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For employees:
Improve your business and technical writing skills In the Text Doctor's courses: - Learners study an award-winning workbook (2002 APCC Excellence in Training Award).
- Learners interact with the instructional material and with others in the classroom; they are always engaged, always awake, always learning and questioning.
- Learners immediately apply course material to their own writing.
- In many courses, learners receive online support for one year.
| Employee Workshops | Description | Length | Technical writing | Presents principles of good technical writing and provides opportunities to apply them directly and get feedback in a structured, risk-free environment. Specifically focuses on proposals and procedures. | one- or two-day | Business writing | Presents principles of good business writing and provides opportunities to apply them directly and get feedback in a structured, risk-free environment. Covers correspondence and reports. | one- or two-day | Specifications workshop | Presents principles of good technical writing of specifications (statement of work) and provides opportunities to apply them directly and get feedback in a structured, risk-free environment. | one day | Grammar refresher | A lively, interactive tour of current usage, punctuation, capitalization, apostrophes, and numbers. | one day | Writing better correspondence | This workshop will show how letters, memos, and e-mail differ and how to develop logical, high-impact correspondence, including how to adapt to different audiences. | 3- or 4-hour | Writing better reports | This course is for everyone who has to write activity reports, progress reports, final reports, performance appraisals, lab reports, minutes for meetings, book reviews, expense reports, trip reports, audit reports, and scrap/waste/defect reports. | 3- or 4-hour | Writing better proposals | Many employees are not used to persuading others. This course will help them make their case to a variety of audiences. | 3- or 4-hour | Writing better procedures | Often, employees must write procedures for ISO 9000, Sarbanes-Oxley, or other regulatory purposes without experience or training. This course will introduce employees to best practices in writing procedures. | 3- or 4-hour | Writing better e-mail | This program will present best practices in writing e-mail messages, including practice and interaction. | 3- or 4-hour | Writing better meeting minutes | This program will show you how to produce easy-to-read minutes (decisions made, action items, and open issues). | 3- or 4-hour | Proofread like a pro | A thorough introduction to proofreading skills and techniques. (Note: Grammar will not be taught in this class. Please see Grammar Refresher). | 3- or 4-hour | | | | |
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