Customised Training
Plain English Business Writing
Discover how to get your message across in a clear and concise way. Learn the essentials of presenting your ideas with precision and impact.
Whether you are writing an email, letter or report, utilise simple principles to produce easily understood writing for the reader.
In this course you will learn how to save time by controlling writer's block and dramatically reduce the time you spend rewriting and retyping.
Learn how to project a more competent personal and corporate image through improving your effectiveness as a writer.
Who will benefit:
This course will be customised to suit your individual specific needs.
Especially suitable for any group or team in small and medium size business, corporations, local government, state government and federal government agencies. This course is a must for business communication and personal effectiveness.
Topics covered will include how to:
- identify Plain English and its benefits
- recognise the reasons for frequent use of heavy writing styles
- separate what you write from how you write
- overcome writer's block (procrastination)
- identify the seven steps of Plain English
- defining your purpose
- knowing your audience
- thinking your message through
- organising your ideas
- writing clearly and correctly
- presenting professionally
- measuring and proofing your document
- understand the four principles of organised business writing
- the inverted pyramid
- the 5W's of journalism
- formal report formats
- sensitive content formats
- identify why clarity is more important than brevity
- choose words well (using precise and familiar words, avoiding tautologies and noun gerunds!)
- avoid the most common grammatical errors
- build effective sentences (length and passive verbs)
- measure the clarity of your writing using Fog Indices and how to read the indices generated by your word processor
- present your writing professionally (correct formalities, basic rules of white space and typography)
Duration: This course is available in two 6 hour or three 4 hour formats.
Telephone: +61 (08) 9361 0244
Facsimile: +61 (08) 9361 6784
Street Address: Suite 18b (lower level) 328 Albany Highway (cnr. Harper Street) Victoria Park WA 6100
Email: info@phoneforward.com.au
ABN: 95 051 715 506