Philip Vassallo, Ed.D.
Phone: 732-721-7577 w Fax: 732-727-7491
E-mail: Vassallo@aol.com w Internet: www.PhilVassallo.com
Business Grammar
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Audience
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Administrative and support staff responsible for writing, editing, and proofreading work-related documents.
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Duration
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Two days
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Description
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This interactive program relies on individual and collaborative exercises designed to establish a foundation from which administrative and support staff can build their grammar skills. Participants will work on numerous exercises in sentence structure, pronoun and verb usage, word choice, and punctuation
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Scope
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· Check for the most frequent sentence problems
· Review tricky pronouns
· Practice correcting sentences for pronoun usage and agreement
· Learn the complete range of verb tenses
· Correct common verb errors
· Discuss the most commonly confused words
· Edit for proper word usage
· Review rules for punctuation, capitalization, abbreviation, and numbers
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Materials
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· Business Grammar course manual
· The Art of On-the-Job Writing by Philip Vassallo
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Enrollment
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Limited to 12 participants
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Consultant
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Philip Vassallo
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Assessment
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Pre-course customized 4S Writing assessments of participant-submitted samples (add one-half consulting day)
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