From the course: Tips for Better Business Writing
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Group your ideas before writing
From the course: Tips for Better Business Writing
Group your ideas before writing
- Whenever you write anything longer than a few sentences, it's important to organize your ideas by grouping them into categories before you start writing. These categories provide the reader with a roadmap, a pathway through the information, and a way to break up the journey. When we don't organize, the reader can't find a logical flow through our document and might think that we're disorganized. Think about it. Organization and grouping helps us navigate all kinds of things. Recipes are grouped into ingredients and steps. Menus have appetizers, mains, and desserts. And even phone numbers are broken up into area code, prefix, and number. In the same way, you can help your readers understand what you have to say by grouping ideas into related topics during the planning process. There's no single way to organize ideas. It's a highly individual process that emerges from the situation and from your own unique insights. Here are some ideas you can put in your pocket. You can organize by…
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