Written Communication
- 11 Courses | 3h 56m 20s
- 11 Books | 22h 20m
- 8 Audiobooks | 21h 40m 37s
Effective written communication is essential in the modern workplace. Learn practical tips to improve your writing skills. Writing can be intimidating, but it doesn't have to be. Brush up on the basics and learn to improve your communication skills easily.
COURSES INCLUDED
Writing with a Professional Mindset
In an era where written communication is pervasive, a professional mindset can set you apart and make you a valued asset in your organization. Writing professionally, clearly, lucidly, and concisely will help you align your written communication with the goals of your organization and demonstrate your competence and commitment to clear and effective communication. In this course, you'll learn the essential aspects of effective professional communication and strategies to craft effective and professional written communication. You'll also learn how various channels of communication can be optimized for impactful professional writing, and explore best practices for improving your professional writing skills.
6 videos |
28m
Assessment
Badge
PMI PDU
Audience and Purpose in Business Writing
Have you ever read a piece of business writing and found the message unclear? Writing well, like other communication skills, can be cultivated and improved. To write an effective business message, you need to first know and understand your audience and your purpose for choosing written communication to convey it. In this course, you'll discover how improving your written communication aids in creating messages that convey the appropriate tone for different readers throughout the organizational hierarchy. You'll also explore how better writing can effectively fulfil its three most common purposes: to inform, respond, or persuade.
7 videos |
18m
Assessment
Badge
PMI PDU
Clarity and Conciseness in Business Writing
Being clear and concise in business writing isn't always easy. But writing well is essential in the workplace if you want what you write to be read, understood, and acted upon. In this course, you'll learn how improving your communication skills through better writing techniques can make your message clear and comprehensible. You'll learn how your written communication is more effective when you understand the importance of using familiar, concrete, and specific language. You'll also explore tips for being more concise in your writing and best practices for organizing content.
7 videos |
20m
Assessment
Badge
PMI PDU
Editing and Proofreading Business Documents
All of us can think of a piece of business writing that's lacking a key point or contains an embarrassing typo or spelling error. From that point on, it becomes difficult to take it seriously, whatever it's topic or content. In business, solid, professional written communication is essential to the clarity and credibility of your message. In this course, you'll learn how improving your communication skills through better writing will help you produce more focused, polished, and effective business documents. It offers guidance on how to edit and proofread effectively, covering key areas, such as tone, structure, clarity, and accuracy, as well as common grammar, punctuation, and spelling mistakes to watch out for.
8 videos |
22m
Assessment
Badge
PMI PDU
Using the Parts of Speech
Effective business writing is one of the most important communication skills in the workplace today. By writing well, using clear sentences and correct grammar, you can ensure your message is communicated to and understood by your intended audience. Unfortunately, the opposite is also true - poorly structured sentences can not only cause confusion, but may also damage your reputation. In this course, you'll learn about the fundamental elements for better writing - the parts of speech. These are the building blocks of sentences, so learning about them can help you skillfully combine words into meaningful sentences. This course describes the eight parts of speech and shows how to use them effectively and correctly.
7 videos |
20m
Assessment
Badge
Getting the Details Right: Spelling Basics
Spelling errors are all too common, and are one of the main culprits behind poor business writing. A wrong letter here, an extra letter there, and your reader may lose confidence in your communication skills and overall competence as a professional. That's why writing well doesn't just mean writing persuasively - it also means knowing the rules, as well as the exceptions, of spelling. In this course, you'll learn how to spell words with prefixes and suffixes, and how to form the plural and possessive forms of words. You'll also learn general rules on how to spell correctly, as well as some handy tips for better writing in general.
7 videos |
20m
Assessment
Badge
Abbreviating, Capitalizing, and Using Numbers
Writing well is not just about constructing logical sentences. It also involves the correct use of abbreviations, capital letters, and numbers in your business writing. Knowing how to use them consistently is a strong asset to have as part of your communication skills. In this course, you'll learn the basic rules of capital letters, abbreviations, and numbers. You'll learn how to correctly abbreviate titles, names, locations, and countries, as well as how to capitalize direct quotes, titles, names of organizations, and product names, among other elements. In addition, you'll explore other key elements for better writing - the forms and uses of numbers with dates and time, money, fractions, and symbols.
8 videos |
23m
Assessment
Badge
Using Punctuation Marks
Punctuation is the collection of marks used to separate sentences and their parts. Although appropriate punctuation is an undervalued part of your communication skills, it can make your business writing clear and less likely to be misinterpreted. In this course, you'll learn the standard rules and guidelines for using punctuation marks, including the correct use of periods, question marks, and exclamation points. You'll learn a crucial aspect of better writing that often causes much confusion - how to correctly use commas. The course includes rules for better writing such how to use different connecting and separating marks, like colons, semicolons, dashes, and hyphens. In addition, it shows how to properly use apostrophes, parentheses, brackets, and quotation marks.
7 videos |
20m
Assessment
Badge
Creating Well-constructed Sentences
Syntax is the grammatical term for arranging words to create logical phrases, clauses, and sentences. Well-constructed sentences express an idea by using the parts of speech in a logical order, and are essential for effective business writing. A misplaced modifier might get a chuckle out of the reader, but it reflects poorly on your communication skills. In this course, you'll learn some of the fundamentals for better writing - the parts of a sentence, such as the subject and predicate, as well as phrases and clauses. You'll examine subject-verb agreement, as well as agreement between pronouns and their antecedents. You'll also discover some techniques for writing well, such as how to identify and fix common types of sentence errors.
8 videos |
24m
Assessment
Badge
Troublesome Words and Phrases: Usage Mistakes in Writing
The many nuances and conventions in the English language make it diverse and interesting; however, when it comes to writing well, they can also cause some difficulties. For better writing skills, you must familiarize yourself with some of the most common errors of usage. In this course, you'll learn how to use commonly confused words correctly, including word pairs that sound alike and those that have related meanings. You'll explore often misused verbs - for example, affect and effect or apprise and appraise - that can impede professional business writing. You'll also learn some idiomatic combinations of verbs and prepositions that can be confusing and will put your communication skills to the test.
6 videos |
19m
Assessment
Badge
Improving Your Technical Writing Skills
For many professionals in the pharmaceutical, technology, finance, and similar industries, technical writing skills are an important part of day-to-day communication. Writing well in these industries isn't just a matter of writing grammatically correct sentences; it also involves producing technical documents that are suited to the requirements, comprehension level, and background of their readers. In this course, you'll learn techniques for better writing that will help you avoid common pitfalls and structure your business writing more effectively. You'll find out how to tailor your written communication to the specific requirements of different types of technical material - so that whether you want to persuade or to instruct, you'll be able to achieve your writing goals.
7 videos |
18m
Assessment
Badge
PMI PDU
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BOOK SUMMARY
10 Steps To Successful Business Writing10 Steps to Successful Business Writing provides you with clear and easy-to-follow tools to bolster your business writing skills. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
9m
By Jack E. Appleman
BOOK SUMMARY
Better Sentence Writing in 30 Minutes a DayIn Better Sentence Writing in 30 Minutes a Day, author Dianna Campbell equips readers to write with correct grammar and punctuation, as well as variety and precision. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
12m
By Dianna Campbell
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Outstanding Business EnglishProviding guidance to non-native English speakers on how to communicate clearly and concisely, this book uses real-life international business scenarios to help develop your skills and provide you with some answers that even your boss might not know.
1h 54m
By Fiona Talbot
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Fundamentals of Business WritingThrough building and evaluating your own business letter, this groundbreaking self-study guide will help you write with clarity and style, so your ideas come across concisely and cohesively.
2h 24m
By Joseph C. Mancuso, Yvonne V. Chabrier
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Professional Writing Skills: Five Simple Steps to Write Anything to AnyonePresenting a process to plan your message, and review techniques to keep your writing clear and concise, this workbook shows you how to save writing time and get results with each document that you send out for your job.
1h 34m
By Natasha Terk
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The AMA Handbook of Business Writing: The Ultimate Guide to Style, Grammar, Punctuation, Usage, Construction, and FormattingTaking the guesswork out of more than 50 commonly used business documents, this helpful book covers key points of grammar, style and spelling, and presents strategies for writing more clearly, avoiding bias, eliminating cliches, and much more.
4h 47m
By Jennifer Wauson, Kevin Wilson
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Write Better Right Now: The Reluctant Writer's Guide to Confident Communication and Self-Assured StyleWith straightforward guidance, this step-by-step manual gives you the solid techniques you need to get the task done and is the springboard to get you ahead in any job, passion project, or situation that requires writing skills.
3h 15m
By Mary-Kate Mackey
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Professional Writing Skills: A Write It Well GuideProviding a step-by-step process for planning business letters, memos, e-mail, and other business documents, this handy guide offers busy professionals the tools they need to get their message across clearly, concisely, and professionally.
1h 56m
By Natasha Terk
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How to Write Effective Business English: Excel at E-Mail, Social Media and All Your Professional CommunicationsOffering case studies to illustrate how communication contexts can vary in different organizations, this book contains practical worksheets and exercises, and covers e-communications, including instant messaging, and effective social media writing.
1h 56m
By Fiona Talbot
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Executive Writing Skills for Managers: Master Word Power to Lead your Teams, Make Strategic Links and Develop RelationshipsFocusing on writing as a key business tool, this helpful, practical guide deals with the English writing skills needed to keep one's career rising, whether you are a non-native English speaker who needs reassurance, or an executive who lacks confidence in your writing abilities.
1h 42m
By Fiona Talbot
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How to Write Effective Business English: Your Guide to Excellent Professional Communication, Fourth EditionExpress yourself clearly, confidently and professionally with this practical guide to written business English and global business English, for native and non-native speakers alike.c
2h 31m
By Fiona Talbot
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AUDIOBOOKS INCLUDED
AUDIOBOOK SUMMARY
How to Write Effective Business English: Excel at E-Mail, Social Media and All Your Professional CommunicationsHow to Write Effective Business English provides a breakdown of potential pitfalls in today's different forms of written communication and outlines the best ways to avoid them. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
20m 28s
By Fiona Talbot
AUDIOBOOK SUMMARY
10 Steps To Successful Business Writing10 Steps to Successful Business Writing provides you with clear and easy-to-follow tools to bolster your business writing skills. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
20m 9s
By Jack E. Appleman
AUDIOBOOK SUMMARY
Better Sentence Writing in 30 Minutes a DayIn Better Sentence Writing in 30 Minutes a Day, author Dianna Campbell equips readers to write with correct grammar and punctuation, as well as variety and precision. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
23m 29s
By Dianna Campbell
AUDIOBOOK SUMMARY
Essential Grammar: A Write It Well GuideEssential Grammar outlines the principal rules of grammar and punctuation, and uses various examples to demonstrate their application. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
24m 55s
By Natasha Terk
Audiobook
Draft No. 4: On the Writing ProcessThis audio edition offers a definitive guide to the crucial decisions regarding structure, diction, and tone that shape nonfiction pieces. Read by the author.
6h 49m 11s
By John McPhee
Audiobook
Professional Writing Skills: A Write It Well GuideThis audio edition offers busy professionals the tools they need to get their message across clearly, concisely, and professionally.
4h 32m 54s
By Natasha Terk
Audiobook
Essential Grammar: A Write It Well Guide, 3rd Revised EditionThis audio edition provides just what you need to write correctly and professionally in today's workplace.
6h 24m 24s
By Natasha Terk
Audiobook
Effective Email: Concise, Clear Writing to Advance Your Business NeedsThis audio edition will help you write concise, clear emails that advance your business needs.
2h 25m 7s
By Natasha Terk
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SKILL BENCHMARKS INCLUDED
Written Communication
Effective written communication is essential in the modern workplace. Learn practical tips to improve your writing skills. This benchmark evaluates your understanding of this topic. Being aware of potential knowledge gaps allows you to better understand your current competency and areas for improvement, so you can find suitable content and curate your own learning path. The courses recommended at the end of this benchmark can help you fill potential gaps in your knowledge.
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