Business Writing

Lesson 8: Introducing your Business

Keeping up your Writing Skills

Having completed this course, you should feel more confident about your writing skills and how you can use them in the business world. So what now? Some of the lessons here have covered skills which you should be able to apply immediately, like letter writing. Others have dealt with topics which will present themselves less often. How can you practice day to day to ensure that your skills stay sharp?

As mentioned previously, the best way to maintain and improve your writing ability is to read. In the case of business writing, you should make sure to read plenty of other companies' publications. This applies not only to material which you are sent in the course of your working day, but also to posters which you see in the street; adverts in newspapers and on television; and leaflets which you receive in the post. Whenever you have time, sit down with some of this material and look through it for mistakes. Think about how you might have prepared some parts of it better. You should also look out for things which have been done well, which you can copy.

Learning to write well is a process which continues throughout life. Now that you understand the basics, you are ready to develop at whatever pace is most suitable for you. This is only the beginning.

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