This course teaches you how to plan and produce complex, multi-page business documents for any professional purpose. You'll work through outlining and formatting techniques for a wide range of document types, including schedules, proposals, project plans, and contracts, building the skills to communicate clearly and effectively no matter the audience.
By the end of the course, you'll have a reliable four-step process for tackling any business document. You'll know how to define your purpose, identify your audience, outline your approach, and apply the right informative or persuasive techniques to get the result you're after.
What You Will Learn
- Tackle complex documents for any professional purpose with clarity and confidence
- Use outlining and formatting techniques suited to each type of business document
- Follow a practical four-step process to create well-structured, polished documents
- Write with your audience in mind and communicate your message with precision every time
Course Outline
Focusing Your Document
1) Determine Your Purpose
2) Determine Your Audience
Communicating to the Audience Effectively
3) Planning the Writing Project
4) Using Informative and Persuasive Techniques
This course is available for 30 days. You can choose when to start your access period. Once you activate, you will have 30 days to complete it (access the course materials, quizzes, projects and videos). You may request one extension of seven (7) days. Other extension requests will be evaluated on a case-by-case basis. Videos are not downloadable.