Through exercises and case studies, participants review the rules of grammar and apply a modern business prose style to their own documents in this 12-hour course. A companion course, The ESL Writer’s Workshop, is available for those who use English as a second language.

Who Should Attend
Those who demand current and correct business English.

Course Topics
In this 12-hour workshop, you will learn these tips for effective grammar and style:

• the parts of speech and the mechanics of sentence structure
• avoiding dangling participles and other cliff-hangers
• punctuation: colon, semi-colon, comma
• possessives
• use of pronouns
• avoiding sentence fragments and comma splices
• subject/verb agreement
• models for sound paragraph structure
• passive vs active voice
• straight-ahead prose, free of verbal roadblocks
• clear, meaningful sentence structure
• current vs obsolete phrases