Business Writing Series: Highlights of Grammar and Punctuation 2024
2.00 Credits
Member Price $89
Non-Member Price $119
Overview
People often judge our intelligence, professionalism, and competence in our grammar and punctuation. Don’t let simple errors undermine your messaging or hamper your organization’s ability to move ahead. This fast-paced webinar will teach you the secrets to common grammar and punctuation issues, including singular-plural agreement, sentence structure, and dangling modifiers. You’ll review the right usage of the comma, hyphen, apostrophe, and semicolon. In addition, you can ask the instructor questions about any aspect of this topic. This program moves quickly as terrifying topics in school become easy to understand.
Highlights
- Common grammar errors and how to correct them
- Common punctuation errors and how to correct them
Prerequisites
None
Designed For
Young professionals, staff and managers.
Objectives
- Identify independent and dependent clauses in a sentence
- Apply gender-appropriate language
- Correct errors in singular-plural agreement
- Correct dangling modifiers
- Correct errors in comma usage
- Correct errors in the use of the apostrophe, hyphen and semicolon
Preparation
None
Leader(s):
Leader Bios
Elizabeth Danziger, CalCPA Education Foundation
Elizabeth Brenner Danziger, founder of Worktalk Communications Consulting, enables people to achieve success through better writing. Improved writing means greater productivity, better customer service, quicker adoption of internal initiatives, fewer misunderstandings, faster completion of key work and enhanced relationships. Ms. Danziger has trained businesspeople throughout the U.S. and has worked with executives from many major corporations. She brings 28 years of experience to her work. Danziger’s clients include a wide range of businesses, including professional service firms such as Sullivan and Cromwell; Nixon Peabody; Ernst and Young; PragerMetis; RBZ; CohnReznick; Miller, Kaplan, Arase and others. Ms. Danziger’s clients develop a keen insight into their product or service and see how to convey their message clearly. They learn techniques that help them build more powerful relationships through the written word. In addition, they learn practical ways to get to the point and write successfully. In email seminars, participants master three elements of effective email: clear writing, good judgment and efficient productivity. Ms. Danziger received her B.A. from Pomona College in Claremont, California and holds a Certificate of Executive Education from the UCLA Anderson School of Business. She has written four books, the most recent of which is Get to the Point!, which was originally published by Random House and is now in its second edition. Her work has been published throughout the world.
Non-Member Price $119
Member Price $89