Advance Writing Skills (Three days)

This workshop is designed for mid level participants to learn, practice and apply modern writing techniques and skills to produce high quality write ups including inter office memos, letters, reports and documents.

Objectives

• Develop techniques to overcome writer's block and begin writing

• Develop competence to write and enjoy writing

• Know their level and understand how to improve it

• Write various types of business documents

Contents

• How to write

  • Principles of writing

• Writing Process

• Pre-Writing:

  • Analyzing your audience (determining the recipient of your writing)

  • Finding information to write

  • Generating ideas to write to achieve effectiveness

  • Developing an outline of your document

• Drafting:

  • Writing your first drafting quickly

• Revising:

  • How to effectively edit and revise to fulfil your organization’s needs

  • What to look for during revision

• Writing Business Messages

  • Short/Memo Reports, Office memos and letters for inter-office, inter-Departmental Purposes

  • Writing Electronic mail

Learning Outcome

• Techniques to overcome writer's block

• Take writing as fun and challenge

• Strategies to improve their writing skills

• How to write different types of business documents

Who should attend

The target audience is Secretaries, Assistants, and Technical Professionals from any discipline or department.

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