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Business writing skills for function and purpose
Expert communicators say that the importance of clear, concise communication in business cannot be over-emphasised. But, don’t take anyone’s word for it, test things for yourself. Take a piece of communication that you have written and assess its effectiveness in terms of its composition by asking yourself whether it is written with accuracy and clarity, is concise and most importantly, whether it conveys the intended message. You will notice that business writing is both an art and a science where the evidence speaks for itself.
Achieving excellence in business writing means that using appropriate grammar conventions, you will, among other things, learn how to check for accuracy and recognize errors, identify the target audience and draft and edit a technical text and present it in different ways using plain language.
Get writing the right way when you enrol now on BOTI’s Business writing skills for function and purpose course. BOTI offers business communication courses, business writing courses and communication classes. BOTI offers business training programmes across South Africa.
Course duration
2 days
Make yourself clear when you learn how to:
- Organise and structure a text appropriately for a business function.
- Idenfify and collect information needed to write a text specific to a particular function.
- Use textual features and conventions specific to business texts for effective writing.
- Present a written text for a particular function in a business environment.
- Compose a text using plain language for a specific function.
- Identify the target audience.
- Write with the target audience in mind.
- Draft and edit a technical text.
Get writing the right way when you enrol now on BOTI’s Business writing skills for function and purpose course. BOTI offers business communication courses, business writing courses and communication classes. BOTI offers business training programmes across South Africa.
Benefits of attending: Business writing skills for function and purpose course
Upon successful completion of this course you will have acquired a better command of the importance of acquiring good business writing skills including:
- Applying correct use of grammar, punctuation and spelling to a business text.
- Understanding the basic terminology used in a typical business environment.
- Applying the correct use of business terminology to specific communication pieces.
- How to write for the target audience.
- How to ensure that the communication style is appropriate for the target audience taking care not to use inappropriate or offensive language and terminology.
- How to know what to write and what not to write.
- How to present the same information in different ways.
- Checking the information to ensure factual accuracy.
- How to appropriately structure information to ensure a logical flow throughout the text.
- How to apply correct use of message tone.
- How to avoid the use of inappropriate technical terms and jargon.
- How to apply the conventions of plain language to enhance readability.
- How to proof read the text to ensure correctness.
- How to apply correct use of layout and formatting techniques to enhance readability.
- Applying industry and legislative requirements to texts as appropriate.
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Get writing the right way when you enrol now on BOTI’s Business writing skills for function and purpose course. BOTI offers business communication courses, business writing courses and communication classes. BOTI offers business training programmes across South Africa.
Who is this course suitable for?
This course is aimed at those individuals who are seeking to improve their business communication skills.
This Unit Standard course is aligned to Unit Standard 12153: Use the writing process to compose texts required in the business environment
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Jonathan Baloyi – Dariel Solutions
‘I learnt how to differentiate between good and bad emails and how to write professional emails. Learning about the structure of the email really went well for me and the words appropriate for an email. The best thing about this course was getting to know that I have been writing bad emails without realizing that I was wrong.’
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