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Write for Business Courses teach the skills that businesses seek in workers: writing, communication, critical thinking, and problem solving. Clear instruction, helpful examples, engaging videos, and varied activities help you learn new strategies and apply them in your own writing and thinking. Participants earn certificates and CEUs upon completion. We offer the following types of course licenses:

  • Single licenses to enrich yourself and advance your career.
  • Facilitator licenses to conduct trainings with other participants.
Grammar for Professionals • Fundamentals of Writing • Writing for Results •
 Clear Writing Through Critical Thinking • Executive Writing

Grammar for Professionals

Grammar for Professionals

This course targets the most common and serious errors in workplace writing. Instead of learning rules in isolation, you will use them right away in your own writing. Grammar for Professionals will help you write complete, correct, and clear sentences; use parallel structure; write in the active voice; and avoid sentence errors. You’ll also review punctuation, capitalization, commonly confused words, and much more.

Watch a video about this course.

Printed versions are also available.

Fundamentals of Writing

Fundamentals of Writing

Discover what's working and what could be improved in any piece of writing—from generating and organizing ideas to writing clear and correct sentences. If writing is a challenge for you, Fundamentals of Writing will help you improve your abilities and confidence. If you feel comfortable writing, this course will hone your skills even further! You'll learn specific strategies to improve the ideas, organization, voice, words, sentences, and correctness in your writing.

Watch a video about this course.

Printed versions are also available.

Writing for Results

Writing for Results

In this course, you’ll learn proven strategies for explaining even complex topics and persuading the most resistant readers—getting them to take positive action. Writing for Results also helps you avoid embarrassing errors. Helpful explanations, examples, and videos teach key concepts, and digital activities for writing and editing help you practice what you learn.

Watch a video about this course.

Printed versions are also available.

Clear Writing Through Critical Thinking

Clear Writing Through Critical Thinking

This course will help you think critically at each stage of the writing process. You’ll learn to analyze, evaluate, and synthesize information. You’ll build logical and convincing arguments and avoid faulty logic. You’ll also gain problem-solving strategies that you can use back on the job.

Watch a video about this course.

Printed versions are also available.

Executive Writing

Executive Writing

Use the seven traits of effective writing to help you improve your own work and the writing of those you manage. You'll learn to analyze each writing situation, craft a clear main point, support it with key details, and communicate using plain language. You'll also write important management forms such as policies, procedures, responses to official inquiries, and executive summaries.

Watch a video about this course.

Printed versions are also available.

Printed Courses

The print versions of our Business Writing Track Courses let you teach writing, communication, and critical thinking onsite. These courses have trained thousands of workers in business, government, and higher education. Instruction is easy. Left-hand pages provide 10-minutes of instruction and examples, and right-hand pages provide a 10-minute activity applying the learning. You then spend 10 minutes discussing the concepts before moving on. A PowerPoint for each course lets you present right from the screen. Pre- and post-assessments measure learning. Want to know more? Browse the course listings below, or check out other resources:

Grammar for Professionals

This course targets the most common and serious errors in workplace writing. Instead of learning rules in isolation, you will use them right away in your own writing. Grammar for Professionals will help you write complete, correct, and clear sentences; use parallel structure; write in the active voice; and avoid sentence errors. You’ll also review punctuation, capitalization, commonly confused words, and much more.

Online versions are also available.

Fundamentals of Writing

This course helps you discover what's working and what could be improved in any piece of writing—from generating and organizing ideas to writing clear and correct sentences. If writing is a challenge for you, Fundamentals of Writing will help you improve your abilities and confidence. If you feel comfortable writing, this course will hone your skills even further! You'll learn specific strategies to improve the ideas, organization, voice, words, sentences, and correctness in your writing.

Online versions are also available.

Writing for Results

This course teaches proven strategies for explaining even complex topics and persuading the most resistant readers, getting them to take positive action. Writing for Results also helps you avoid embarrassing errors. Clear explanations, examples, and videos teach key concepts, and digital activities for writing and editing help you practice what you learn.

Online versions are also available.

Clear Writing Through Critical Thinking

This course will help you think critically at each stage of the writing process. You’ll learn to analyze, evaluate, and synthesize information. You’ll build logical and convincing arguments and avoid faulty logic. You’ll also gain problem-solving strategies that you can use back on the job.

Online versions are also available.

Executive Writing

This course uses the seven traits of effective writing to help you improve your own work and the writing of those you manage. You'll learn to analyze each writing situation, craft a clear main point, support it with key details, and communicate using plain language. You'll also write important management forms such as policies, procedures, responses to official inquiries, and executive summaries.

Online versions are also available.

Printed Guides

The 20th Anniversary Edition of the Write for Business Handbook has become the go-to reference for businesses like Amgen and Blue Cross Blue Shield, colleges like University of Wisconsin-Whitewater and Graduate School, and government agencies from the Department of Defense to Homeland Security. For 10 years, Write for Work has provided a practical work-text for institutions such as Gateway Technical College and Blackhawk Technical College, teaching communication and grammar to the up-and-coming workforce.

Write for Business

Your online workplace writing Guide is also available in print! Write for Business is a concise writing handbook that teaches the communication skills needed for success on the job. You'll discover strategies for writing effective emails, memos, résumés, letters, reports, proposals, instructions, policies, procedures, and much more. You'll find guidelines for writing each form, exemplary models, and checklists for revising and refining.

Write for Work

Write for Work is a practical guide to workplace writing and grammar, designed specifically for students in one- or two-year programs. This work-text uses the “Company” approach. At the beginning of the book, students profile a company they would like to work for. Then, as they work through the book, students write as employees of the companies they profiled. That way, nursing students write about nursing and welding students about welding.

Schools such as Gateway Technical College and Blackhawk Technical College use Write for Work to prepare the next generation to succeed in the workplace.