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Module One: Getting Started Your business writing can serve as persuasive evidence of your competence, your personality, your management style. Wilma Davidson Writing is a key method of communication for most people, and it’s one that many people struggle with. This workshop will give participants a refresher on basic writing concepts such as spelling, grammar, and punctuation. It will also provide an overview of the most common business documents such as proposals, reports, and agendas. All of this will provide that extra edge in the workplace..

[Audio] Workshop Objectives Common spelling and grammar issues Sentence and paragraph construction Decide the most appropriate format Gain better awareness of common spelling and grammar issues in business writing. Review basic concepts in sentence and paragraph construction. Know the basic structure of agendas, email messages, business letters, business proposals, and business reports. Know tips and techniques to use when deciding the most appropriate format to use for agendas, email messages, business letters, business proposals, and business reports. Know tips and techniques in writing agendas, email messages, business letters, business proposals, and business reports. Gain an overview of Request for Proposals, Projections, Executive Summaries, and Business Cases. Define proofreading and understand techniques in improving proofreading skills. Define peer review and list ways peer review can help improve business writing skills. List guidelines in printing and publishing business writing..

[Audio] Module Two: Working with Words When all other means of communication fail, try words. Anonymous The building blocks of any writing, whether for business or social purposes, are words. Failure to use words properly can affect the over all impact of your prose. In this module we will discuss the spelling of words, grammar issues in writing, and how to prevent both by creating a cheat sheet..

[Audio] Spelling Affect against Effect International acceptable spelling variations Friendly rules on spelling Pronounce words properly The use of correctly spelled words is important in all business writing because you are presenting a professional document. A misspelled word can reflect negatively on your image. It may also result in confusion in meaning. Here are some tips to improve spelling issues when writing: Familiarize yourself with commonly misused words, particularly sets of words often mistaken for each other. Example: Affect against Effect Affect is to influence or change. (Our income has been affected by the global recession.) Effect is the impression, result. It can also mean ‘to cause’. (The global recession has a dramatic effect on our income.) This problem also happens with pronouns or pronoun linking verb contractions which sound alike. Examples: who’s against whose, their against they’re and your against you’re. Make sure you pronounce words properly. Colloquial pronunciations can cause people to omit certain letters in writing. Example: writing ‘diffrence’ instead of ‘difference’ because one pronounces this word with a silent first e Note some friendly rules on spelling. Example: i before e, except after c (for example receive, belief) If you’re writing for an international audience, note that there are acceptable spelling variations in the different kinds of English. For example, American and British English tend to have many differences in the spelling of the same words. Notable are the use of -ou instead of –o, as in colour against color; -re instead of –er, as in centre against center; -ise instead of –ize, as in realise against realize. Lastly, use spelling resources! These days, spell checking is as easy as running a spell check command on your word processing software. If you’re still uncertain after an electronic spell check, consult a dictionary. NotE: Discussions on spelling liberties people take when sending emails would be discuss in a later module..

[Audio] Grammar Singular subjects go with singular verbs, and plural subjects go with plural verbs Verb tenses: Present, Past, Future, Perfect, Past Perfect , and Future Perfect Grammar details rules of language syntax. Like spelling issues, grammar violations in a business document can reflect negatively on a professional or a company. Care should be given that all business documents are grammatically correct. Here are two grammar issues most business writers have trouble with. NotE: All grammatical rules discussed here have exceptions and complex forms. Subject verb agreement: Singular subjects go with singular verbs, and plural subjects go with plural verbs. The singular form of most subjects contains the suffix –s or –es. The opposite is true for verbs; it’s the singular verbs that end with –s. Note though that some subjects have unusual plural forms (for example medium media, man men, et cetera) Verb tenses: Modern English has six tenses, each of which has a corresponding continuous tense. The first three: present, past and future are less problematic. The other three tenses, perfect, past perfect, and future perfect, are formed with the helping verbs have, has, and had. Perfect tense is used to express an event that happened in the past, but still has an effect on the present. Example: Mr Michael Johnson has managed this company for the past 5 years. Past perfect tense is used to express an event that took place before another action, also in the past. Example: Mr Myers had been sitting on a meeting when the client called. Future perfect tense is used to express an event that will have taken place at some time in the future. Example: I will have finished by 10pm. In business writing, there are standard tenses used depending on the type of document you are writing. Business cases (to be discussed in a later module) may be written in past or future tense depending on whether the purpose is to discuss how a project was executed, or propose how it would be executed. Verb tenses can also vary within the same business document. The Organization Overview section of a proposal may be written in perfect tense, while the Financial Projection Section written in present tense..