Basic Grammar Course and Business Writing Skills Course Together
- The perfect combination of courses with grammar training and learning how to write clear, well-organized business documents
- In-depth, individualized grammar course focusing on language , punctuation, spelling, sentence structure, word usage, and writing business documents
- Business writing course contains four writing sample examinations and twelve practice business writing activities
- Basic grammar course goes through several writing samples to identify and provide individualized grammar training
- Instructor provides individual attention to grammar training needs
- Students study only the specific language and usage skills they need
- Self-pacing, available from anywhere in the world
- Unlimited access to the instructor to ask questions
- Online quizzes containing sentences from the student’s original business writing sample
- Instructor is a business college PhD professor
- Extensive feedback and coaching
- Clear, easily understood explanations of English grammar
- Tuition discounted to $595 for both courses
Grammar Course and Business Writing Course Syllabuses:
The Basic Grammar Course Tutorial
The Basic Grammar Course Tutorial provides grammar training for people who have problems in grammar, punctuation, spelling, word usage, or sentence structure. The course will help you learn new patterns to replace the old by using your own sentences as the grammar training examples. The teaching, practice, and tests are based on your own writing as much as possible. This grammar training course is highly individualized. The instructor carefully evaluates your business writing and prescribes grammar training and practice based on your unique needs. You receive grammar training on only the specific skills you need to learn, at your own pace. You have unlimited access to the instructor to ask questions.
You may purchase the grammar training textbook we use from a bookseller such as Amazon.com. However, the textbook is not required for the course. You will use online grammar training materials to learn the skills.
Grammar Course Content
You will send business writing samples to your instructor. Your instructor will read each sample thoroughly, identify grammar skills you need to learn, list the sentences with problems in each area with corrections showing how they should have been written, assign readings from the grammar training textbook, answer any questions you have about grammar, have you practice the grammar skill, and give you an online quiz containing sentences from your original writing sample that you must correct in ten minutes to be sure you have learned the skills. You have unlimited access to the instructor in the course.
Your instructor will look for issues in any of the following areas and give you grammar training in the skills you need:
• Abbreviations • Active Voice • Adverbs • Affect – Effect • Apostrophes to Show Possession • Articles • Bolding • Capitalization • Colloquialisms • Colons • Commas and Periods with Quotation Marks • Comma Overuse • Commas in a Series • Commas with “However,” “Therefore,” “Thus” • Commas with Coordinate Adjectives • Commas with Coordinating Conjunctions • Commas with Dates, States, Addresses, and Numbers • Commas with Introductory Elements • Commas with Nonrestrictive Appositives • Commas with Nonrestrictive Elements • Commas with Parenthetical Elements • Commonly Confused Word Pairs • Conciseness • Consistency • Contractions • Dangling and Misplaced Modifiers • Ellipses • Errors Unique to Your Writing • Formatting • Fragment Sentences • Gerunds, Infinitives, and Participles • Hyphens and Dashes • Hyphens with Compound Adjectives • Hyphens with Numbers • Hyphens with Prefixes and Compound Words • Idioms and Word Usage • Inversions • Lists • Modal Auxiliary Verbs • Mood Shift • Number (Singular or Plural) • Numbers Format • Omitting Space or Inserting Too Much Space • Parallelism in Lists and Sentences • Parentheses • Passive Voice • Periods • Plurals • Prepositions • Pronoun Reference • Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement Pronouns • Proofreading • Questions • Quotation Marks • Run-on Sentences • Run-on sentences Using “Therefore,” “However” • Semicolons • Simple Sentence Structures • Simple Vocabulary • Slashes • Spelling • Subject/Verb Agreement • Tense Endings • Tense Shifts • Tense • “There,” “Their,” and “They’re,” • Using Case Correctly • Using Key Words • “Whom,” “That,” and “Which” • Word Choice • Word Omitted • Word Unnecessary • Wordiness • Wording Problems
BWC210 Business Writing Skills
The Business Writing Skills course teaches the best practices business people must know to be able to create clear, effective, professional business writing, including e-mail, memos, letters, and reports. The Business Writing Skills course teaches a structured approach to writing that makes writing easier and guides readers through the content. Graduates report that they receive high praise for their business writing, and other employees begin to copy their style.
The course contains 12 business writing practice activities and four competency examinations. The online lessons contain clear explanations and many examples. You go at your own pace and submit business writing assignments when you are ready. The instructor evaluates the activities and examinations, comments on skills learned and skills that still need polish, coaches you through learning the business writing skills, and certifies your competence. You receive a Business Writing Skills course graduation certificate for framing at the end of the course.
Pre-write
Set goals.
Choose strategies based on the goals and readers.
Prepare notes for your email, memo, letter, or report.
Use special organizational patterns for some messages.
Write a clear, complete introduction.
For emails, letters, and memos, write a cordial beginning or buffer.
State the contents.
For reports, state conclusions and recommendations in the introduction.
Check each block for focus.
Check each block for completeness.
Use headings to open blocks.
Create lists.
For reports, write clear, complete, relevant explanations.
Write concisely.
Write clear, simple, active-voice sentences.
For reports, write clearly and simply for non-technical readers.
Use words the reader will understand.
Proofread.
Format the email to be readable.

Writing Coaching by Senior Instructor Dr. Robert Hogan
Dr. Robert Hogan teaches the coaching, tutoring, and individualized business writing courses. Dr. Hogan has been training writers for 40 years in universities, colleges of business, consulting companies, and professional writing companies. He has been a professor at the University of Pittsburgh, Allegheny County College, and Illinois State University College of Business. He was manager of communications in a telephone billing company and owner of a company writing documents on contract for government agencies and corporations.

Corporate and Government Training
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Dr. Hogan delivers workshops at company sites in general business writing, writing email, business report writing, writing letters, and principles of usage (grammar, punctuation, spelling, sentences, and word usage). More…

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Awards and Recognition
The Business Writing Center has been evaluated and has received awards or recognition from a number of organizations and media:
- U.S. General Services Administration
- Dun& Bradstreet
- Department of Defense
- National Association of Legal Assistants
- HR-Wire
- Florida Department of Health
- Investor’s Business Daily
- TechRepublic