Sentence Combining Techniques

The professional sentence combining techniques course your team needs.

Our Courses are Customized for Your Team.

Business writing in the US is considerably less formal now, fueled in part by increased globalization and the need to communicate effectively across international borders. Due to this, writers often err on the side of formal writing with the goal of increasing their credibility, but doing so can have the opposite effect. This course teaches sentence combining techniques to help non-native speakers achieve a balance of simple, straightforward sentence structures and sentence variety to maximize reader engagement.

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:

Understand and compose “kernel” (“nuclear”) sentences
Understand and compose compound and complex sentences
Understand the utility of appositive phrases
Understand how emphasis is affected by information structure
Appropriately use active and passive voice functions

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.

Learn more about virtual training here.

Course Objectives:

Understand and compose “kernel” (“nuclear”) sentences
Understand and compose compound and complex sentences
Understand the utility of appositive phrases
Understand how emphasis is affected by information structure
Appropriately use active and passive voice functions

This was an excellent workshop. I learned so much and the facilitator made the material come alive. Thank you!

Lahoma T.
- 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 sentence combining concepts
Breakout sessions in which participants work collaboratively to apply sentence combining concepts and solve writing problems
Examples of your team’s rewritten workplace samples to illustrate learning concepts
Real-time feedback from the instructor on breakouts
Micro-learning sessions
Socratic discussion
Opportunities for participants to ask questions about sentence combining techniques

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 it isn’t impossible. In our customized workshops, your team will learn the skills needed to master writing business documents in English.