In the BWC520 Coaching through Writing Actual Documents course, the instructor evaluates drafts of documents you're writing in the work setting. It is an ideal way to polish the documents you're writing while learning the skills you need to enhance your writing. You might enroll in the course when you have a report or proposal you must write, and you want it to be highest quality to achieve your goals.

In this course, the instructor writes comments on all aspects of the writing, including language, grammar, clarity, organization, effectiveness, sentences, words, and style. The instructor then coaches you through revising the documents to produce high-quality, polished final drafts. During this course, the instructor will have you read lessons from any of the 45 Business Writing Center courses that will help you learn to become a more proficient writer.

Course Time: You will go through the course at your own pace, so you could complete it within a few weeks. However, you have up to four months to complete the course so you can fit the study time into your schedule. All lessons must be finished within the four-month period.

The Individualized Writing for Nonnative Speakers of English course is for people who have a good command of the English language, but have basic usage problems resulting from speaking English as a second language. The course is a tutorial. Your instructor will evaluate samples of your writing, identify errors in language, grammar, punctuation, spelling, and sentence structure, show you how the text should be written, coach you through learning the skills, and evaluate your learning as you progress through the course. The course gives you the focused training you need to write correct business English.

You will send writing samples to your instructor. Your instructor will read each sample thoroughly, identify skills you need to learn, list the sentences with problems in each area with corrections showing how they should have been written, assign readings from the grammar textbook, answer any questions you have about the skill, have you practice the skill, and give you an online quiz containing sentences from your original writing sample that you must correct in ten minutes to be sure you have learned the skills. You will go through four cycles of this work on your writing skills. You have unlimited access to the instructor in the course. You may purchase the grammar textbook we use from a bookseller such as Amazon.com. However, the textbook is not required for the course. You will use online training materials to learn the skills.

Course Time: You will go through the course at your own pace, so you could complete it within a few weeks. However, you have up to four months to complete the course so you can fit the study time into your schedule. All lessons must be finished within the four-month period.

The BWC140 Writing Coaching for Executive Nonnative Speakers of English course is oriented toward executives and managers who are nonnative speakers of English and want the individual attention and focused training that will help them write clear documents and polish their language usage. Your instructor will evaluate your writing by reading samples or your writing that you provide. The instructor will determine what you need to learn to be able to write high-quality business documents. The course will teach you the skills. This course includes both training in how to structure clear business documents and in language usage. Course Time: You will go through the course at your own pace, so you could complete it within a few weeks. However, you have up to four months to complete the course so you can fit the study time into your schedule. All lessons must be finished within the four-month period.

The Individualized Business Writing Training course is developed based on the trainee's needs and/or wishes to pursue an area of writing skills. This course is taught by Dr. Robert Hogan, director of the Business Writing Center and author of Explicit Business Writing: Best Practices for the Twenty-First Century. You may have a clear conception of what you would like to learn, or may ask the instructor to diagnose your writing and develop an individualized course of study. You may combine portions of existing writing courses. For example, one business person wanted to learn business writing skills and how to edit. The instructor combined lessons from the two courses into an individualized course of study.

Course Time: You will go through the course at your own pace, so you could complete it within a few weeks. However, you have up to four months to complete the course so you can fit the study time into your schedule. All lessons must be finished within the four-month period.

BWC130 Individualized Writing for Nonnative Speakers of English and BWC210 Business Writing Skills perfectly complement each other. The combination provides language and grammar training with training in how to structure clear, effective, professional email, memos, letters, and reports. The courses are more in depth than the BWC85 and BWC95 courses, for nonnative speakers of English who want to improve both language and business writing.

You will send writing samples to your instructor. Your instructor will read each sample thoroughly, identify skills you need to learn, list the sentences with problems in each area with corrections showing how they should have been written, assign readings from the grammar textbook, answer any questions you have about the skill, have you practice the skill, and give you an online quiz containing sentences from your original writing sample that you must correct in ten minutes to be sure you have learned the skills. You will go through four cycles of this work on your writing skills. You have unlimited access to the instructor in the course.

Enrolling in both of these courses at the same time results in a discount on tuition from $640 to $608.

You may purchase the grammar textbook we use from a bookseller such as Amazon.com. However, the textbook is not required for the course. You will use online training materials to learn the skills.

Course Time: You will go through the course at your own pace, so you could complete it within a few weeks. However, you have up to four months to complete the course so you can fit the study time into your schedule. All lessons must be finished within the four-month period.

BWC110 Basic Grammar Skills Tutorial and BWC210 Business Writing Skills perfectly complement each other. The combination provides grammar training and training in how to structure clear, effective, professional email, memos, letters, and reports. The courses are more in depth than the BWC85 and BWC95 courses, for business people who want to have thorough mastery of their business writing. Enrolling in both of these courses at the same time results in a discount on tuition from $640 to $608. You may purchase the grammar textbook we use from a bookseller such as Amazon.com. However, the textbook is not required for the course. You will use online training materials to learn the skills.

Course Time: You will go through the course at your own pace, so you could complete it within a few weeks. However, you have up to four months to complete each course so you can fit the study time into your schedule. All lessons must be finished within the four-month period for each course. Combined, you have eight months to complete the two courses.