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Business Writing Style

  • Online
  • $590

This course can be applied to the UBC Award of Achievement in Business English for International Professionals or it can be taken as a stand-alone course.

Designed specifically for multi-language learners, this course focuses on advanced areas of professional communication including tone, context, and relationship-building strategies.

Whether you are trying to strike the right note in an email to a client or co-worker, putting together promotional materials for yourself or your employer, or reaching out to community members with sensitive messaging, this course will enrich your awareness of the nuances of diverse communication situations and protocols and enhance your business writing skills.

Apply the strategies you learn in weekly assignments, contribute to class discussions, participate in group work and receive constructive feedback from your peers and the instructor.

This course can be taken as the follow-up course to Business Writing Essentials or can be taken on its own as a way to build expertise that is sensitive to context, nuance and tone at work.

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