As with the other Business Writing Center courses, the course has lessons like a college course. It is self-pacing, so you decide when to work. Your instructor will coach you through learning any skills you haven't mastered.
You will purchase a grammar textbook from Amazon.com.
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.
Course Content
List of usage areas covered in the Basic Grammar for Business course:
Developing clear, correct sentences
- Writing subjects and verbs correctly
- Avoiding dangling and misplaced modifiers
- Using adverbs correctly
- Using modifiers correctly
- Avoiding passive voice
Using punctuation correctly
- Using apostrophes correctly
- Using semicolons correctly
- Using periods after polite questions
- Using dashes correctly
- Using quotation marks correctly
- Using colons correctly
- Avoiding comma overuse
- Commas with who and which
- Commas in a series
- Commas with parenthetical elements
- Commas with introductory elements
- Commas with dates
- Commas with coordinating conjunctions
- Commas with conjunctive Adverbs
- Commas with conjunctions
- Commas with restrictive and non-restrictive clauses
- Commas with appositives
Using other usage skills correctly
- Capitalizing correctly
- Using numbers correctly
- Keep constructions parallel
- Using "who" and "whom" correctly
Proofreading effectively
- Proofreading principles
- Proofreading techniques