About Course
Business Communication Skills: Business Writing & Grammar
Professional communication skills: Business writing, English grammar, business English, email, and presentations skills
What Will You Learn?
- 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
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Welcome and what to expect from this business English and communication course
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How to get more help, make the course more engaging, and network with students
STEP 1: Basic grammar for business writing
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How to take the course PLUS self-assessment test for English grammar
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Introducing basic building blocks of English grammar
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Conjunctions – these are underrated, but important parts of English grammar
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Formulas for correctly conjugating and punctuating complex sentences
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Sentence clause exercise: hands on practice to improve your communication skills
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Sentence clause exercise answers
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Fixing run-on sentences and dealing with complex grammar issues
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Exercise for testing run-on sentences in English grammar
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Run-on sentence exercise answers
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Example of fixing run-on sentences with simple and clear sentences
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COMMAS: 10 comma rules in English grammar and writing
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Comma exercise to practice your English grammar and written communication skills
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Comma exercise answer – check your command of comma use in English grammar
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Example of fixing many English grammar mistakes per sentence in a sales text
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Semicolon rules – another part of English grammar
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Semicolon exercises – a chance to practice your business communication skills
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Colon rules: how/when to use this part of English grammar in business writing
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Colon exercise – a chance to practice your written communication skills
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Colon exercise – a chance to practice your written communication skills
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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
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Question mark exercises – a chance to practice your English grammar skills
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Question mark exercises – a chance to practice your English grammar skills
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Hyphen rules – an important and tricky part of English grammar
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Another rule for using the hyphen
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Common terms with hyphen to memorize
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Exercises to practice the hyphen rules – practice your business communication
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EXERCISE: English grammar and punctuation to practice English grammar skills
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EXERCISE ANSWERS: English grammar and punctuation
STEP 2: Fixing common word choice errors
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Common word choice errors: Its vs. it’s, fewer vs. less, than vs. then & more
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Use of lets vs. let’s – avoid making these errors in your business communication
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Who vs. whom – avoid making these errors in your business communication
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Commonly misspelled words that spellcheck won’t pick up – don’t trust spellcheck
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Regular and irregular verbs in English grammar
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EXERCISE: Common word-choice errors
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EXERCISE ANSWER: Common word-choice error
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Common word error QUIZ
STEP 3: Verb tenses in English grammar
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Introduction to English tenses
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Four forms a verb can take in English grammar
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EXERCISE: English verb tenses to practice your written communication skills
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EXERCISE ANSWERS: English verb tense exercise answers
STEP 4: Common grammar and word choice mistakes to avoid
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10 weak words to take out of your writing and example of email to boss
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More weak words and phrases
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Example of my own writing from years ago and how it can be improved
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Example of using fewer words to communicate the same thing
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Exercise – common grammar mistakes to avoid
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Exercise – common grammar mistakes to avoid – answer
STEP 5: ChatGPT and Artificial Intelligence to enhance your writing
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ChatGPT with writing improve we’ll how – introductionSection
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Basic set of tasks and commands that ChatGPT Artificial Intelligence can do
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STEP 6: Broadening your vocabulary
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Introduction: improving English vocabulary for intelligent communication
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1000 English vocabulary words: Artificial Intelligence ChatGPT to practice them
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flashcards vocabulary with vocabulary English Learning
STEP 7: Making your writing more intellectual and sophisticated
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Examples of interesting use of language using ChatGPT Artificial Intelligence
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Taking regular language and beautifying it with metaphors with help of ChatGPT
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EXERCISE: Make these sentences use more intelligent and creative language
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EXERCISE ANSWERS: Make sentences use more intelligent and creative language
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STEP 8: Writing email to co-workers or managers. Elite email writing to impress!
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Section introduction to writing professional emails
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Email subject lines – clear, memorable, short, and searchable
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Example of an email written between employees of the same company
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Example of a confused and convoluted email, and how to improve it
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Further explaining the previous lecture on not writing convoluted email
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Your out of office auto-response email script
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Using italics to emphasize importance, urgency, or emotion in a professional way
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How to politely ask for something without the risk of offending them
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The error to avoid when writing short sentences
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Writing an email to co-workers or a manager – exercise
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Writing an email to co-workers or a manager – exercise answer
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Email communication skills quiz
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