--- title: Written Communication description: Written Communication focuses on expressing ideas clearly, concisely, and professionally in text. You will understand how to structure documents, adapt your tone for different audiences, and apply grammar and editing techniques to produce impactful written work. category: personal-development subcategory: communication difficulty: beginner, intermediate, advanced url: /subject/written-communication --- # Written Communication Written Communication focuses on expressing ideas clearly, concisely, and professionally in text. You will understand how to structure documents, adapt your tone for different audiences, and apply grammar and editing techniques to produce impactful written work. ## Available Resources 4 Books • 2 Courses • 2 Websites ## Courses ### 1. Business Writing Effective writing is a powerful tool in the business environment. Learn how to articulate your thoughts in a clear and concise manner that will allow your ideas to be better understood by your readers. Improve your business writing skill by learning to select and use appropriate formats for your audience, use the correct medium and adjust your writing style accordingly, as well as identify your objective and communicate it clearly. You'll also learn to spot, correct and avoid the most common writing pitfalls, and gain valuable experience analyzing, writing and revising a wide spectrum of business documents. From a simple email to a complete report, learn how to put good business writing to work for you. Upon completing this course, you will be able to: 1. Write effective business communications, including bad news, good news, persuasive writing, presentations, emails, memos, business reports and press releases 2. Learn how to edit and proofread business documents 3. Learn how to write for a global market **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://www.coursera.org/learn/business-writing **Tags:** business-writing, professional-communication, email, reports, editing ### 2. Writing in the Sciences **Author:** Kristin Sainani Stanford's online course on clear scientific prose, taught by Kristin Sainani. Covers cutting clutter, active voice, paragraph structure, the parts of a research manuscript, peer review, grant writing and publication ethics, so learners can draft and revise papers that read clearly. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Language:** English | **Duration:** 8 weeks of study, 3-5 hours/week | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://www.coursera.org/learn/sciwrite **Tags:** scientific-writing, academic-writing, manuscript-preparation, peer-review, grant-writing, editing ## Websites ### 1. Hemingway App A browser-based editor that highlights dense sentences, passive voice, adverbs and complex words, and scores readability by grade level. Using it, a writer can spot and rewrite the specific constructions that make prose hard to follow. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://hemingwayapp.com/ **Tags:** editing, readability, writing-tools, proofreading ### 2. purdue.edu/owl Purdue OWL is a comprehensive online writing resource offering free, in-depth guides on academic writing, grammar, and style, with extensive citation guidance (APA, MLA, Chicago). It includes handouts, exercises, and sample papers to help students improve writing for assignments and research. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://purdue.edu/owl **Tags:** websites, personal-development, communication ## Podcasts ### 1. Grammar Girl **Author:** QuickAndDirtyTips.com Five-time winner of Best Education Podcast in the Podcast Awards. Grammar Girl provides short, friendly tips to improve your writing and feed your love of the English language. Whether English is your first language or your second language, these grammar, punctuation, style, and business tips will make you a better and more successful writer. Grammar Girl is a Quick and Dirty Tips podcast. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Language:** en | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://www.quickanddirtytips.com/grammar-girl/ **Tags:** grammar, punctuation, style, english-usage, podcast ## Books ### 1. Style: Toward Clarity and Grace **Author:** Joseph M. Williams Williams diagnoses why prose reads as dense and supplies repeatable revision rules built on subjects-as-characters and verbs-as-actions. Readers can rewrite tangled sentences and paragraphs into clear ones instead of guessing from vague style advice. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid **Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/0226899152?tag=edmonddante07-20 **Tags:** prose-style, sentence-structure, revision, clarity, editing ### 2. On Writing Well **Author:** William Zinsser Zinsser's guide to nonfiction prose: cutting clutter, choosing verbs, controlling tone, and structuring articles, memoirs, and business writing. Working through it leaves you able to edit your own drafts down to what actually carries meaning. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid **Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/0062735233?tag=edmonddante07-20 **Tags:** books, personal-development, communication ### 3. Everybody Writes **Author:** Ann Handley Handley's handbook for people who write at work: a writing process, grammar and usage rules, and rules for blog posts, emails, landing pages, and social copy. Ends with publishing and content-quality checklists you can apply directly. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid **Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/1118905555?tag=edmonddante07-20 **Tags:** books, personal-development, communication ### 4. The Elements of Style **Author:** William Strunk Jr. Strunk's short manual of English usage: elementary rules of usage and composition, commonly misused words, and principles of plain style. This 2014 reprint carries the original text, so you get the prescriptive rules without E. B. White's later additions. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid **Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/1499142234?tag=edmonddante07-20 **Tags:** books, personal-development, communication --- *This content is part of Dantes.io - Your Treasure Map to Knowledge* *Curated by humans at Dantes.io. Personal study use welcome; republishing this curation requires permission (team@dantes.io).* View this page online: https://dantes.io/subject/written-communication