Improve Your Business Writing with Programs and Services from Write It Well.

Learn about our books, self-study workbooks, and business writing training programs help people write professional business e-mail, letters, memos, reports, proposals, marketing materials, performance evaluations, technical documentation, user and procedures manuals, and other business documents that make sense, get results, and use professional grammar and punctuation.

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Business Writing



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We can deliver this course in our virtual training room or in your offices. Here are some of our on-site offerings:

  • A two-day workshop for mixed audiences
  • A one-day basic business-writing workshop
  • A one-day advanced business-writing workshop

You also have the option to add individual coaching to the one-day workshops. Contact Write It Well to discuss the best training solution for your audience.

One of our most popular courses, our Business Writing workshop is designed for anyone who needs to get a point across clearly and quickly.

In it, you’ll learn practical, immediately useful techniques. You’ll be able to write from the readers’ point of view, organize information clearly and logically, and present a professional image of yourself and your organization.

You’ll master these challenges and more:

  • Thinking about your audience, purpose and main point
  • Including all needed information, and organizing it logically
  • Using lists and other formatting techniques
  • Using concise, active, specific language and plain English that communicates clearly and professionally
  • Avoiding common grammar and punctuation problems

Here’s our three-step training approach:

  1. We assess writing samples and review objectives to customize the curriculum for your organization.
  2. During training, we encourage active participation through discussion and practice.
  3. Participants apply concepts and techniques by evaluating, editing, planning, and drafting job-related documents. The instructor offers one-to-one feedback.

As a two-day  course, this program has been approved for Continuing Education Units (CEUs).

Book: Professional Writing Skills

Facilitator Kit: Business Writing

Testimoninals

“Write It Well’s business writing class was terrific. We covered the basics as well as more sophisticated writing issues; there was something in it for everyone. The instructor was engaging and the exercises were job-relevant so the time moved quickly. I am going to schedule another class soon.”

– Clayton Monahan, Employee Development Leader, Granite Construction

“Write It Well’s program has proven time and time again to be an invaluable component of our corporate training curriculum, as well as a great resource for the hundreds of students here at the Port of Oakland who have used it.”

– Aileen Evans, Organizational Effectiveness Manager, Port of Oakland

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Testimonials

The training was great!

Patriece Paige, Management Analyst
HUD

Very valuable training — look forward to more.

Thank you for a fabulous workshop. I have already implemented many of the suggestions in my own e-mail correspondence, and have since recommended the book to others.

Marie Coppola
International Association of Business Communicators

The webinar was informative and helpful! A valuable tool to improve professionalism at work.

Jeannette Collette
St. Joseph's Hospital & Medical Center

I enjoyed the Effective E-Mail webinar. Each time I send an e-mail, I stop and think. What you said really does work!

Ruby Pence
Cleveland County Healthcare System

Excellent Presentation!

Christy Bedell
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

The Webinar provided strong guidance for effective e-communication and
writing in general.

Jan Kearney-King
HUD

Write It Well transformed a crucial but often overlooked topic [e-mail communication] into a lively, fascinating, and extremely useful presentation. The clarity of e-mail messages exchanged within the office has improved.

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The knowledge of the presenter was excellent.

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Mission Hospital Inc.

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