This course covers business structures, planning and organizing a business, purchasing an existing business or franchise, legal structure, cash flow, marketing, and changes businesses will encounter in the next five to ten years. This course introduces students to effective written business communication with classroom writings and study of text. Student will learn to compose effective business writings including formatting, grammar, appearance, types of letters and reports. This course focuses on the learning and application of an alphabetic shorthand system. It requires time and memorization to learn.
Daily practice is required to become proficient.
This course focuses on the development of proofreading skills for effective written business communication. Rules and proofreading assignments are presented in order of increasing difficulty, from simple keyboarding errors to errors in grammar, punctuation, capitalization, number expression, format, and sentence construction. Students first learn the rules and then apply them to graded exercises. Classroom focus is on the student's understanding of interpersonal relationships with emphasis on communications, motivation, leadership and personal attitude. The concepts learned in this course will be applied in Oral Communications where students work in teams to accomplish assigned tasks.