Advanced Writing Skills Courseware and Training Materials

What's included?
What’s included?
Available for delivery as a download from our web server or provided on CD, this courseware package includes the following resources to make your trainer’s life much, much easier.

This courseware package includes:

	Student Manual. Fully customisable. May be opened in any wordprocessor and changed to meet your exact needs.
	Trainer manual. Fully customisable with additional information for trainers.
	Ice breakers and class activities. Fully customisable. Delivered as a folder full of activities for your students.
	Content overview. Fully customisable. Comprehensive course overview to help you market your course to your customers.
	PowerPoint presentations. Fully customisable. Complete set of PowerPoint slides for use by the trainer.
	Sales information sheets. Fully customisable. Information sheets to help you sell your course to your employees or external customers.
	Additional reading… Fully customisable. Give your students some recommended further reading materials for this course.

To get started, just open this ‘Advanced Writing Skills’ training courseware in your favourite word processor. You can fully customise the materials to suit your exact learning needs and include your own branding. Your own tailor-made course, delivered ‘off-the-peg’ and saving you thousands of pounds in development time and man-hours. Just press print and the perfect learning experience is yours to deliver.

Course outline
Course outline

Introduction

All writing should be clear, concise, and correct. Good writers use plain language to express clear meaning. They write in a simple style that uses every day words. They do not use showy words and ambiguous expressions in an effort to dazzle or confuse readers. They write to express ideas, not to impress others.

This is a one-day workshop for those who already are good writers. Our time will be devoted to writing letters of recommendation, of persuasion, of refusal or of action, that reflect current word usage and up-to-date formats. Participants can also become more skilled at writing business cases, proposals and reports, and learn a bit more about e-mail etiquette.

Highlights of what participants will learn:

• Discuss their writing challenges
• Learn how to make their writing clear, concise, and correct
• Improve sentence construction and paragraph development
• Identify some ways to make their writer simpler and easier to read
• Learn about a tool that can determine how readable their work is
• Develop effective business letters for tough situations
• Discuss e-mail etiquette
• Develop an appropriate writing style and format for your letters, business cases, and reports
• Recognize standard ways of documenting materials

Target audience

The Courseware Company’s products are typically purchased by IT and business skills training providers, schools and colleges or corporate training departments. Content can also be bought and customised by freelance trainers for their own customers.

Prerequisites

No previous experience or training in writing skills is required, though students should possess basic numeracy and literacy and ideally have a basic understanding of using computers and software applications, such as Microsoft Word.

Course contents

• Introduction and Course Overview You will spend the first part of the day getting to know participants and discussing what will take place during the workshop. Students will also have an opportunity to identify their personal learning objectives.
• The Three C’s All writing should be clear, concise, and correct. We will look at these three elements in detail during this session and practice each of them.
• Grammar and Writing Mechanics This session will outline seven easy ways to help participants simplify their writing and ensure their grammar is correct. Participants will also take a close look at the proper length of paragraphs, what a paragraph should contain, and how to order paragraphs.
• Determining Readability During this session, you will help participants use the readability test (also called the Gunning Fog Index) on their own work.
• Writing Letters There are twelve important parts to a business letter, and several different styles. We will examine all of these closely. We will also look at the proper way of folding a letter and placing it into an envelope.
• Dealing with Specific Requests Often people are asked to respond to a request for information or to write a particular letter (of recommendation, for example). We’ll discuss some tips to keep in mind when writing one of these particular documents.
• E-mail Etiquette These days, e-mail has become a universal method of communication. However, there are many questions of etiquette and few answers. This session will discuss some common dilemmas and our recommended answers.
• Business Documents Another common task is to write a business case, request for proposal, or a formal report. Where would you start? We will provide some guidelines and checklists that will help with these tasks.
• Workshop Wrap-Up At the end of the day, students will have an opportunity to ask questions and fill out an action plan

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