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Efficient Writing Online Course

100% Online Study

1-on-1 Tutor Support

Any Device, Any Time

Self Paced Study

All writing should be clearly understood by the reader

If you’re dashing off a quick email to your workmates or preparing a complex business report, your writing must clear, concise, and correctly spelt and structured. During this course you will learn the fundamentals of correct and efficient writing.

  • For those who wish to brush up on their writing skills, or acquire the basic skills that they should have but did not develop properly while at school.
  • Build confidence and ability to write better at work, at home, anywhere
  • Learn to write clearly and efficiently
  • Learn to communicate thoughts in the minimum number of words, and without any ambiguity.

Course Aims:

  • Define the nature and scope of writing.
  • Discuss the way written sentences and paragraphs are properly structured.
  • Develop an increased capacity to write clearly.
  • Develop improved conciseness in writing.
  • Develop and improve punctuation skills.
  • Apply basic writing skills more efficiently in a range of situations.

There are 6 Lessons in this course:

1. Introduction

    • Scope of writing -where is writing used?
    • What is effective writing
    • Good writing is direct
    • Good writing is objective
    • Variety is good in writing
    • Understanding human communication
    • The communication process
    • Types of communication (verbal, non verbal, etc)
    • Communication channels
    • Communicating efficiently
    • Writing for a purpose
    • Understand your reader
    • Content

2. Basic Writing Skills

    • Parts of speech
    • Types of nouns -proper, common, collective
    • Plurals
    • Possessive nouns and pronouns
    • Types of verbs: regular, irregular etc.
    • Adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions
    • Common grammatical errors: comma splices, fragmented sentences, dangling modifiers, etc
    • Sentence construction
    • Types of sentence: declarative, interrogative, exclamatory, etc
    • Sentence structure
    • Constructing sentences
    • Combining sentences
    • Expanding basic sentences
    • Adding modifying words, phrases or clauses.
    • Linking words or phrases

3. Clear Wording

    • Introduction
    • Common causes of confusion: homophones, malapropisms, etc
    • Ambiguity
    • Making meanings clear: Illustrative context, glossing, etc
    • Informative language
    • Persuasive language
    • Imaginative language
    • Other types of language: colloquial, formal, informal, etc
    • Simplicity
    • Building a paragraph
    • General guidelines for effective writing

4. Concise Wording

    • Conciseness
    • Circumlocution
    • Condensing your writing
    • Common problems contributing to lack of conciseness
    • Active and passive voice
    • Condensing text: how to Precise

5. Punctuation and Accuracy

    • Punctuation purpose
    • Semi colon, colon, dash, comma
    • Spelling
    • American or English spelling?

6. Planning what you write

    • Business formats
    • Business letters
    • Planning what you write
    • Writing a media release
    • Writing an answer or an essay
    • Academic writing, verbs, quotations
    • Unpack the question
    • Research
    • Referencing

 

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When you reach out, we respond. You’re wondering right now, “Will they take my money and disappear?” When you join, you are part of the family. Need something? Just contact us and we’ll get right back to you. Have questions, concerns, or feedback about your learning? We love talking about learning, and we love talking to our customers, so we can’t wait for you to get in touch.

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First and foremost our courses are 100% online courses BUT they are still very practical!  You will learn many practical skills, do some research, field trips and much more.  

All learning is best done by doing, so our online courses are designed to give you the foundation knowledge you need and to get you out there and doing whatever it is that you love.  

This sets our students up for success. 

    • 100% Online
    • Practical 
    • Certificate issued on completion
    • 1-on-1 tutor support
    • Flexible payment options
    • Self paced study

Getting where you want to go with your studies and/or career, involves much more than just reading or watching a video.  Knowing how to learn, how to research and find out new information, how to judge if the source of information is any good and how to find out what is happening in your industry and creating a network are vitally important!  Our courses will help you do all that.

We have mini self assessment tests so that you can be the judge of how well you understand the material and then a set task where you will undertake some form of practical exercise.  But best of all is the one-on-one expert tutor feedback you get with each task you submit.  

Online study can by difficult but our tutors are there to help you every step of the way.  

 

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Courses on devices

First and foremost our courses are 100% online courses BUT they are still very practical!  You will learn many practical skills, do some research, field trips and much more.  

All learning is best done by doing, so our online courses are designed to give you the foundation knowledge you need and to get you out there and doing whatever it is that you love.  

This sets our students up for success. 

    • 100% Online
    • Practical 
    • Certificate issued on completion
    • 1-on-1 tutor support
    • Flexible payment options
    • Self paced study

Getting where you want to go with your studies and/or career, involves much more than just reading or watching a video.  Knowing how to learn, how to research and find out new information, how to judge if the source of information is any good and how to find out what is happening in your industry and creating a network are vitally important!  Our courses will help you do all that.

We have mini self assessment tests so that you can be the judge of how well you understand the material and then a set task where you will undertake some form of practical exercise.  But best of all is the one-on-one expert tutor feedback you get with each task you submit.  

Online study can by difficult but our tutors are there to help you every step of the way.  

 

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