The UBC Micro-certificate in Writing and Communication Skills for the Workplace provides essential writing skills to help enhance and grow your career.
Writing and Communicating in the Workplace: Grammar and Style
Build foundational skills you can apply to your professional writing. Learn to avoid common pitfalls and mistakes, and refine and elevate your own and others’ writing.
By the end of this program you’ll be able to:
- Detect and fix grammatical errors in your writing and produce clear, concise prose
- Apply fundamental rules of writing to produce text that is correct, coherent, emphatic and elegant
- Revise text by analyzing and diagnosing common problems
- Identify and correct inconsistencies and weaknesses in your own writing and in others’
- Apply processes for editing and proofreading
- Understand how tools such as style guides, style sheets and dictionaries can make you a better, faster editor
- Analyze your readers’ needs in a variety of contexts and understand how to use plain language to meet those needs
Writing and Communicating in the Workplace: Business Communication
Learn how to write informatively, concisely and precisely. Gain skills and strategies to deliver your message effectively and persuasively in your job.
By the end of this program you’ll be able to:
- Write purposeful and effective emails, letters, reports, proposals and other complex documents
- Identify common pitfalls and weak points in business writing and gain strategies to address and correct them
- Use different approaches to addressing business, technical and non-technical audiences
- Develop an influential PowerPoint presentation
- Write three kinds of briefs: meeting preparation, informational, and input into decisions
- Structure and deliver an effective oral briefing for a manager, colleague or decision-maker
The online, part-time classes provide flexible and convenient learning opportunities to fit into your schedule. Experienced instructors provide thoughtful and thorough feedback on assignments so you can practise, apply and grow your skills. Through the program, connect with a community of likeminded learners for feedback and relationship building.
Who is This Program For?
This program is for anyone who wants to build foundational writing skills that can be applied to their work, or anyone who writes or presents regularly as part of their job.
All levels are welcome. Those with beginner to advanced writing skills can benefit from the program. The thorough, well-crafted courses in the program offer new concepts and approaches that can round out your writing skills.