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Their tone and content may be serious, but letters, memos, e-mail messages, proposals, and reports with grammatical or punctuation errors won't be taken seriously. In this two-part workshop, participants learn how to avoid embarrassing mistakes in everyday business correspondence by getting a comprehensive, confidence-building review of the basic rules of grammar, capitalization, word usage, sentence structure, and punctuation.
Key Points:
Identify and use the eight parts of speech correctly
Write clear, complete sentences, fix sentence fragments and run-on sentences
Spot and correct errors of agreement, consistency problems and pronoun mistakes, and misplaced or dangling modifiers
Change passive voice to active voice
Use that/which, who/whom appropriately
Spot and correct missing or misplaced periods, question marks, exclamation points, quotation marks, apostrophes, hyphens, dashes
Use colons, semicolons, parentheses, and ellipses correctly
This two-part workshop meets once a week over two consecutive weeks; please plan to attend both dates.
Cost: NU Employees $180; Non NU Registrants $295
Learning & Organization Development
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