Effective Organizational and Rhetorical Strategies

Everything your team needs to know about using rhetorical strategies in professional writing.

Our Courses are Customized for Your Team.

When writing in English, writing style varies across settings, audiences, and purposes, just as in any other language. That’s why when you work in or with US corporations, it’s essential to learn a range of rhetorical styles to use in different business settings. In this course, participants will learn paragraph structures that are optimal for business writing and be introduced to a range of rhetorical strategies they can adapt to specific writing tasks.

Choose How to Take the Course:

Onsite
Virtual

In our instructor-led, customized onsite workshop, your team of non-native speakers will learn strategies to write documents that native English speakers will find easy to read and understand. The onsite courses are hosted at your facility and offered in one-, two-, or three-day sessions.

Learn more about onsite training here.

Course Objectives:

Recognize rhetorical patterns
Identify variations in strategies across social context, audience, and purpose
Compose optimal business writing paragraph structure
Understand word choice and sentence structure
Interpret and execute writing tasks
Recognize a range of business writing styles, including: problem-solution, comparison, process, and more.

In our instructor-led, customized virtual workshop, your team of non-native speakers will learn strategies to write documents that native English speakers will find easy to read and understand. These virtual sessions are offered in one-, two-, or three-hour sessions over time.

Learn more about virtual training here.

Course Objectives:

Recognize rhetorical patterns
Identify variations in strategies across social context, audience, and purpose
Compose optimal business writing paragraph structure
Understand word choice and sentence structure
Interpret and execute writing tasks
Recognize a range of business writing styles, including: problem-solution, comparison, process, and more.

The instructor’s style and the way she engages with the class makes the material enjoyable and applicable. The exercises give the opportunity to work on samples that come directly from your organization. Highly recommended!

Brian B.
- Verified Course Attendee

What To Expect

Before the Course

A deep dive by our analysts into your team’s documents
A customized proposal that outlines the topics we propose to cover based on this analysis
A discovery/planning call to ensure that our plan meets your vision
Pre- and post-class assessment (depending on the package you choose)

During the Course

In-class exercises that give participants opportunities to apply concepts
Breakout sessions in which participants work collaboratively to apply concepts and solve writing problems
Examples of your team’s rewritten workplace samples to illustrate concepts
Real-time feedback from the instructor on breakouts
Micro-learning sessions
Socratic discussion
Opportunities for participants to ask questions

After the course

Depending which option you choose, your team can expect:

Scores on their’ post-class assessment
Access to our digital library, which includes short videos, quizzes, and other resources
Access to Option 1 of one of our online courses
Office hours, so that participants can meet with the instructor, share work, and get personalized feedback
Forums, which is a chat room that participants can use to ask questions and get answers from our team of writing professionals
Personalized coaching and feedback

Why Improve Your Team’s Business Writing Skills?

Communicating effectively in English as a non-native speaker can be challenging, but isn’t impossible. In our customized workshops, your team will learn the skills to master writing business documents in English.