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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. » KORN FERRY COMPETENCIES Business insight | Communicates effectively | Develops talent | Interpersonal savvy | Nimble learning | Demonstrates self-awareness | Self-development
SEMINAR OUTLINE I. Constructing clear sentences A. Limiting sentence content
B. Eliminating unnecessary words C. Emphasizing by type of sentence II. Composing powerful paragraphs A. Including what is needed B. Moving the message forward C. Connecting ideas III. Emphasizing points effectively A. Identifying what is most important
B. Positioning and spacing C. Using mechanical devices IV. Communicating correctly A. Commas B. Semicolons C. Colons D. Apostrophes
The Center for the Future of Work in the OSU Spears School of Business offers various certificate programs and customized professional development.
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