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Business Writing and Grammar for Professionals: Explicit Business Writing Best Practices
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| Venue: | FIU in Downtown Brickell 1101 Brickell Avenue, Suite S-226 Miami, FL 33131 |
This two-day workshop lasts for four hours each day and will help participants produce more professional and effective documents that demonstrate improved clarity and coherence. Participants will learn how to recognize and avoid common sentence-level mistakes and how to organize their writing to achieve improved clarity and coherence. They will also learn how to approach writing as a multi-step process that includes planning, revising, and proofreading, and how to adhere to the writing conventions for professional documents, including Emails, memos, and letters.
Participants will also learn to identify their recurrent errors and how to use textbook and online resources to support their revision efforts. The workshop also focuses on the importance of acknowledging the intended audience for a document and how that helps shape the document. The workshop will help participants produce more professional documents that reflect accepted professional practices. 
This is a hands-on interactive workshop in which participants will complete writing exercises, received feedback from the instructor, and offer peer comments on each other’s writing.
Day One: Sentence-level Errors - The first day will focus on identifying and correcting the most common and disruptive sentence-level writing errors.
By the end of this session, participants will be able to do the following:
- Recognize some of the most common and disruptive sentence-level writing errors, including issues with subject-verb agreement, vague pronoun usage, sentence fragments, and frequently misspelled words
- Avoid and correct errors with support from writing resources
- Identify and revise ideas for improved clarity and coherence
Day Two: Business Documents - Participants will learn techniques for producing organized and effective business documents, including Emails, memos, and letters. The second day will include guidance on how to plan writing projects, organize information within a document, identify the audience, and follow appropriate stylistic protocol based on the type of document.
By the end of this session, participants will be able to do the following:
- Identify the purpose of a writing project as well as the audience/Plan a writing project
- Understand the expected writing conventions for various business documents, including Emails, memos and letters
Requires Textbook: The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation: An Easy-to-Use Guide with Clear Rules, Real-World Examples, and Reproducible Quizzes 11th edition by Jane Straus (Author), Lester Kaufman (Author), Tom Stern (Author)
Each participant is asked to write and print a word processed document in response to the following prompt and bring it to the workshop: Describe the types of writing you most enjoy and what you would like to see change about your writing if you could.
