Mary Beth Hazeldine/Advanced Writing Skills

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Advanced Writing Skills

Description
As a writer you want your readers to be sincerely interested and engaged in your writing.  If your message has been designed and executed effectively, you can capture your audience's full attention.

Objectives
After you complete this course, you will be able to make your writing clear, complete, concise, and correct, improve sentence construction and paragraph development, deal with specific business requests, create effective business cases, proposals, and reports, and thoroughly document sources that you use in your writing.

Contents

Welcome

Welcome

Session One: Course Overview

Learning Objectives
Pre-Assignment
Pre-Course Assessment
Pre-course Assessment.docx

Section Two: The Cs of Writing

Writing Clearly
Familiar Words
Precise Words
Concrete Nouns
Jargon, Part One
Jargon, Part Two
Writing Concisely
Making Connections
Writing Correctly
Style
Facts, Part One
Facts, Part Two
Facts, Part Three
Choosing Your Sources

Session Three: Writing Mechanics

Building Paragraphs: Emphasis, Part One
Building Paragraphs: Emphasis, Part Two
Building Paragraphs: Sentence Unity
Building Paragraphs: Sentence Structure, Part One
Building Paragraphs: Sentence Structure, Part Two
Building Paragraphs: Paragraph Size
Proper Paragraphs
More on Paragraphs
Making Connections

Session Four: Dealing with Specific Requests

Types of Letters
Keeping it Real

Session Five: Online Business Communications

Blogging for Business, Part One
Blogging for Business, Part Two
Guidelines
Making Connections
Connecting Through Social Media, Part One
Connecting Through Social Media, Part Two
Documentation, Part One
Documentation, Part Two

Session Six: Editing Techniques

Pre-Assignment Review

Personal Action Plan

Starting Point
Where I Want to Go
How I Will Get There

Next Steps

Course Summary
Recommended Reading List
Post-Course Assessment
Post-Course Assesment.docx
Congratulations!