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The Business Writing Course

Advance Your Career by Improving Your Business Writing

Created byAlan Sharpe
IntermediateUpdated Jun 13, 2025

What You'll Learn

  • check_circleMaster the number-one skill that’s indispensable to leadership: communication.
  • check_circleImprove your writing, one of the “threshold skills” for hiring and promotion among salaried employees.
  • check_circleAdvance your career. Half of all companies take writing ability into account when making promotion decisions.
  • check_circleImprove your ability to sell your ideas to others, whether team members, management or investors.

About This Course

Your ability to write clearly and professionally can make or break your career. Whether you're aiming to get hired, get promoted, or just want to become more confident in your communication, The Business Writing Course is your essential guide. Taught by veteran writing instructor Alan Sharpe, who has over 30 years of experience in writing and teaching, this course is packed with proven strategies to help you write clearly, concisely, and persuasively in any business context.

You'll learn the most common writing mistakes professionals make—and how to avoid them. Through four focused modules, you’ll be guided step-by-step from organizing your thoughts to polishing your final draft.

Course Content

5 activities • 29 videos • duration: 4h 10m

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Introduction to effective business writing-Part15 videos • 46 min
  • videocamLesson 1: Avoid the bureaucratic style
    Duration 11:13
  • videocamLesson 2: Six qualities of good business writing
    Duration 10:18
  • videocamLesson 3: Adopt the "you-centered" business style
    Duration 10:38
  • videocamLesson 4: Watch your tone
    Duration 9:51
  • videocamLesson 5: Four types of sentences
    Duration 4:46
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Organize your thoughts-Part17 videos • 1 quiz • 1.1 hours
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Write your draft-Part110 videos • 1 quiz • 1.5 hours
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Edit your draft-Part17 videos • 1 quiz • 50 min
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Edit your draft-Part21 quiz

Your Instructor

Alan Sharpe

Business-writing instructor

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Alan Sharpe is a business-writing instructor and author who teaches more than 20,000 business professionals around the world to advance their careers and their businesses with effective writing.

Credit Information

Is this course eligible for my CPD requirements as a Canadian CPA?

Provincial regulators of CPAs in Canada do not require that independent providers of CPD be approved to offer courses. Instead, individual CPAs are responsible for assessing whether a CPD activity meets their requirements, and may take activities from any source provided those requirements are met.

Every course offered on LearnFormula is delivered by a qualified subject matter expert or learning organization, and advances learning objectives that are relevant to the responsibilities or professional competencies of Canadian CPAs. All activities on LearnFormula are quantifiable in terms of hours, and are also verifiable, in that users receive documented evidence of their attendance via a certificate of completion after finishing a course (and this certificate is stored by LearnFormula indefinitely). Nearly 100,000 Canadian CPAs successfully satisfy their CPD requirements via LearnFormula on an annual basis.

What Students Are Saying

4.5 out of 5
Student's Choice
34 reviews
  • BC
    Binh C.
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    Good learning.

  • LW
    Lorraine W.
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    Useful course.

  • SA
    Shabana A.
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    June 2025 I really like courses broken into a bunch of smaller topics/videos. It makes it much easier to set it aside and pick it up as you have time. Each session was informative and focused; coincidently the exact thing he was explaining you should in your writing. The presenter in this case took a fairly dry topic, kept it up beat and was even funny in places making it an enjoyable course.

  • LB
    Lynn B.
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    One of the best trainers I have seen. I learned a lot from this course. Thank you.

Frequently Asked Questions

We are a registered provider with 300+ associations and regulatory bodies worldwide. We operate across 27 global markets including Canada, the US, Australia, and the UK. Every course page clearly displays its specific accreditations. Upon completion, you receive a professional certificate that can be validated online. Our certificates include all necessary accreditation details, credit hours, and completion dates, and are formatted specifically to meet the submission requirements of most global regulatory bodies.

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