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Write like a Boss

Original price was: $110.00.Current price is: $93.50.

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In this course, you’ll learn some tricks and techniques to improve your writing, avoid common mistakes, structure your message, and target communication to your audience, and write like a boss!

CPD Credits: 2

Description

Have you ever emailed a coworker and gotten a confused reply? Have you filed a great report only to have your boss complain it was riddled with spelling and punctuation errors? Did a client misunderstand a letter you sent?

If any of these situations sound familiar, you’re not alone. It’s easy to fall into common writing traps like confusing language, grammar mishaps, and poor structure. Anyone can improve their writing—but even the best writers need practice.

In this course, you’ll learn some tricks and techniques to improve your writing, avoid common mistakes, structure your message, and target communication to your audience.

By the end of this course, you will:

  • Be able to identify the purpose of what you are writing early and check yourself as you write and edit your work.
  • Understand the functions of emails, instant messages, reports, and letters to determine which communication medium will serve you best.
  • Understand how to tailor the content, the language, and the tone of your message to your audience by considering their relationship with you, their perspective, and their knowledge on the subject.
  • Identify the benefits of keeping your writing structured through the broad-narrow-broad approach, by laying out your introduction, body paragraphs, and conclusion most effectively.
  • Recognize the most common writing mistakes and explain how to avoid them with the golden rules of grammar, spelling, and punctuation.
  • List the five (5) tried and tested tips on editing and then proofreading your writing, thus improving the overall quality and readability of your work.