Business Grammar and Writing 2010

Location:

Yellowknife

Event Type:

Regular

Date:

Friday, April 30, 2010 - 8:30am - 4:30pm

Business Grammar and Writing

Yellowknife, NT, Explorer Hotel

Successful writing takes time and patience. The rules are constantly changing. You will never get a second chance to make a first professional impression once you’ve committed it to paper!

If you have used the incorrect words, terms, abbreviation, structure, punctuation, or spelling in your writing or instructions, your reader will disregard the content or even worse complete the project incorrectly. Write it right—First time.

The First Step

How to start writing
How to use a MindMap
How to structure what you are actually going to write
Verb conjugation
Paragraph rules
How to use transitions to make your writing flow

Grammar Style Guide

What are the rules today
Which styles guide will work for you
Know who you are writing to

Practicing Grammar Correctly

Putting the basics together
Contractions
Subject-verb agreement
Confusing words: Who and whom, alright and all right
Abbreviations, acronyms, and initials
Active vs. passive voice
Misplaced modifiers
Quotation marks Numbers and figures
Capitalization
Apostrophes, Periods, Colons, Semi-colons, Commas, Em and en dashes, Parenthesis, Hyphens
Display lists
Spelling words correctly
British vs. American vs. Canadian
Sorting the a from the an
Suffixes and Prefixes
Pluralization

Writing to get attention — Writing Persuasively — Action-Orientated Closings

Using humour
Assertiveness
The importance of the first and last paragraphs
How to survive triage
Clarity indexing
How to use the RA.I.D.A.R. and W.I.I.F.M.R. techniques

Professional Writing Tips

The 12 most common mistakes in professional writing
How to avoid those clichés and dead words
The correct gender usage
Political correctness
Current formats
Email in the workplace
The art of writing clear instruction
Proofreading and editing

To Register: http://www.ctrcanada.com/workshops/bgw/

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