Business Writing Series: Writing and Revising for Maximum Impact 2024
2.00 Credits
Member Price $89
Non-Member Price $119
Overview
Accountants with good writing skills are more likely to get promoted. What makes good writing good? Short, concise sentences with powerful, energetic verbs and lean word choices. This fast-paced, interactive course teaches you five principles for writing strong sentences. The principles include writing with verbs, using an active voice, simplifying sentences, and focusing on the reader. You will also explore three essential editing principles that provide quick and accurate correction. By taking this course, you will upgrade your capabilities in writing clearly and concisely.
Highlights
- Business writing
- Practice development
- Editing
- Coaching others to write well
Prerequisites
None
Designed For
Young professionals, supervisors and managers.
Objectives
- Replace unnecessary nouns with verbs in a sentence.
- Change the passive voice to the active voice.
- Remove unnecessary words from a sentence.
- Simplify a complex sentence.
- Revise a sample sentence.
- Create strategies for editing
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