Effective Business Writing

Fall 2018

Degrees and Certificates

Tuition and Fees

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Program Description

Students who earn this certificate will build on essential writing skills, including the ability to make appropriate choices in style, grammar, and mechanics.  Courses included in this certificate will build the skills necessary to create effective messages with clearly defined purposes for target audiences both on and off-line, utilizing writing styles and communication strategies appropriate for various channels and modes of communication.  Toward that end, students will learn to perform research when appropriate to support clearly defined business purposes and to understand and implement both textual and non-textual styles of communication.  Students who are awarded this certificate will earn at least a 3.0 grade in all courses.

Program Learning Outcomes

  1. Identify and analyze audiences, and define purposes for a variety of traditional business messages and web writing tasks.
  2. Describe the differences between successful writing for the web and writing traditional business messages and effectively implement appropriate strategies for each.
  3. Use appropriate non-textual communication (visual design, images, sound, etc.) effectively to reach business audiences and achieve business purposes.
  4. Use appropriate style, language, spelling, grammar, punctuation and other mechanics for traditional and web messages.
  5. Work collaboratively to produce effective messages in groups and participate effectively in a peer-review process to provide formative feedback.
  6. Conduct research online and in the library and gather data to propose problem solutions.
  7. Use presentation software to create and present an oral report.

Certificate - SCC

Offered at Locations:  Spokane Community College

First Quarter
BT   272Business Correspondence 15
BT   273Business Research and Report Writing 5
BT   274Business Writing for the Web 15
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15 credits are required for the Certificate
1BT 272 prerequisite writing score of at least 80 percent or successful completion of BT 105 with at least a 2.0 grade.

Disclaimer: The college cannot guarantee courses will be offered in the quarters indicated. During the period this guide is in circulation, there may be curriculum revisions and program changes. Students are responsible for consulting the appropriate academic unit or adviser for more current and specific information. the information in this guide is subject to change and does not constitute an agreement between the college and the student.