Course Overview

Expert communicators say that the importance of clear, concise communication in business cannot be over-emphasised. But, don’t take anyone’s word for it, test things for yourself. Take a piece of communication that you have written and assess its effectiveness in terms of its composition by asking yourself whether it is written with accuracy and clarity, is concise and most importantly, whether it conveys the intended message. You will notice that business writing is both an art and a science where the evidence speaks for itself.

Achieving excellence in business writing means that using appropriate grammar conventions, you will, among other things, learn how to check for accuracy and recognize errors, identify the target audience and draft and edit a technical text and present it in different ways using plain language.

Get writing the right way when you enrol now on RTC’s Business writing skills for function and purpose course. RTC offers business communication courses, business writing courses and communication classes. RTC offers business training programmes across South Africa.

Course duration

Two (2) days

Make yourself clear when you learn how to:

• Organise and structure a text appropriately for a business function.
• Identify and collect information needed to write a text specific to a particular function.
• Use textual features and conventions specific to business texts for effective writing.
• Present a written text for a particular function in a business environment.
• Compose a text using plain language for a specific function.
• Identify the target audience.
• Write with the target audience in mind.
• Draft and edit a technical text.

Get writing the right way when you enrol now on RTC’s Business writing skills for function and purpose course. RTC offers business communication courses, business writing courses and communication classes. RTC offers business training programmes across South Africa.

Benefits of attending: Business writing skills for function and purpose course

Upon successful completion of this course you will have acquired a better command of the importance of acquiring good business writing skills including:

• Applying correct use of grammar, punctuation and spelling to a business text.
• Understanding the basic terminology used in a typical business environment.
• Applying the correct use of business terminology to specific communication pieces.
• How to write for the target audience.
• How to ensure that the communication style is appropriate for the target audience taking care not to use inappropriate or offensive language and terminology.
• How to know what to write and what not to write.
• How to present the same information in different ways.
• Checking the information to ensure factual accuracy.
• How to appropriately structure information to ensure a logical flow throughout the text.
• How to apply correct use of message tone.
• How to avoid the use of inappropriate technical terms and jargon
• How to apply the conventions of plain language to enhance readability.
• How to proof read the text to ensure correctness.
• How to apply correct use of layout and formatting techniques to enhance readability.
• Applying industry and legislative requirements to texts as appropriate.

Learning Tools

All our courses are highly interactive; participants are called on to engage in activities and discussions throughout the training session(s). We also make use of various media to illustrate key learning points, including video clips.

Who is this course suitable for?

This course is aimed at those individuals who are seeking to improve their business communication skills.

This Unit Standard course is aligned to Unit Standard 12153: Use the writing process to compose texts required in the business environment

Course fees, reduce as you send more delegates; for example:

R14, 700 per person (1 person)

R9, 500 per person (2 people)

R7, 800 per person (5 people)

R6, 500 per person (10 people)

Upcoming Dates

Course Date	Course Duration	City
30 July 2021	1	Pretoria ,Polokwane,Port Elizabeth ,Durban ,Johannesburg
17 August 2021	1	Pretoria ,Polokwane,Port Elizabeth ,Durban ,Johannesburg
30 September 2021	1	Pretoria ,Polokwane,Port Elizabeth ,Durban ,Johannesburg
20 October 2021	1	Pretoria ,Polokwane,Port Elizabeth ,Durban ,Johannesburg
03 November 2021	1	Pretoria ,Polokwane,Port Elizabeth ,Durban ,Johannesburg
02 December 2021	1	Pretoria ,Polokwane,Port Elizabeth ,Durban ,Johannesburg

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