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You May Enroll as an Individual without Company Sponsorship
You may enroll yourself without being part of a company training program. You will receive the same individual coaching from our trainers, thorough evaluations of your writing, and the graduation certificate for framing. All courses are taught by our trainers using the Internet and e-mail as media. Enroll . . .
Certification for Explicit
Business Writing Trainers
The Center trains and certifies corporate trainers, college faculty, and anyone interested in teaching the explicit business writing skills. More . . .
How Do I Decide the Type of Writing Training I Need or My Staff Needs?
The Business Writing Center has prepared a guide to help you understand the areas of business writing and how to decide which course will provide the training you or your staff needs. More . . .
Department of Defense Review of Business Writing Center Courses
Unknown to the Business Writing Center, a Department of Defense team of training specialists enrolled as a single trainee in a Business Writing Center course. After the team finished the course, they informed us that they had given the training very positive evaluations and recommended that the Center be used for Department of Defense training.
Florida Department of Health Selects the Center for Online Writing Training
The Florida Department of Health conducted a review of writing training orgnizations and concluded that the Business Writing Center will be the sole source for online business writing training for its employees.
Online Media: Cutting-Edge Training
Online training is rapidly becoming a preferred medium for training. Business Writing Center training is instructor led, with unlimited access to the instructor, individual coaching and encouragement, learning over time, individualized flexibility, and detailed faculty evaluations of every writing assignment. Instructors and students come to know each other very well. More . . .
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ATTN: Check to See If Your Company Has a Training Arrangement with Us
Many businesses have arranged with the Business Writing Center to train employees. Check the list of companies and agencies to see if your company or agency has an arrangement with us. If so, you may proceed directly to
the registration form. Your course materials will be online within a few hours. More . . .
Government Employee Training and 4th Quarter Budgeting
The Business Writing Center is listed in the federal Central Contractor Registry
and provides special arrangements for federal, state, and local government employees. It includes deferred enrollments for 4th quarter budgeting so enrollment arrangements now can be used for any employees for up to a year. More . . .
Competency-Based, Onsite
Business Writing Workshops
Dr. Hogan presents workshops at company sites to train participants in the skills they need to write explicit business documents. The workshops teach the best practices explained in Dr. Hogan's book, Explicit Business Writing: Best Practices for the Twenty-First Century.
The workshops are competency-based. Dr. Hogan evaluates participants' writing and certifies their writing competence or coaches them through revising.
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Interactive Training Materials for Professors and Corporate Trainers
A full-semester interactive training course is available for universities, colleges of business, and corporate trainers. It contains activities and case-study competency exams. It can be customized by the faculty member of trainer. More . . .
Customized Training for Corporations and Agencies
The Business Writing Center customizes training to fit a company's or agency's requirements. Center faculty will evaluate a company's or agency's writing, provide suggestions for training, and design a program to develop a workforce that writes explicitly. More . . .
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Resources for Business Writing Training
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Competencies for Business
Writing Training
Competency-based training in explicit business writing requires trainees to demonstrate competence in every writing skill to graduate.
You may download and freely distribute the lists of explicit-writing competencies that follow:
Summary of the writing standards for explicit business documents
Detailed writing standards for
explicit business documents
Writing standards for explicit e-mail
The competencies do not include grammar, punctuation, sentence structure, and spelling. The Web site at
explicit.businesswriting.com, has more about why language usage is not included in these lists.
Dr. Hogan Speaks to Groups about Explicit Business Writing
Robert Craig Hogan, Ph.D., director of The Business Writing Center, author of Explicit Business Writing: Best Practices for the Twenty-First Century, will speak to groups of employers and corporation or agency managers about how to develop a workforce able to write clearly and effectively. The goal is for all employees to communicate with 100 percent clarity to 100 percent of the readers, 100 percent of the time. More . . .
Taming the E-mail Problem
This PowerPoint presentation explains how business people can manage e-mails and keep e-mail viable as an efficient medium for business communication available today. You may use and copy it freely in your company.
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Best Practices for Writing that Communicates Clearly
 Robert Craig Hogan, Ph.D., director of The Business Writing Center, with 35 years of experience in teaching writing, has written a valuable writing guide for business people. The title is Explicit Business Writing: Best Practices for the Twenty-First Century.
The book contains the best practices businesses are using today to create workforces that communicate clearly and successfully. More . . .
Test Your Knowledge of the
26 Most Common Business
Writing Problems
Do periods and commas always go inside quotation marks? This sentence is incorrect: "The jury was at odds over the verdict." Do you know why?
You may take the free quiz of the writing problems business people often display by clicking here. The quiz is a teaching tool you may use freely. If you are a manager, you may use it with your employees.
For each item in the quiz, you or your employees choose the sentence you believe is written correctly. After you select sentences for all of the items, your score will appear immediately, along with an explanation of the rule for each of the choices you made. Some of them will surprise you.
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Online Business Writing Courses
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33 Online Business Writing Courses
The Business Writing Center offers 33 online business writing courses, ranging from basic grammar to advanced courses such as Proofreading Skills and Writing Clear, Objective Audit Reports. The courses are listed in the left column of this page. Anyone may enroll for a course by filling out the registration form.
The Business Writing Center provides a free evaluation of a writing sample with suggestions for the courses that would be best for the writer.
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Online Writing Courses for
Busy Business People
BWC95 Business Writing Essentials
BWC85 Basic Grammar Essentials
In response to requests for versions of our online courses that require less trainee and faculty time, the Business Writing Center has developed online courses in business writing and usage (grammar, punctuation, and syntax) that have the same content as the longer online courses, but require one-third of the faculty time and student time.
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Individualized Writing Courses
The real strength of training using the Internet and e-mail as the media is that it allows more individualized teaching than any other medium, including having a personal tutor. The trainee can learn and write at his or her own pace, taking all the time necessary. The instructor is available to provide guidance and coaching at any point. A classroom environment or tutoring appointments don't allow that flexibility.
To make the individualized teaching and coaching available to trainees, the Business Writing Center offers six individualized courses. More . . .
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Business Writing for Nonnative Speakers of English
The Business Writing Center offers three courses to help nonnative speakers of English polish their business writing language skills. The courses are intended for nonnative speakers of English who have mastered English but now need to polish their use of phrases, articles, modal auxiliaries, tenses, and the other areas that commonly cause problems for international speakers of English as a second language. More . . .
Courses for Certification in
Explicit Business Writing
The Business Writing Center certifies business writers in the 39 best practices that result in explicit business writing. A graduate certified as competent in the skills will be able to write e-mails, memos, letters, and reports that communicate with 100 percent accuracy to 100 percent of the readers, 100 percent of the time. The Center also certifies students in colleges of business.
Two courses teach the best practices: BWC220 Explicit Business Writing, which has five competency exams, and BWC225 Explicit Business Writing with Additiional Training, which has 39 activities and 17 competency exams. BWC225 is sufficiently thorough that graduates are able to edit others' writing and teach the skills. The course is suitable for training trainers. The interactive materials are available for use by professors and corporate trainers.
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Learning Correct Grammar
Businesses would like their employees to write without grammar errors, so they arrange to have them attend workshops on grammar. Unfortunately, a workshop simply will not teach business people how to overcome problems in their language usage. However, there is training that will help employees use correct grammar, punctuation, sentence structure, and spelling.
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Responding To Customers in E-mails: Let Customers' Words Guide You
The Service & Support Professionals Association (SSPA) has released Responding To Customers in E-mails: Let the Customers' Words Guide You, a publication based on The Business Writing Center's Writing Skills for Technical Support Representatives online training course. To see the introduction and contents of the course, click here.
Interview with the Director
by The New York Times
The New York Times published an article on page A-1 about writing training featuring an interview with The Business Writing Center's director, Robert Craig Hogan, PH.D. You can read the article at this link.
Article about the Center
in The Daily Pantagraph
The Daily Pantagraph (Bloomington, Illinois, where The Business Writing Center's main site is located) interviewed the Center's director, Robert Craig Hogan, PH.D. at his office. You can read the article at this link.
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Review of the Proofreading Skills course by Investor's Business Daily
Investor's Business Daily interviewed a graduate of the Proofreading Skills course and wrote a review of the course and taking online training. Click here to see the review.
Article about the Center
in TechRepublic
TechRepublic published an article describing Center resources available for IT professionals. Click here to see the review.
Cincinnati Enquirer article
The Cincinnati Enquirer weekly magazine published an article about the unique services the Business Writing Center offers.
Article about the Center in hr-esources and HRWire
HR-esources and HRWire published an article about the Center and our suggestions to help corporations improve the quality and clarity of their writing, especially e-mail. To read the article, click here.
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Online Business Writing Training Materials for Trainers and Professors
The following online, interactive course materials are available for corporate trainers and college faculty. The Business Writing Center has a train-the-trainers course training corporate trainers to use any of the materials.
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Basic Grammar for Business
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Business Writing Skills
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Editing Skills
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Effective Business Letters
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Effective Workplace E-mail
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Explicit Business Writing
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Legal Proofreading Skills
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Legal Writing Skills
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Plain English Writing Skills
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Proofreading Skills
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Recording and Writing Meeting Minutes
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SEC Plain English Writing
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Writing Clear, Objective Audit Reports
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Writing Skills for Contact
Center Representatives
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For more information, send an e-mail to the Business Writing Center.
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E-mail the Center at
center@writingtrainers.com
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