Two-Day Business Writing Workshop
(1.2 ceu)
Get your important points across quickly and spend less time getting started, drafting, and rewriting. This workshop shows you how to target readers, select and organize information, and use clear, concise language. You apply the techniques to job-related memos, e-mail, letters, reports, and other documents.
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Mon. Nov. 3, Berkeley
NATASHA TERK, M.A., is the president of Write It Well, an Oakland-based training and publishing company that specializes in helping people improve their business writing. Terk conducts customized workshops on professional writing skills, writing business e-mail, technical writing and editing, and other topics. She has developed customized onsite and online training programs and training products including facilitator guides. A trainer facilitator and evaluator, she serves on the Board of the International Association of Business Communicators.
- 2 meetings
- Nov. 3 and 6: Mon. and Thurs., 9 am-4 pm
- Berkeley: Room 208, UC Berkeley Extension, 1995 University Ave.
- $525 (EDP 308528)
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Textbook(s) for this course:
Note: Please purchase text at www.writeitwell.com
Professional Writing Skills
Author: Janis Fisher Chan
Mon. Nov. 3, San Francisco
MARGARET STEEN, M.J., is a Bay Area freelance writer and editor with more than 10 years of experience. Her work has been published in the Christian Science Monitor, Business 2.0, American Journalism Review, Stanford Business, and Network World and at www.HotJobs.com. She has also written and edited reports for large corporations, nonprofits, and universities. She has worked as a reporter for the San Jose Mercury News and as a copyeditor and editor for InfoWorld, a computer industry trade publication. She has taught courses on copyediting, writing skills, and business writing for UC Berkeley Extension and has taught staff development workshops on business writing. She received a bachelor's degree in comparative literature from Carleton College and a master's degree from the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism.
- 2 meetings
- Nov. 3 and 6: Mon. and Thurs., 9 am-4 pm
- San Francisco: Room 805, UC Berkeley Extension Downtown Center, 425 Market St., 8th Floor (enter on Fremont St.)
- $525 (EDP 308122)
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Textbook(s) for this course:
Writing That Works
Author: Kenneth Roman and Joel Raphaelson
Publisher: HarperResource
Edition: 3rd
Publication Year: 2000
ISBN: 0-06-095643-7
Sections closed for enrollment
Mon. July 21, Berkeley
NATASHA TERK, M.A., is the president of Write It Well, an Oakland-based training and publishing company that specializes in helping people improve their business writing. Terk conducts customized workshops on professional writing skills, writing business e-mail, technical writing and editing, and other topics. She has developed customized onsite and online training programs and training products including facilitator guides. A trainer facilitator and evaluator, she serves on the Board of the International Association of Business Communicators.
- 2 meetings
- July 21 and 24: Mon. and Thurs., 9 am-4 pm
- Berkeley: Room 202, UC Berkeley Extension, 1995 University Ave.
- $525 (EDP 304568)
Courses begin every month. A new edition of our catalog is published
three times a year in early April, July and December.