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Business and report writing online training course

Choose from four levels of e-learning business writing courses packages

These course packages are aimed at anyone who needs to write business or technical documents, emails and reports.

Business Writing - Essentials ($165 US)  Includes Courses 1-4

Course 1: Get to the Point! Course 2: Organize the Details
  • Focusing your message
  • Writing to persuade
  • Writing to inform
  • Getting started
  • Identifying the key points
  • Understanding your audience
  • Using the Pyramid Method to organize information
  • Asking yourself questions about your information
  • Deciding what to include or leave out of your document
  • Writing a summary
  • Closing confidently
Course 3: Effective E-mail Techniques Course 4: Sharpen Your Language Skills
  • Applying the Pyramid Method learned in Courses 1 and 2 to short and long e-mail messages
  • Writing concise, yet complete e-mail messages
  • Proofreading messages on screen and on paper
  • Formatting messages for various systems
  • Focusing your e-mail to specific readers
  • Dealing with forwarded message "trains"
  • Using the active voice
  • Removing wordy expressions
  • Injecting a personal tone
  • Ensuring sentence parts are parallel
  • Improving punctuation
  • Forming abbreviations and inserting numbers in narrative

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Writing Business Letters and Email - Extending Your Skills ($205 US) Includes Courses 1-5

Courses as for Business Writing - Essentials package plus the following:

Course 5: Business Letters and Memos
  • Applying the Pyramid Method learned in Courses 1 and 2 to informative and persuasive letters and memos
  • Making an effective start
  • Conveying information clearly and precisely
  • Confirming an agreement or an arrangement
  • Writing confident complaints and claims
  • Responding to complaints and requests
  • Writing convincing requests for approval
  • Creating a quality appearance

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Writing Business and Technical Letters and Reports - ($265 US) Includes Courses 1-7

Courses as in Business Writing - Essentials and Business Writing - Extending Your Skills packages plus the following:

Course 6: Short Reports Course 7: Formal Reports
  • Incident reports
  • Field assignment and travel reports
  • Inspections
  • Progress and status reports
  • Project completion reports
  • Problem/recommendation reports
  • Investigations
  • Evaluations
  • Analytical and feasibility studies
  • Comparative analyses and justifications
  • Writing executive summaries

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Comprehensive Business and Technical Writing ($285 US) - The FULL 8 course package

Courses as in Writing Business and Technical Letters and Reports packages plus the following:

Course 8: Business and Technical Proposals
  • Executive compre summaries to accompany a proposal
  • Comparisons of ideas, products, or solutions
  • Using language to convey a confident, knowledgeable image
  • Designing proposals for reader comprehension

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Exercises and examples will help reinforce the instruction

Exercises and examples will help reinforce the instruction. In courses 5 and 6 you will have the opportunity to send two assignments to an instructor for feedback. Pause points throughout the courses allow you to stop the course and return to the same point.

Prerequisites

There are no prerequisites.

Course duration

Approximate time to complete
Course 1: Get to the Point! 1 - 1 1/2 hours
Course 2: Organize the Details 1 1/2 - 2 hours

Course 3: Effective E-mail Techniques

1 - 2 hours
Course 4: Sharpen Your Language Skills 4 - 5 hours, but you don't have to do it all at once. It is divided into seven parts, which you can return to even after you have started another Course. This allows you to break up the grammar lessons.
Course 5: Business letters and memos 3 1/2 - 5 hours
Course 6: Short Reports 2 1/2 - 5 hours
Course 7: Formal Reports 2 1/2 - 3 1/2 hours
Course 8: Business and Technical Proposals 3 - 4 1/2 hours

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100% guaranteeOur online courses, DVDs and reports come with a 30-day money back satisfaction guarantee.

You'll get a full refund if you are not 100% happy.

Cost of the packages

  • Business Writing - Essentials: $165
  • Business Writing - Extending Your Skills: $205
  • Writing Business and Technical Letters and Reports: $265
  • Business Writing - Full Business Package: $285

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