Efficient Writing 100 Hours Certificate Course

There are 6 lessons:

1. Introduction
   • Scope of writing -where is writing used?
   • What is effective writing
   • Good writing is direct
   • Good writing is objective
   • Variety is good in writing
   • Understanding human communication
   • The communication process
   • Types of communication (verbal, non verbal, etc)
   • Communication channels
   • Communicating efficiently
   • Writing for a purpose
   • Understand your reader
   • Content
2. Basic Writing Skills
   • Parts of speech
   • Types of nouns -proper, common, collective
   • Purals
   • Possessive nouns and pronouns
   • Types of verbs: regular, irregular etc.
   • Adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions
   • Common gramatical errors: comma splices, fragmented sentences, dangling modifiers, etc
   • Sentence construction
   • Types of sentence: declarative, interrogative, exclamatory, etc
   • Sentance structure
   • Constructing sentances
   • Combining sentances
   • Expanding basic sentances
   • Adding modifying words, phrases or clauses.
   • Linking words or phrases
3. Clear Wording
   • Introduction
   • Common causes of confusion: homphones, malopropropisms, etc
   • Ambiguity
   • Making meanings clear: Illustrative context, glossing, etc
   • Informative language
   • Persuasive language
   • Imaginative language
   • Other types of language: colloquial, formal, informal, etc
   • Simplicity
   • Building a paragraph
   • General guidelines for effective writing
4. Concise Wording
   • Conciseness
   • Circumlocution
   • Condensing your writing
   • Common problemscontributing to lack of conciseness
   • Active and passive voice
   • Condensing text: how to Precis
5. Punctuation and Accuracy
   • Punctuation purpose
   • Semi colon, colon, dash, comma
   • Spelling
   • American or English spelling?
6. Planning what you write
   • Business formats
   • Business letters
   • Planning what you write
   • Writing a media release
   • Writing an answer or an essay
   • Academic writing, verbs, quotations
   • Unpack the question
   • Research
   • Referencing