Writing Skills Training

Register for one of our specialist 1:1 courses and in just a few hours you can acquire the skills to help you write more effective reports and proposals, letters and memos. Courses are also available on a group basis.

Poor writing skills can have a serious impact on our confidence, our time management and even our prospects for promotion, so it is no surprise that many people have attended a Writing Skills course at some point in their professional career.

Our English Writing Skills courses are individually designed following a detailed pre-course assessment, and are popular with both native and non-native speakers of English. Courses are also available in other languages and vary in length according to the ability and objectives of each participant. As a guide,15 - 30 hours is usually sufficient, and the training is conducted on a half day/full day basis or in weekly sessions. Topic areas normally covered, include:

• Getting started - overcoming 'writer's block'
• Managing your time
• Planning what you want to say
• Targeting your reader 
• Opening and closing with maximum effect
• 'House' style and 'personal' style
• Use of formal and informal language
• Use of the active and passive voice
• Linking your ideas
• Being concise - 'less is more'
• Sentence structure
• Improving your grammar and punctuation
• Summarising
• Keys to successful editing

If you would like to discuss any aspect of our Writing Skills Training Courses, complete our short Enquiry Form and we will get in touch with you the same day.  Thank you.

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