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Business Writing 1: Professional Business Writing Essentials (HS 11-9) with Maureen Ryan
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Writing ➤ 11 Series: Business Writing and Journalism
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High School
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Learn how to write professional correspondence, resumes, cover letters, critical communications, marketing writing, emails, social media posts, and more – and be prepared with what you'll need in high school and beyond!
Instructor Access (optional grading support) for Unlimited Access families is available for this course for $105!
Take "Business Writing 2: Foundations of Journalism" with this course, and earn 16 weeks of business writing credit.
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Scroll down to read the biography of each Instructor Access instructor.Video Instructor: Maureen Ryan
Course Description: Learn how to present yourself professionally in multiple areas of writing! Because business writing is distinctive from academic or creative writing, writing powerfully in your dealings with others in any organization, mastering business writing is essential. In this course, you’ll write letters and professional correspondence, create a professional resume, and write pieces critical to getting a job. Whether you plan on entering college, getting a job right out of high school, or building your own business as an entrepreneur right now, this course is for you.
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This course is designed by Erin Brown Conroy, MA, MFA.
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Business Writing 1: Professional Business Writing Essentials (HS 11-9) with Maureen Ryan
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Maureen Ryan
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Recorded
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Writing ➤ 11 Series: Business Writing and Journalism
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High School
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Erin M. Brown, MA, MFA, Aubrey Heki, Sharon Hamric-Weis, Bonnie Donlon, Donna Graziose, Sara Keefe, MA, Geralyn Rea, ME
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November 23rd, 2023 at 12:00 AM ET
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Recorded, free with subscription
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- Enhanced quiz security
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10-1 and 10-2 Vocabulary and Writing
12-1 and 12-2 Advanced Rhetoric and Writing
X-21 Story Writing: How to Write a Children’s Book– Picture Books, Readers, Chapter Books, and Middle-Grade Stories
X-22 Story Writing: Journaling to Become a Better Writer and Storyteller
- This material is only to be used for its intended purpose by active subscribers of Homeschool Connections or purchasers of the course. Any other use without explicit permission is in violation of the seventh commandment, and in violation of US and International copyright laws.
- You may print or download to your own storage extracts for your personal homeschool and non-commercial use only. Use for homeschool co-ops is permitted after contacting customer support and receiving written permission from Homeschool Connections.
- Upon completion of the course, you must delete all copies of course materials from any storage on which you saved permissible extracts.
Special notes
Instructor Access (optional grading support) for Unlimited Access families is available for this course for $105!
See the sidebar to the left for signup information!
There are currently two one-semester courses in the Business Writing series. Students can take Business Writing courses in any order.
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Prerequisites
High School Simplified Writing 1: Strong Foundational Writing Skills (HS 9-2) Take the prerequisite courses LIVE or through Unlimited Access. Alternative prerequisite: a passing assessment from the Aquinas Writing Advantage Assessment service.
Students should be able to use Microsoft Word competently. Your student will need Word 2007 or a later version or the ability to convert a document to a Word-compatible document.
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Outline
Course Outline:
Class 1: What is business writing? (Business Writing Overview)
Class 2: Writing business reports (business writing vs. academic writing), entrepreneurial writing, and professionalism in writing for business
Class 3: Writing formal letters: letters of complaint, opinion letters/letters to the editor, and letters of request
Class 4: Resumes: What they’re for, who uses them, and why you need one (writing to get a job)
Class 5: Resumes: your resume’s form, structure, and content
Class 6: Cover letters: what they are and how to write them
Class 7: Marketing writing: what it is, who uses it, and an introduction of how to write a text to sell
Class 8: “Little Writing Tasks” that are really big: social media and business; the business email; inter-office communication including the memo, organizational texts, and agendas; and organizational writing to keep on task
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Homework
LIVE and Instructor Access students will have weekly writing assignments with grading and direct feedback from the instructor (parents will grade Recorded students’ work). Expect an estimated two (2) to four (4) hours per week for homework outside of class time, depending on the student’s ability; homework includes reading, writing, and responding to feedback.
Maureen Ryan
maureen.ryanhsc@gmail.com
About Maureen Ryan
Maureen Ryan, BA, is a professional writer with more than twenty-five years of experience writing articles and creating content for a wide variety of news outlets, magazines, websites, and book publishers. She has taught writing across grade levels in classrooms and online for more than twelve years. Mrs. Ryan has a Bachelor of Arts in English and studied interactive learning at Teachers College, Columbia University.
As the executive editor for Scholastic.com, she helped refine the educational publisher’s interactive teaching tools and web-based lesson plans for grades PreK-12 and relaunched the site’s online writing tutorials hosted by award-winning authors. In addition to writing and mentoring, Mrs. Ryan has homeschooled her three children for more than 12 years. Having graduated her oldest, she continues to teach her younger two.
“I feel extremely blessed,” says Mrs. Ryan, “to be able to combine my love for teaching and writing with an opportunity to serve homeschool families.”
Mrs. Ryan is the Instructor Access one-on-one mentor/grader for the 6/7 Series Foundational courses (6/7-1, 6/7-2, 6/73, and 6/7-4); the 12-1 and 12-2 Advanced Rhetoric and Writing; the 11-9 course, Business Writing 1: Professional Writing Essentials; and the COLL-1 Essay Test Mastery course.
She teaches the following courses live:
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