PARTICIPANTS

Chinese business executives and managers of all levels who want to improve their English language writing skills. The course will be especially helpful for executives who want to improve the writing they send to their English-speaking colleagues, clients, prospective customers and joint venture partners.

KEY BENEFITS

• Learn how to write clear, concise, and persuasive business letters, memos, reports and proposals
• Reduce the time you spend writing, rewriting and correcting your business documents in English
• Overcome your fear of writing in English
• Write more, and faster, with fewer mistakes
• Learn the editing skills you need to turn rough prose into polished gems

BENEFITS:

• Create a good impression with your business writing
• Get action from your letters and memos
• Use reference materials to identify and remove the most common mistakes of grammar, spelling, punctuation and usage
• Use layout to package your ideas beautifully
• Use the writing process as a creativity tool to produce powerful new business ideas.

DAY ONE

• THE WRITING CONTRACT
• MINDMAPPING & FREEWRITING
• HOW TO ACHIEVE A FRIENDLY, PROFESSIONAL TONE IN WRITING
• CHOOSING SIMPLE, POWERFUL WORDS
• THE KEY TO ACTION: THE ACTIVE VOICE
• REMOVING CLUTTER IN BUSINESS WRITING
• THE BEST REFERENCE MATERIALS, AND HOW TO USE THEM TO AVOID MISTAKES

DAY TWO

• PARAGRAPH STRUCTURE
• PARALLEL SENTENCE STRUCTURE
• COMMAS, COLONS & APOSTROPHES
• PROFESSIONAL LAYOUT TECHNIQUES
• PROOFREADING TO PERFECTION