Business Writing Training

Clarity in Business Writing

Half-day or one-day workshop. Clarity should be the principal goal of writers in a corporate environment. Unfortunately, many good business ideas are obscured by wordy, vague, convoluted writing. In this seminar, participants learn to enhance clarity by improving organization, streamlining sentences, and picking more precise, vivid language. Course principles are relevant for diverse types of business documents, from e-mail and memos to reports and other written communications. Each workshop participant receives a copy of the book A Writing Guide for Business Professionals from Syntaxis Press.

Business Writing & Grammar Workshop: Combination Course

One-day workshop. This workshop combines four hours of business writing training and two hours of grammar instruction in a single course. Workshop participants learn to organize their thoughts, improve e-mail etiquette, and express ideas more clearly. In addition to enhancing business writing skills, the course also covers common grammatical errors that detract from the professionalism of business documents. Each workshop participant receives two books from Syntaxis Press: A Writing Guide for Business Professionals and A Grammar Guide for Business Professionals.

Customized Business Writing Workshops

Half-day, one-day, or multiple-day workshops. Syntaxis regularly creates customized business writing courses to meet our clients' specific training needs. For example, we can design a customized seminar that focuses on research reports, marketing materials, e-mail correspondence, memos, or any other document type, developing exercises based on employee writing samples provided by the client. Each workshop participant receives a copy of the book A Writing Guide for Business Professionals from Syntaxis Press.

Grammar Workshops

Varied workshop lengths. Good writing demands good grammar. For many of our clients, we conduct grammar seminars as a valuable training complement to our business writing classes.

E-Mail Etiquette Workshops

Varied workshop lengths. For people whose business writing activities focus primarily on e-mail, one of our e-mail etiquette courses may be the ideal training solution.

Presentation Writing and Development Workshop

Half-day workshop. This seminar focuses on how to create clear, compelling presentation content and effective visual aids. For more details on this course, please visit the Presentation Skills Training section of our website.

60- or 90-minute training sessions. Our Lunch & Learn seminars are shorter than the business writing workshops described above and can accommodate more participants. Nonetheless, the training style remains lively and interactive, with plenty of audience participation. Seminars include "Become a Better Editor," "Better Business Letters," and "Memos, Letters, and E-Mail: A Survey of Form and Function." For a complete listing of our luncheon training sessions in all subject areas, please visit the Lunch & Learn Seminars section of our website.

Syntaxis conducts occasional public workshops open to individual registrants. Most public classes are sessions of our one-day combination course, "Business Writing & Grammar Workshop," which includes segments on business writing, e-mail etiquette, and grammar. For a calendar of upcoming classes, please visit our Public Workshops page.