Business Writing Foundations

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Course Details

  • Location: Online
  • Duration: 8 weeks
  • Times: Flexible
  • Cost : $1,125

Next Start Date:

March 31, 2025

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About this Course


Are less-than-stellar writing skills holding you back from achieving your full career potential? Being a strong writer can be a huge advantage in the modern workplace — helping you sell your ideas, communicate with colleagues and managers, and better engage with your customers or target audience.

In this course, you’ll learn how to produce great business writing that gets results and leaves a lasting impression, whether it’s for a letter, email, proposal, presentation or web content. You’ll refresh your grammar and punctuation knowledge, identify common English usage pitfalls (such as passive voice) and discover the importance of plain, jargon-free writing. You’ll practice producing inclusive, bias-free language; explore how to make documents more accessible; and learn about adjusting voice and tone for your audience. We’ll also cover how to use large language models and other artificial intelligence (AI) tools as part of your business writing workflow.

Designed For

Anyone who wants to improve their business communication skills and become a more effective, confident writer.

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Explore More: Looking for a more advanced business writing course? Check out the Business Writing: Reports, Proposals & Documents course or explore our other programs for writers and editors.

What You’ll Learn

  • The essentials of grammar, punctuation and English usage
  • Methods for producing clear, concise prose for diverse audiences
  • How to follow plain language guidelines and avoid jargon and wordiness
  • Techniques for writing effective prompts for generative AI tools
  • How to leverage data in your business writing to drive decision-making

Get Hands-On Experience

  • Write a STAR (situation, task, action, result) assessment of a situation at your work or other organization
  • Edit a real-life business document using the techniques and principles honed in this course

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EARN A DIGITAL BADGE

After successfully completing this course, you can claim a digital achievement badge that can be shared on LinkedIn and other social media sites. Learn more about digital badges.

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Learning Format

Online Asynchronous

Enjoy the flexibility of asynchronous learning with the structure of a regular course. With no real-time meetings, you’ll complete weekly assignments and interact with your class at times that work for you. Learn More »

Course Sessions

Online Asynchronous

This course is offered 100% online and runs from March 31, 2025, to May 24, 2025.

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Meet your instructor

Andi Tosch

Technical Writer & Editor, Salesforce

NONCREDIT COURSE

You'll earn 3 continuing education units (CEUs) for successfully completing this course. Learn more about noncredit options.

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