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Business Communication Skills: Business Writing & Grammar

Professional communication skills: Business writing, English grammar, business English, email, and presentations skills

Business grammar and business English
Make your written communication more professional
Professional email communication skills
Make all your professional writing more clear and with perfect grammar and word choice
Writing a business letter
Conflict resolution skills
Meeting communication skills
Report writing skills
Presentation skills and creating storytelling presentations
Business proposal writing
Learn proofreading skills to catch errors quickly
Effective ways to learn English vocabulary
Advanced English writing and sophisticated word choice

Course Content

Introduction and warm welcome to this business writing and communications course

Welcome and what to expect from this business English and communication course
How to get more help, make the course more engaging, and network with students

STEP 1: Basic grammar for business writing

How to take the course PLUS self-assessment test for English grammar
Introducing basic building blocks of English grammar
Conjunctions – these are underrated, but important parts of English grammar
Formulas for correctly conjugating and punctuating complex sentences
Sentence clause exercise: hands on practice to improve your communication skills
Sentence clause exercise answers
Fixing run-on sentences and dealing with complex grammar issues
Exercise for testing run-on sentences in English grammar
Run-on sentence exercise answers
Example of fixing run-on sentences with simple and clear sentences
COMMAS: 10 comma rules in English grammar and writing
Comma exercise to practice your English grammar and written communication skills
Comma exercise answer – check your command of comma use in English grammar
Example of fixing many English grammar mistakes per sentence in a sales text
Semicolon rules – another part of English grammar
Semicolon exercises – a chance to practice your business communication skills
Colon rules: how/when to use this part of English grammar in business writing
Colon exercise – a chance to practice your written communication skills
Colon exercise – a chance to practice your written communication skills
Use of quotes – otherwise known as quotation marks in English grammar
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Question marks – this is a simpler, but still important part of English grammar
Question mark exercises – a chance to practice your English grammar skills
Question mark exercises – a chance to practice your English grammar skills
Hyphen rules – an important and tricky part of English grammar
Another rule for using the hyphen
Common terms with hyphen to memorize
Exercises to practice the hyphen rules – practice your business communication
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EXERCISE: English grammar and punctuation to practice English grammar skills
EXERCISE ANSWERS: English grammar and punctuation

STEP 2: Fixing common word choice errors

Common word choice errors: Its vs. it’s, fewer vs. less, than vs. then & more
Use of lets vs. let’s – avoid making these errors in your business communication
Who vs. whom – avoid making these errors in your business communication
Commonly misspelled words that spellcheck won’t pick up – don’t trust spellcheck
Regular and irregular verbs in English grammar
EXERCISE: Common word-choice errors
EXERCISE ANSWER: Common word-choice error
Common word error QUIZ

STEP 3: Verb tenses in English grammar

STEP 4: Common grammar and word choice mistakes to avoid

STEP 5: ChatGPT and Artificial Intelligence to enhance your writing

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STEP 6: Broadening your vocabulary

STEP 7: Making your writing more intellectual and sophisticated

STEP 8: Writing email to co-workers or managers. Elite email writing to impress!

Section introduction to writing professional emails
Email subject lines – clear, memorable, short, and searchable
Example of an email written between employees of the same company
Example of a confused and convoluted email, and how to improve it
Further explaining the previous lecture on not writing convoluted email
Your out of office auto-response email script
Using italics to emphasize importance, urgency, or emotion in a professional way
How to politely ask for something without the risk of offending them
The error to avoid when writing short sentences
Writing an email to co-workers or a manager – exercise
Writing an email to co-workers or a manager – exercise answer
Email communication skills quiz

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About Course

Business Communication Skills: Business Writing & Grammar

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Course Content

Introduction and warm welcome to this business writing and communications course

Welcome and what to expect from this business English and communication course

How to get more help, make the course more engaging, and network with students

STEP 1: Basic grammar for business writing

How to take the course PLUS self-assessment test for English grammar

Introducing basic building blocks of English grammar

Conjunctions – these are underrated, but important parts of English grammar

Formulas for correctly conjugating and punctuating complex sentences

Sentence clause exercise: hands on practice to improve your communication skills

Sentence clause exercise answers

Fixing run-on sentences and dealing with complex grammar issues

Exercise for testing run-on sentences in English grammar

Run-on sentence exercise answers

Example of fixing run-on sentences with simple and clear sentences

COMMAS: 10 comma rules in English grammar and writing

Comma exercise to practice your English grammar and written communication skills

Comma exercise answer – check your command of comma use in English grammar

Example of fixing many English grammar mistakes per sentence in a sales text

Semicolon rules – another part of English grammar

Semicolon exercises – a chance to practice your business communication skills

Colon rules: how/when to use this part of English grammar in business writing

Colon exercise – a chance to practice your written communication skills

Colon exercise – a chance to practice your written communication skills

Use of quotes – otherwise known as quotation marks in English grammar

often up comes grammar English of part this – exercise markQuotation

Question marks – this is a simpler, but still important part of English grammar

Question mark exercises – a chance to practice your English grammar skills

Question mark exercises – a chance to practice your English grammar skills

Hyphen rules – an important and tricky part of English grammar

Another rule for using the hyphen

Common terms with hyphen to memorize

Exercises to practice the hyphen rules – practice your business communication

course the to added examples more ManyNEW!

EXERCISE: English grammar and punctuation to practice English grammar skills

EXERCISE ANSWERS: English grammar and punctuation

STEP 2: Fixing common word choice errors

Common word choice errors: Its vs. it’s, fewer vs. less, than vs. then & more

Use of lets vs. let’s – avoid making these errors in your business communication

Who vs. whom – avoid making these errors in your business communication

Commonly misspelled words that spellcheck won’t pick up – don’t trust spellcheck

Regular and irregular verbs in English grammar

EXERCISE: Common word-choice errors

EXERCISE ANSWER: Common word-choice error

Common word error QUIZ

STEP 3: Verb tenses in English grammar

Introduction to English tenses

Four forms a verb can take in English grammar

EXERCISE: English verb tenses to practice your written communication skills

EXERCISE ANSWERS: English verb tense exercise answers

STEP 4: Common grammar and word choice mistakes to avoid

10 weak words to take out of your writing and example of email to boss

More weak words and phrases

Example of my own writing from years ago and how it can be improved

Example of using fewer words to communicate the same thing

Exercise – common grammar mistakes to avoid

Exercise – common grammar mistakes to avoid – answer

STEP 5: ChatGPT and Artificial Intelligence to enhance your writing

ChatGPT with writing improve we’ll how – introductionSection

Basic set of tasks and commands that ChatGPT Artificial Intelligence can do

ChatGPT in account an creating and intoLogging

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STEP 6: Broadening your vocabulary

Introduction: improving English vocabulary for intelligent communication

1000 English vocabulary words: Artificial Intelligence ChatGPT to practice them

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STEP 7: Making your writing more intellectual and sophisticated

Examples of interesting use of language using ChatGPT Artificial Intelligence

Taking regular language and beautifying it with metaphors with help of ChatGPT

EXERCISE: Make these sentences use more intelligent and creative language

EXERCISE ANSWERS: Make sentences use more intelligent and creative language

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