Essential Techniques to be a Professional Writer
Improve your writing skills for business or professional settings. Learn grammar, style, tone, and techniques for technical writing. Take this course now!
What you’ll learn
- Write clearly and understandably
- Grab a reader’s attention
- Answer the 9 important questions of writing
- Compose a good business letter
- Develop a personal writing style
- Create good paragraph structure
- Deliver criticism that isn’t taken the wrong way
- Write concise and efficient prose
- Identify and remove redundancies
- Identify and remove clichés
- Set a positive writing tone
- Remove excess wordiness
- Eliminate confusion
- Use punctuation correctly
- Take advantage of bad news
- Adopt techniques for technical writing
- Use handy software tools
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Do you want the
skills to make your living as a professional writer? Or do you need to improve
your writing skills for the job you already have? Maybe you want to know how to
write a book, write articles and blog posts, want writing tips, or you do computer
training or web design. Whether you do online writing, proposal writing, grant
writing, create marketing ideas or just general business correspondence, your
writing skills are important and there are many techniques you should know.
This course takes
you through the processes, grammar, business sense, compositions, stylistic
choices and software skills you need to be successful. We focus on business
writing, and this course has special instruction for technical writing, but if
you want to do creative writing — like write a short story or write a book —
much of what’s in here will apply to you, too. You will get straightforward
explanations and exercises for rewriting bad prose into good.
Contents
and Overview
This course has over
80 lectures and 1.5 hours of content. It’s designed for you, regardless of your
experience level, to develop skills in these areas:
- Planning a project
- Using grammar
correctly - Developing a writing
style - Creating rhythm
- Balancing short and
long sentence length and paragraph length - Speaking with the
appropriate tone for the situation - Being conversational
without being colloquial - Expressing criticism
the right way - Eliminating clichés,
unnecessary words and redundancies - Balancing new words
and obsolete ones - Recognizing
differences between commonly confused words - Developing
techniques for technical writing - Learning useful
tools of the writing trade
Who this course is for:
- Take this course if you want to write in a business or professional setting or want to write any non-fiction. Especially take this course if people find it hard to understand what you write or if you find it difficult to express your ideas clearly.
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