The Business and Professional Writing Center
Your Business Writing Skills: You Are What You Write
It’s simple: the days of mainly verbal business communication: the phone, casual office visits, and meetings, are gone. Today the name of the media game is text: email, instant messaging, text messaging, social networking, and so on. Poor writing costs big bucks in mistakes, lost productivity and redundancy. Bottom line: you are what you write.
According to studies, including one prepared by the National Commission on Writing for America’s Families, Schools, and Colleges, there is significant room for improvement in business writing skills in general, and management knows it.
“Writing is both a ‘marker’ of high-skill, high-wage, professional work and a ‘gatekeeper’ with clear equity implications,” said Bob Kerrey, president of New School University in New York and chair of the Commission. “People unable to express themselves clearly in writing limit their opportunities for professional, salaried employment,” he said. (See report description)
Even more frightening is that the United States, once the most highly educated population in the world, is falling surely behind other nations. According to a report prepared by the National Commission on Adult Literacy, among 30 nations, the U.S. is the only one whose current generation does not possess better skills/education than the previous one.
- If you are a business professional, or seek to become one, you need to write, and write well.
- If you are a prospective business professional looking to enter the workforce for the first time, you need to write and write well.
- If you are a displaced business professional, you need to write and write well.
We offer courses, tutoring, and coaching designed to improve your writing skills, and therefore polish your professional image. Whatever your current skills, we will meet your needs with courses ranging from basic grammar and sentence construction to writing reports and proposals. We design our basic writing courses so you’ll practice and improve your skills using social networking sites since this is where so much business — and writing — occurs today. Please review our offerings:
Courses in Business Writing
Another option is to outsource some or all of your writing projects, and we can help you with that as well. Please review our services in more detail: