The Business Writing Center offers the individualized course, BWC110 Basic Writing Skills Tutorial, to help business people learn how to use correct grammar, punctuation, sentence structure, and spelling. The course is very effective in teaching the skills because it is individualized to suit each student's needs.

      In it, an instructor evaluates writing samples, identifying every usage problem and correcting each to show how it should have been written. The instructor then lists the sentences with the same type of problem together so the student can see the way in which he or she is consistently making the same error. With each list of sentences, the instructor includes explanations of the problems and assignments from the grammar textbook. The student has unlimited access to the instructor to ask questions while reading the assignments and studying the corrected sentences.

      The instructor then administers an online quiz that presents ten of the student's own sentences from the original document with the errors still in them. The quiz is timed, so the student must know how to write the sentences without the errors to pass the quiz. If the quiz score is low, the instructor helps the student learn the skills until he or she passes the quiz.

      That process continues through five writing samples. The course is self-pacing, so the student decides when to work.

BWC110 Basic Writing Skills Tutorial

  In the BWC520 Coaching through Writing Actual Documents course, the instructor evaluates drafts of actual documents and coaches the business person or team through revising them to produce a polished final draft. The documents may be e-mail, memos, letters, proposals, personnel documents, or any type of report. The participant learns while producing high-quality final documents.

BWC520 Coaching through Writing Actual Documents

he Business Writing Center offers BWC510 Individualized Writing Course to allow business people to choose specific needs or types of writing on which to focus. The participant works with the instructor to design the course of study at the beginning of the course, but the design may change at any time.

      Business people have developed individualized courses in newsletter-article writing, writing workshop training materials, writing speeches, writing in three or four media their jobs require, and a host of other areas. Some have asked to combine lessons they want from several Business Writing Center courses. Any options for writing training are available through this course.

BWC510 Individualized Writing Course

The BWC600 Individualized Coaching for Managers and Executives is designed for managers and executives who have special needs for their writing and unique constraints in approaching training. This course is taught by Dr. Hogan, who has been a Manager of Communications, faculty trainer, and consultant to upper-level management.

      Any options for writing training are also available through this course.

BWC600 Writing Coaching for Managers and Executives

      If you have questions about the courses, e-mail the center at or call the Center at 1-800-501-9440