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EFFICIENT WRITING AWR102

Duration (approx) 100 hours
Qualification
Statement of Attainment

Why Study Efficient Writing?

Effective and efficient writing focusses on sending information clearly and precisely.  The writing should be accurate and concise.

It should be aimed at a specific target audience and have a specific purpose. 

To write effectively and efficiently, you should have a clear organisation of your writing, use precise language and avoid unnecessary words and jargon.

The writing should be easily understood.

This course will help you to write more efficiently and effectively. Communication and writing skills are highly regarded across all employment sectors. In this course, you will learn how to define purpose in your writing, write material that serves both your purpose and the reader, and create material that shines.

Who Is This Course Suitable For?

The course is suitable for anyone wanting to improve their writing and communication skills for professional, business, and personal writing. Learn to write in clear, concise English and employ other principles of efficient writing. Excellent for administrative professionals, job seekers, and more.

What Will You Learn in This Course?

Learn to write well.

  • Useful in all aspects of life.
  • Improve your job applications, reports and more
  • Improve your basic writing skills.
  • Learn to write clearly and concisely.
  • Communicate without ambiguity.
  • Understand the writing rules.

This course is suitable for professional/career development, CPD or personal interest.

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Course Content

There are 6 lessons in this course:

  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 grammatical errors: comma splices, fragmented sentences, dangling modifiers, etc
    • Sentence construction
    • Types of sentence: declarative, interrogative, exclamatory, etc
    • Sentance structure
    • Constructing sentences
    • Combining sentences
    • Expanding basic sentences
    • Adding modifying words, phrases or clauses.
    • Linking words or phrases
  3. Clear Wording
    • Introduction
    • Common causes of confusion: homophones, 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 problems contributing 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

Each lesson culminates in an assignment which is submitted to the school, marked by the school's tutors and returned to you with any relevant suggestions, comments, and if necessary, extra reading.

Course Aims

  • Define the nature and scope of writing.
  • Discuss the way written sentences and paragraphs are properly structured.
  • Develop an increased capacity to write clearly.
  • Learn to write concisely.
  • Develop improved punctuation skills.
  • Apply basic writing skills more efficiently in a range of situations.

Learning to Write Better is Learning to Communicate More Effectively

If you want to write efficiently, you need to understand and follow the conventions and rules of language. 

Language is made up of different types of words and the ways in which different words should and should not be used are well defined according to different uses.

Sentences are compilations of words, and paragraphs are compilations of sentences. This course doesn't just tell you what the rules of efficient and effective writing are. It guides and reinforces your learning to a point where you are well on the path to using them unconsciously. When writing properly becomes automatic; the things you write will be clearer and more natural.

Many people struggle in adulthood to develop good writing skills. Poor writing skills can affect your job and career prospects.  This course will help you to improve your existing writing.  You can study at your own pace at a time and location that suits you.  

Let us help you write better - a skill that can help in so many different parts of your life.

What Next?

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Meet some of our academics

John MasonMr Mason has worked 45+ years in Writing, Education, Horticulture and Recreation. His experience in both public & private sectors is extensive; particularly across Australia and England.
Jade SciasciaBiologist, Business Coordinator, Government Environmental Dept, Secondary School teacher (Biology); Recruitment Consultant, Senior Supervisor in Youth Welfare, Horse Riding Instructor (part-completed) and Boarding Kennel Manager. Jade has a B.Sc.Biol, Dip.Professional Education, Cert IV TESOL, Cert Food Hygiene.
Tracey Jones (writing)Tracey has enjoyed creative writing since she was a child. She has had several short stories published and a novella. She is also a keen writer of children's stories and poetry. She has also written many academic and non-fiction books in the fields of psychology, sociology, child development, writing and marketing.


Check out our eBooks

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