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2021-02-04 21:27:00
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Business Communications Writing

7 Lessons on Writing for Becoming a Standout Writer

Tested Techniques for Fast Writing Skills Improvement
Rating: 4.5 out of 54.5 (786 ratings)
5,131 students
Created by Duncan Koerber
Last updated 2/2021
English
English
30-Day Money-Back Guarantee

What you'll learn

  • Write clear, precise, and direct prose
  • Find alternative ways of constructing sentences
  • Communicate better with readers
  • Avoid clichéd words and phrases
  • Develop greater command of the English language
Curated for the Udemy for Business collection

Requirements

  • Word processing software like Microsoft Word or OpenOffice

Description

  • One of the high-rated writing courses on Udemy

  • 4.77 out of 5 all time student rating (95.4%)

  • 35 5-Star reviews

  • Taught by a UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR, Dr. Duncan Koerber

  • Submit your writing exercises to Dr. Koerber for review within the course 

    What students say...

"Excellent--I rate it ten stars out of five." — Julie Heyer, Udemy Student

"Take this course - improve your writing — end of story!" — James Cochrane, Udemy Student

"The content is fantastic."
  — Chris Lewis, Udemy Student

"Information that you can apply right away."
— Kim Ruby, Udemy Student

"I can tell he's passionate about his work and he shows it throughout the lessons."
— Ana, Udemy Student

"I recommend this course to anyone who wants to improve their writing."
— Sheverley Maye, Udemy Student

"This is an especially useful and remarkably good course." 
— Avrohom Meir Greenhut,

Udemy Student


"The assignments forced me to become more objective and build better habits."
— Marla Morris, Udemy Student 

"The explanation of parallelism and its usage was simply amazing."
— Bindu Midha, Udemy Student

Do you want to impress employers, editors, or online readers with your writing? Do you want to get A grades on term papers and essays? Do you want to become a good writer – in creative non-fiction, journalism, fiction, or academic writing – as quickly as possible?

The secret to this writing success is not studying 200 grammar and style points in the writing textbooks. 

Instead, this course – designed by an experienced university professor and published author with Oxford University Press – shows you the sentence-level lessons you need to know to write well. These are the 7 most common problems found in people’s writing. These problems most likely lurk – like weeds – in your writing right now.   

If you complete the lessons and exercises honestly and fully as outlined in this course, then your writing will improve in just a few weeks of intensive study. If you do not find this course helpful, you may request a refund within 30 days, no questions asked.     

These lessons and exercises were designed and tested at the University of Toronto and York University with thousands of undergraduate students. Many students improved their grades by a whole grade category after completing these lessons, finding that this short list of key lessons provides clarity. Students have applied these lessons in the workplace to great success. 

Join now and complete this course to produce writing that gets you the job, earns you an A grade, lands you a writing contract, or impresses that magazine or newspaper editor.   

In this comprehensive course, I will help you:

  • See sentences more objectively;

  • Understand the factors that interfere with communication;

  • Remove dead language – such as dead verbs and weak nouns – from your writing;

  • Avoid embarrassing clichés;

  • Write more clear, direct, and precise sentences;

  • Use adjectives and adverbs more carefully, in targeted ways;

  • Write poetically and rhythmically with parallelism and sentence variation;

  • Add detail to your writing;

  • Plant vivid images in readers’ minds; and,

  • Become an original writer, not a copy.

Your writing transformation awaits...

Who this course is for:

  • This course is primarily for beginning writers or intermediate writers looking to target trouble spots in their writing.

Course content

9 sections • 43 lectures • 2h 36m total length

  • Preview01:17
  • Preview02:21

  • Preview03:54
  • Redundancy
    04:07
  • Phoney Intensifiers
    06:28
  • Stretchers
    04:30
  • Thickeners
    04:09
  • Answers to Some Questions
    04:59
  • Exercise #1
    1 question
  • Exercise #2
    1 question

  • Verbs Introduction
    03:27
  • Preview05:32
  • Weak Verbs
    04:38
  • Dead Verbs
    05:01
  • The Consequences of Dead Verbs
    04:54
  • Exercise #3
    1 question

  • Active Voice Introduction
    02:11
  • Active Voice
    04:06
  • Passive Voice
    06:19
  • The Morality of Passive Voice
    Preview04:20
  • Passive Voice Exceptions
    03:16
  • Exercise #4
    1 question

  • Nouns Introduction
    01:31
  • Nouns
    04:38
  • Preview04:04
  • Pronouns
    02:32
  • When Pronouns Go Wrong
    05:28
  • Exercise #5
    1 question

  • Original Writing Introduction
    04:15
  • Clichés
    04:52
  • Why Do People Use Clichés?
    02:48
  • Preview02:24
  • Being Original
    02:02
  • Exercise #6
    1 question
  • Exercise #7
    1 question

  • Preview04:38
  • Surface and Under the Surface Parallelism
    02:53
  • Verb Series
    03:02
  • Noun Series
    02:12
  • Adjective Series
    02:10
  • Adverb Series
    02:42
  • Preposition Series
    02:42
  • Multiple Element Series
    04:33
  • Parallelism Conclusion
    02:17
  • Exercise #8
    1 question
  • Exercise #9
    1 question

  • Sentence Variation Principles
    03:59
  • Sentence Patterns
    05:18
  • Preview02:53
  • Long Sentences
    04:20
  • The Variation of Long and Short for Effect
    02:19
  • Exercise #10
    1 question

  • Big Discounts on My Other Courses
    00:49

Instructor

Duncan Koerber
University Professor
Duncan Koerber
  • 4.5 Instructor Rating
  • 2,930 Reviews
  • 13,947 Students
  • 9 Courses

Dr. Duncan Koerber has taught writing and communications courses for the past 12 years at eight Canadian universities to thousands of students.

Oxford University Press recently published his writing textbook, Clear, Precise, Direct: Strategies for Writing (2015). Available on Amazon, the book considers the seven most common errors (interfering factors) in writing and how to improve them (enhancing factors). His second book, Crisis Communication in Canada, is now out on Amazon from University of Toronto Press. 

Currently a professor at Brock University in Ontario, Canada, Duncan Koerber worked for nearly 10 years in reporting and editing roles for the London Free Press, the Mississauga News, and the University of Toronto Medium. He has freelanced for magazines and newspapers, including the Toronto Star.

Duncan Koerber has been a successful freelance editor, earning a 95% success rating on Upwork. 

Duncan Koerber has a bachelor of arts degree in English, Professional Writing, and Political Science from the University of Toronto (2001), a master of arts degree in Journalism from the University of Western Ontario (2003), and a Ph.D. in Communication and Culture from York University and Ryerson University (2009).

His academic writing, which focuses on media and journalism history, writing pedagogy, and public relations crisis communication, has been published in the Canadian Journal of Communication, Public Relations Review, the Journal of Canadian Studies, Journalism History, Media History, Composition Studies, Canadian Journal of Media Studies, and Sport History Review.

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