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Fine-Tuning Your Business Writing Kim McCrackin — Coordinator of the Learning Services Center and Instructor of Business Communications at Oklahoma State University-Tulsa This seminar will teach you such skills as organization, consistency, and punctuation to achieve clarity and accuracy in your writing. It will help you reacquaint yourself with some of the essential rules of writing and provide you with some new pointers that will improve the overall readability of your business documents. Remember that accuracy and atten- tion to detail in your writing could reflect on you and/or the company for which you work and may also determine what people will read and what they will not. This seminar is sponsored by the Department of Management and the Center for the Future of Work in the Spears School of Business at Oklahoma State University. Participants earn 0.6 continuing education units (CEUs) upon completion of this seminar.
SEMINAR OUTLINE
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Constructing clear sentences
A. Including what is needed B. Moving the message forward C. Connecting ideas Emphasizing points effectively A. Identifying what is most important A. Limiting sentence content B. Eliminating unnecessary words C. Emphasizing by type of sentence Composing powerful paragraphs
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B. Positioning and spacing C. Using mechanical devices Communicating correctly
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A. Commas B. Semicolons C. Colons D. Apostrophes
» KORN FERRY COMPETENCIES
Business insight | Communicates effectively | Develops talent | Interpersonal savvy | Nimble learning | Demonstrates self-awareness | Self-development
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