Writing school training courses in Beaverton, OR (public, in-house or online)

Learn how to use writing to effectively communicate information.

Objective :
After completing this course, students will know how to: - Improve writing skills by using writing guidelines and following the writing process to write effective sentences and paragraphs. - Write effective business reports and letters, e-mail messages, and opinionated messages such as apology letters, negative messages, and persuasive messages. - Write various types of proposals and keep them focused on the...

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Tailored to meet the individual writing needs of management professionals, this course reviews and practices the English grammar, punctuation, and stylistics that challenge the advanced-level non-native and bilingual speaker of English. Using a highly interactive format, this course addresses both electronic and traditional managerial writing tasks with the goal of clearer, more concise business communication.

Use cases drive an object-oriented development process. They are part of the new Unified Modeling Language standard for developing object-oriented software. Together, with process descriptions and other requirements, they describe a software system from an external perspective. This 2 day hands-on course teaches practical techniques for writing clear, concise usage descriptions, capturing non-usage requirements, and relating the two. Each student will have their own computer to assist in buildin...

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Writing Children’s Books school covers the following:
The World of Children’s Literature
Beginning the Writing Process
Writing Non-Fiction and Writing for Magazines
Developing a Writing Project Proposal
Creating Characters
Developing Plot
Saying It with Style
Writing the First Draft
Revising and Rewriting:
Editing and Proofreading
Submitting Your Manuscript

This course will build upon a general understanding of good writing and composition. Students will be introduced to internal research memoranda, points, authorities, and the Uniform System of Citation. Students will also be required to develop and demonstrate legal research skills and will become familiar with both law library research and electroinc research tools. These skills will be further added upon and utilized in Advanced Legal Research & Writing.