Business Writing Training

We understand that being able to write in a clear and professional style is important to your business. That is why we have developed the Business Writing Institute and the Effective Business Writing seminar. This practice-driven business writing workshop will significantly improve your ability to write in English, so that your readers will receive a clear, concise, effective message. Most professionals spend at least 15-20% of their time writing for business; emails, memos, business letters, reports and other business correspondence. Our customized approach guarantees an improvement in business communication skills that will increase your productivity, success and job satisfaction.

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Benefits of business writing training classes:

• learn how to write a business letter
• discover the skills of writing a business letter
• learn to create clear business correspondence
• understand the difference of writing for business
• improve overall business communication

Business Writing Training: Written Communication & Why Business Writing Rules Still Matter

While it may be frustrating to follow business writing rules, there is at least one good reason why you should...

I saw a newspaper article the other day that raised the issue of writing styles among generations. It reported that younger generations wanted more relaxed rules for writing, and "...what was wrong with that?"

It's an appealing argument on several levels. After all, isn't it more important that we're free to express ourselves, rather than chain ourselves to conventions that may be outdated? And, why should those rules, some of them created hundreds of years ago, enslave us, so to speak?

While the argument has its appeals, it also has a fatal flaw. And that flaw is this: We should write for others, and not ourselves. In other words, the point of writing is to communicate with another person, and so what we write and how we write it should address their needs, not our own.

Now, that's a fairly straightforward idea in publications where you pay to read the content, and in love letters, too, I suppose. But, the idea also holds in other circumstances. As I've written in my book A Manager's Guide to Newsletters: Communicating for Results, all communication has a strategic component. That is, we want something from our communication, even in the most mundane of circumstances.

To get back to the issue I raised at the beginning of this article, we should obey the grammatical rules or business writing rules because they help others read and understand what we've written.

Even a rule as minor as avoiding prepositions at the ends of sentences helps others understand what we've written, and therefore has value. Would others still understand me if I ended a sentence with a preposition? Probably, but it may reduce the impact of my message.

And since getting as much response as possible is the usual goal of business writers, that's an excellent argument for following business writing rules.

Source: Robert F. Abbott link

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