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This one-day course teaches participants how to write effective briefing notes for use in corporations or government agencies. Participants will learn how to write concise and comprehensive documents that summarize complex source materials.
If your organization uses specific templates or models for briefing notes, we can incorporate those into our standard instructional materials.
Participants are also encouraged to bring sample documents to class for review and critique.
This seminar is designed for executive assistants, project leaders, managers, and anyone responsible for writing issue, action, or status summarizations that provide briefings.
Use the following resources to assist you in writing briefing notes:
The online version of the seminal dictionary of the English language, the Oxford English Dictionary
Excellent and fast translation dictionary
Contains over 40,000 entries and is based on the best selling Newbury House Dictionary of American English; provides simple and clear definitions, and a wealth of sample sentences, idioms, and a wide array of cultural facts and figures
Web site by Merriam-Webster that features a dictionary and thesaurus
American English dictionary and thesaurus contains 50,000 headwords, and very precisely defined and hyperlinked synonyms
An online lexical reference system whose design is inspired by current psycholinguistic theories of human lexical memory; English nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs organized into synonym sets, each representing one underlying lexical concept
William Strunk's 1918 classic, The Elements of Style
Contains scores of digital handouts on grammar and English usage, over 170 computer-graded quizzes, recommendations on writing - from basic problems in subject-verb agreement and the use of articles to exercises in parallel structures and help with argumentative essays, and a way to submit questions about grammar and writing
A newspaper editor's thorough and opinionated look at grammar and style questions.
The best starting place for Internet research
A great collection of resources for all types of business research
Links to writing software in every imaginable category
Cypress Media Group presents this seminar as an on-site offering at your work location or at an off-site location of your choice. We can customize this training program to suit your precise training needs.
For economic reasons, this seminar is only offered to groups of roughly three or more people with the same training needs. If you have a group with similar training needs, please call us at 770-640-9918 or E-mail to discuss your interest.
We do not offer this course as an open enrollment public offering for individuals. If you have fewer than three participants who are interested in this course, the cost will be the same as for a larger group.
Please call us at 770-640-9918 or E-mail to discuss your interest.