Each facilitator license includes 1 participant seat. After purchase, you can add more seats by going to “My Library.”
Effective workplace writing communicates ideas to colleagues and clients. This course teaches proven strategies for explaining even complex topics. Participants discover how to persuade the most resistant readers, getting them to take positive action. This course also helps participants avoid embarrassing errors.
You can provide as much or as little oversight as you wish. Track participants' scores on pre- and post-assessments, review their quizzes and activities, or drill down to individual responses. You can also brand this course with your own title, organization name, and logo, which appear on participant materials and the final certification for 1.0 CEU.
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Course Objectives
Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to do the following:
- Use the seven traits of writing to evaluate and improve writing
- Use the writing process: plan, draft, revise, edit
- Analyze the purpose, reader, and context of each writing situation
- Write effective explanations and instructions
- State a clear main point and use levels of detail to support it
- Use transitions to organize details in an effective pattern
- Employ lists and headings to make explanations clear
- State a clear position and build an argument to support it
- Make appropriate appeals to convince readers
- Reach even resistant readers by answering objections
- Use the AIDA organizational pattern to persuade
- Ensure pronoun-antecedent and subject-verb agreement
- Recognize and fix sentence errors such as fragments and dangling modifiers
- Write effectively for supervisors
- Use revising and editing checklists to strengthen and polish writing
- Understand how to use the Write for Business Guide in their workplaces
Table of Contents
- Pre-Assessment
- Module 1: Understanding Results-Oriented Writing
- Module 2: Explaining
- Module 3: Persuading
- Module 4: Avoiding Errors
- Module 5: Writing for Results at Work
- Post-Assessment
Related Courses
This course is one of five that progress from foundational skills to high-level writing. Check out all of these courses from Write for Business: