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Be able to use business writing to write effective reports, proposals & more. Build your writing & communication skills!

Last updated 2022-01-10 | 4.7

- Be able to write with impact
- Be able to make your writing look trustworthy and pro-grade
- Be able to organize your ideas in an outline

What you'll learn

Be able to write with impact
Be able to make your writing look trustworthy and pro-grade
Be able to organize your ideas in an outline
Be able to research any topic and cite the research you've found
Learn why boolean searches are like digital lightsabers for a business writer
Be able to write effective headlines
Be able to proofread and format your pieces
Be able to maximize the use of Google Documents' more advanced features
Be able to write a sales proposal
data report
online article
proposal
and promotional video script step-by-step

* Requirements

* No prerequisites! Bring your ideas and energy.

Description

Welcome to the brand new business writing course from Eazl and bestselling online instructor, Davis Jones!  Version 1.4 is Fresh as of January 2022!

Be able to communicate your ideas, impress your clients, and persuade your colleagues!

"After taking this course you'll be able to deliver information unambiguously, foster better working relationships, and achieve many professional goals at a faster pace." -Carlos P.

"The messages come alive with the animations" -Enoch A.


Whether you are writing an email to a colleague or a proposal for a client, you need to be able to communicate clearly. Employers need employees with strong written communication skills and, in a world where a majority of interactions happen online, your writing skills are often your main points of contact with other professionals. The skills you will learn in this course are both scarce and in-demand.

Do you want to make sure that your ideas are not lost because of poor writing quality? Do you need to speak on behalf of an organization and make sure you keep your readers’ trust? Do you need to convert potential clients into paying clients? Are you hoping to be a manager one day? If so, you need do you know how to organize your ideas and write about them effectively.

In this course, you’ll learn how to write:

  • Proposals

  • Data Reports

  • Sales or Marketing Copy

  • Product and Service Descriptions

  • Strategic Recommendations

  • Event Descriptions

  • Announcements

  • Press Releases

  • Research Papers

  • Essays and Academic Papers

  • Promotional Video Scripts

  • White Papers

  • Arguments and Position Papers

  • ...and more.

Write Like a Pro

You need to know how to communicate effectively and efficiently. After taking this course and applying what you’ve learned, you’ll be able to reduce the amount of time that it takes you to write high-quality, impactful content by 50 to 90%.

  • Something that used to take you a week to write will now take you two hours.

  • Something that used to take you two hours to write will now take you 20 minutes.

Next time someone important asks you to send them something in writing, you won’t have to worry about it--you’ll know how to get it done quickly and skillfully.

Award-Winning Production Quality & Tons of Resources

“I love the efficient presentation method.” Dario D.

“I like how Eazl fits very important discussions into small chunks of video… I believe that this helps me absorb the information and stay more alert than a traditional, long tutorial video might.” – Robert B.

In this course, you will learn how to:

  • write impactful sentences

  • organize your ideas

  • back your ideas up with research

  • turn ideas into outlines

  • write first drafts of your pieces

  • format your documents so they look great and send clear messages

  • proofread your writing

You’ll also learn business writing skills while using Google Docs, the cloud-based production software used by more than 4 million organizations around the world.

Not only that, you will meet a group of experts--each of them with a unique professional background that involves writing--who will give you their tips and viewpoints on issues that you will face when you write for business purposes.

Justin, an Eazl student, said he thought the interviews were “awesome” in his five star review of Eazl’s courseware.

The whole learning experience in Business Writing: One Pattern, Infinite Applications is engineered for you to be able to successfully communicate at work and in the real world. This course will help you make progress on your career goals.

Become an Eazl Scholar and Prove Your Skills to Employers and Clients (Optional)

Completion certificates are losing their power in the marketplace as more and more online educators offer them but don’t require any demonstration of learning in exchange. In order for your continuing education efforts to be meaningful, you need to begin focusing more on exercising and proving your skills.

If you choose to pursue scholarship through Eazl, you can optionally earn verifiable Skills Badges, which will enable you to prove your skills to employers and/or clients. You can learn more about this opportunity through links in the course.

Smart Professional, Employers, and Non-Native English Speakers will Love this Course

LinkedIn recently used their massive amount of data to find the most in-demand soft skills in the world, and they found that persuasion and collaboration are 2 of the top 3 most in-demand skills. You’ll develop those skills and many other communication-related skills in this course.

  • If you’re a student or someone who’s self-employed, you’ll love this course. For example, Maran B. said that, “As a student and stay-at-home mom looking to get back into the workforce after a few years, this course really helped me.“

  • If you’re an employer, having one of your employees take this class is a great way to affordably skill up your team--Tesla, Apple, and the World Bank are just a few of the employers that already use Eazl Courseware.

  • If you’re a non-native English speaker, you’ll love this course. For example, Sirin T. told said that, “as a German college student, I really suffer from not having enough hands on information to know about how companies actually work.” in his five star review of Eazl courseware.

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We always work to keep this course's content fresh for you. Here are a list of upgrades:

  • Version 1.1 (Published on May 11, 2020)
    Added a new lecture centered around Google Docs formatting features. Thanks for helping us out with this, Saket!

  • Version 1.2 (Published January 2021)
    Fixed multiple resources that were broken, added new links to replace them. Thanks for the feedback, Hans!

  • Version 1.3 (Published November 2021)
    In this upgrade, we've added additional resources for writing for social media platforms (for example, for responding to reviews), for dealing with "writer's block", and for publishing business articles across the LinkedIn® social network.

  • Version 1.4 (Published January 2022)
    In this upgrade, our team has generated professional-grade English language captions for the course. This will be a great addition for ESL learners!

Who this course is for:

  • Communications professionals (e.g. marketers, investor relations, or PR specialists)
  • Advertising specialists who need to write short and medium-form content
  • Grant writers and people specializing in non-profit writing
  • College and university students specializing in business-related areas
  • Management consultants responsible for writing reports
  • Executives needing to get projects approved or deliver internal reports
  • Government agencies who need to publish clear, error-free written content

Course content

7 sections • 66 lectures

What Pattern Can Be Applied to Almost Any Business Writing Project? 5 lectures

Business Writing: One Pattern, Infinite Applications (Course Trailer) Preview 00:44

What You’ll Be able to Write: Reports, Proposals, Sales Copy, and More Preview 01:40

Skills: Business Communications, Corporate Communications, Copy Editing

Welcome to the Course. Can You Wield Achilles’ Spear? Preview 04:07

Access the Business Writing Study Guide, Outline Bank, and Special Resources Preview 00:58

Meet the Writers Who will Share their Tips with You in the Course Preview 03:40

Learn How to Write Proper Sentences that Make an Impact on Readers 9 lectures

Ingredients You Can Use to Make Delicious Sentences Preview 03:34

Examples of the Four Kinds of Sentences Preview 02:25

Skills: Sentence Structure, Grammar, Written Communication

The Big 4 in Punctuation: Commas, Hyphens, Dashes, and Quotes Preview 04:22

Skills: Punctuation, Proofreading, Grammar, Written Communication

How to Use Apostrophes, Colons, Ellipses, Exclamation Points, and Parentheses Preview 03:00

Skills: Punctuation, Proofreading, Grammar, Written Communication

SideBYSide: Proper Use of Dashes, Commas, and Quotes Preview 07:02

Skills: Punctuation, Proofreading, Grammar, Written Communication

Clear and Moving: How to Choose Words that Make an Impact Preview 03:27

Skills: Persuasive Writing, Copy Editing, Written Communication

Voices from the Field: What is Quality Writing? Preview 04:29

Take this Short Piece of Writing to the Next Level

Put your punctuation, proofreading, grammar, and persuasive writing skills in action.

Get Ready to Become an Architect (of Ideas) Preview 01:02

Skills: Business Writing, Business Communications, Persuasive Writing

Written Architecture: How to Organize Your Ideas in an Outline 8 lectures

What are the Impactful Business Writing Ingredients? Preview 03:10

How Your Message Becomes Sentences, Sections, and Paragraphs Preview 05:06

Keywords: ways to conclude a paragraph, opening paragraph, how many sentences should a paragraph have, intro paragraph format, how long is one paragraph, paragraph indentation

Skills: Business Communications, Persuasive Writing, Argumentation

Let’s Visualize How to Use the Five-Paragraph Pattern Effectively Preview 03:42

Keywords: formal essay outline, descriptive essay outline, outline for persuasive essay

Skills: Business Communications, Persuasive Writing, Argumentation

Voices from the Field: How Do You Grab a Reader’s Attention? Preview 04:13

Access the Business Writing Outline Guides and Tools Bank Preview 00:24

Side By Side: How to Use the Outline Bank to Build an Outline Preview 10:55

Skills: Productivity Improvement, Google Docs, Business Communications

Organize these Messages Like a Pyramid

Practice your business communications, persuasive writing, argumentation, and copy editing skills.

Coming Up: The Closest Thing On the Internet to a Lightsaber Preview 00:58

Skills: Business Communications, Business Communications, Business Writing, Report Writing

How to Research Any Topic: Boolean Search Modifiers and Citations 10 lectures

Did George Boole Create Our Information Age? Preview 02:37

How Boolean Searches are Real-life Lightsabers Preview 04:33

How to Use the BOSS Method to Qualify a Source Preview 02:32

Side By Side: How to Use Boolean Searches to Find High-quality Research Fast Preview 08:45

Skills: Online Research, Economic Research, News Analysis, Boolean Searching, Search Engines, Productivity Improvement

Side By Side: Four Methods for Reverse Engineering Peer-reviewed Research Preview 07:23

Skills: Academic Journals, Academic Research, Online Research, Search Engines, Productivity Improvement

Learn How to Cite Sources in Business Writing in Minutes Preview 04:24

Side By Side: How to Use the Eazl Citation Creation Machine Preview 02:56

Skills: Citations, MLA Style, Business Writing, Report Writing, Online Research

Voices from the Field: How Do You Perform Research Before Writing? Preview 03:16

How Should this Investor Approach the Space Industry?

Put your skills related to citations, MLA style, report writing, investment research, search engines, and boolean searching into action.

Let’s Scale the Boolean Mountain Preview 00:56

How to Write Effective Topic Sentences and Well-structured Paragraphs 8 lectures

Liftoff! Let’s Launch Your Outline into Orbit. Preview 02:38

How to Write Topic Sentences to Open Paragraphs Preview 05:20

Keywords: thesis statement, thesis writing, Controlling Message, Controlling Message example, thesis statement example

Skills: Business Writing, Document Drafting, Copy Editing

How to Write Opening, Body, and Concluding Paragraphs Preview 04:05

Keywords: lead paragraph, long paragraphs, how to start a paragraph, transition words, how many sentences in a paragraph, paragraph structure, paragraph transitions, how to write conclusion paragraphs, mla format, how to write an essay, how to cite a paragraph, good introduction paragraph

Skills: Business Writing, Document Drafting, Copy Editing

Side By Side: Writing a Topic Sentence and Introductory Paragraph Step-by-Step Preview 05:56

Skills: Business Writing, Document Drafting, Copy Editing, Google Drive

Let’s Write a Paragraph Using Dictation/Voice Command Software Preview 03:59

Skills: Digital Dictation, Business Communications, Copywriting, Document Drafting, Google Drive

Voices from the Field: What’s Your Writing Process Like? Preview 03:50

Use these Messages to Build a Body Paragraph

Practice your business communication, copywriting, and copy editing skills.

Your Writing is a Home--Build it with Quality Materials Preview 01:13

Skills: Drafting Documents, Business Writing, Copywriting

Make it Brilliant: How to Write Titles, Format, and Proofread Your Piece 12 lectures

What did Mark Twain Say to Write Instead of the Word “Very”? Preview 03:02

How to Write Your Titles and Format Your Piece Preview 06:22

Keywords: how to write titles, how to write movie titles in essays, convert, good blog titles, grammarly, purdue owl, standard essay format, template

Skills: Business Communications, Copywriting, Headline Writing, Formatting Documents

Copy Editing: Take These Three Steps to Upgrade Your Piece Preview 03:45

Keywords: copy editing, proofreading, grammarly, grammar check, copy edits

Skills: Copy Editing, Proofreading, Grammar, Formatting Documents

Voices from the Field: How Do You Use Formatting Tools When You Write? Preview 04:32

Side By Side: Let’s Revise Together Step-by-Step (1) Clarity (2) Flow (3) Polish Preview 07:04

Skills: Copy Editing, Proofreading, Headline Writing, Call to Action

Side By Side: Three Common Proofreading Upgrades + a Google Docs Skills Boost Preview 07:30

Skills: Copy Editing, Proofreading, Document Review, Formatting Documents, Google Docs

Side By Side: Let’s Practice Writing Titles Together Preview 04:52

Skills: Business Communications, Internal Communications, Persuasion

Side By Side: Text Styles, Custom Colors, Rulers, and Bookmarks in Google Docs Preview 11:40

Skills: Google Docs, Color Schemes, Formatting Documents

Side By Side: How to Use Headers, Footnotes, and Page Numbers in Google Docs Preview 03:44

Skills: Google Docs, Citations, Formatting Documents

Side By Side: How to Move, View Versions, Share, and Export Google Documents Preview 05:38

Skills: Google Docs, Document Management, File Sharing

Proofread and Format this Paragraph

Build your business communications, copy editing, document review, call to action, and formatting skills.

Remember: “Don’t Bury the _____” Preview 00:53

Skills: Persuasion, Copy Editing, Document Review

Let’s Write Five Pieces of Business Writing Together Step by Step 14 lectures

Introducing the Three-step ADR Writing Method Preview 02:15

Example 1 (Sales Proposal): Creating the Outline for Your Proposal Preview 15:07

Skills: Proposal Writing, Proposal Preparation, Pre-sales, Presentation Development, Visual Communication, Google Docs

Example 1 (Sales Proposal): Writing the First Draft of Your Proposal Preview 09:18

Skills: Proposal Writing, Proposal Preparation, Pre-sales, Presentation Development, Google Docs, Digital Dictation

Example 1 (Sales Proposal): Revising and Formatting Your Sales Proposal Preview 09:25

Skills: Proposal Writing, Pre-sales, Visual Communication, Google Docs, Copy Editing, Call to Action, Formatting Documents

Example 2 (Data Report): Let’s Build the Outline for a Formal Report Preview 06:49

Skills: Report Writing, Reporting & Analysis, Online Research

Example 2 (Data Report): Let’s Write and Format Our Data Report Preview 06:05

Skills: Report Writing, Business Writing, Reporting & Analysis, Formatting Documents, Visual Communication

Example 2 (Data Report): Let’s Have a Friend Proofread the Data Report Preview 01:19

Skills: Copy Editing, Report Writing, Google Docs

Example 3 (Online Article): Let’s Outline a Promotional Post Together Preview 12:45

Skills: Blog Marketing, Corporate Blogging, Online Journalism, Online Research

Example 3 (Online Article): Let’s Write and Revise Our Promotional Piece Preview 09:04

Skills: Blog Marketing, Copy Editing, Announcements, Newsletter Writing, Visual Communication, Formatting Documents

Example 4 (Internal Proposal): Outlining an Internal Proposal or Recommendation Preview 07:09

Skills: Internal & External Communications, Strategic Consulting

Example 4 (Internal Proposal): Let’s Save Time by Dictating Our Memo Preview 07:32

Skills: Digital Dictation, Internal & External Communications, Strategic Consulting

Example 4 (Internal Proposal): Revising Our Internal Proposal Preview 10:12

Skills: Business Writing, Strategic Consulting, Copy Editing, Formatting Documents

Example 5 (Promotional Video Script): Write a Script for a Persuasive Video Preview 06:37

Skills: Video Scripts, Business Communication, Web Video

How to Earn Business Writing Skill Badges | Content Upgrade Journal Preview 00:51