence Structures for Foundation

Reader-centric Approach for Planning

• purpose
• audience
• content

Paragraphs for Organisation and Coherence

Style for the Right Tone

• active and passive voices
• old-fashioned language 
• jargon and acronyms
• misused words

Grammar for Accuracy

• verbs and tenses
• nouns and pronouns
• subject-verb agreement
• prepositions
• punctuation