Course Details
Better Business Grammar
18 Apr 2012
Professional Development
Communication
The University of Auckland
Room 326, Level 3, 1-11 Short Street, Auckland CBD
Full Day
8.30 - 4.30
8.30 - 4.30
$695.00
Includes morning tea, lunch and afternoon tea
Includes morning tea, lunch and afternoon tea
Forgotten where to put the apostrophe? Confused about sentence construction, paragraph breaks, commas and semicolons, capitals and abbreviations?
This one-day course is a refresher and a confidence booster for those people who are feeling hesitant about their English grammar. This course will provide you with tools to help you edit your documents for both grammatical and punctuation errors.
At the conclusion of this short course, you will be able to confidently construct concise and grammatically correct documents.
Course outline
• using an effective process for self-editing and proofreading
• exploring the trends in grammar, spelling and punctuation - what's changed since you were at school?
• writing active sentences
• using apostrophes correctly
• getting subject-verb agreement right
• sorting out common confusions. For example, I or me; you or yourself? Who or whom? That or which?
• answering your questions about spelling, punctuation and grammar - bring your list.
This one-day course is a refresher and a confidence booster for those people who are feeling hesitant about their English grammar. This course will provide you with tools to help you edit your documents for both grammatical and punctuation errors.
At the conclusion of this short course, you will be able to confidently construct concise and grammatically correct documents.
Course outline
• using an effective process for self-editing and proofreading
• exploring the trends in grammar, spelling and punctuation - what's changed since you were at school?
• writing active sentences
• using apostrophes correctly
• getting subject-verb agreement right
• sorting out common confusions. For example, I or me; you or yourself? Who or whom? That or which?
• answering your questions about spelling, punctuation and grammar - bring your list.
Anita Jenkins BA, CertHE, CertDM
Anita is an experienced business writer and training facilitator. She firmly believes that business writing can be simple and enjoyable once you have the right tools. Anita coaches and writes for clients in the corporate, tertiary and not-for-profit sectors.
Anita is an experienced business writer and training facilitator. She firmly believes that business writing can be simple and enjoyable once you have the right tools. Anita coaches and writes for clients in the corporate, tertiary and not-for-profit sectors.