Course Name: Mastering the Principles of Business Writing
Discipline: Human Resources Management
Faculty: Mennen Aracid
Description: Business writing is a skill that can be learned well.

This is a two-day course designed to enhance professional writing. This course is for professionals who prepare and edit business proposals, memos, and letters for high impact results.


PRE-COURSE REQUIREMENT:
On the first day of the class, each participant is requested to bring soft and hard copies of:
a.    Business letters
b.    Memos       
c.    Emails
d.    Sections of a report
e.    Minutes of any meeting
Schedules:
Objective: A  successful participant will:
  1. Write clear and concise business documents;
  2. Discuss updates in business writing;
  3. Propose revisions to existing business documents; and
  4. Use Microsoft Word as an editing tool to gauge readability of business documents.
Outline: DAY 1: USAGE RULES

PRE-TEST

   I. Students will write a 15-minute composition
      Benchmarking:
         A. Word count
         B. Sentence count
         C. Word per sentence count
         D. Identification of usage errors

   II. Understanding my communication style
       A. Leadership communication preferences using Hippocrates personality theory
       B. Sensory preferences using VARK

   III. Revisiting usage rules
        A. Subject-verb agreement
        B. Run-on and comma splice
        C. Parallelism
        D. Pronouns
        E. Ambiguity

   IV. Editing applets in Microsoft Word

   V. Introductory concepts in mind mapping

DAY 2: REAL WORLD CASES

   VI. Business documents

   VII. Group Reports
          A. Email
          B. Memos
          C. Minutes of the meeting
          D. Reports
                                                                    TESTIMONIALS PAGE



ATENEO de MANILA UNIVERSITY
ATENEO GRADUATE SCHOOL of BUSINESS
CENTER for CONTINUING EDUCATION
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