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Business Writing

Do you want to become a better writer?

This certificate will improve your writing for both traditional and online communication channels. With this certificate, you will build on essential writing skills, including audience analysis, grammar and mechanics, style and tone, drafting and editing, and professional research. Classes explore the skills necessary to create effective messages for web and print audiences. You’ll learn to craft clear, quality messages to your customers, clients, employees, and other business audiences.

Students who are awarded this certificate will earn at least a 3.0 grade in all courses.

  1. Analyze the audience and purpose for a variety of business messages and web writing tasks.
  2. Develop effective business communications emphasizing quantitative reasoning and equity, diversity, and inclusion.
  3. Use appropriate style, language, spelling, grammar, punctuation and other mechanics for business messages.
  4. Collaborate with others to provide and receive constructive feedback.
  5. Demonstrate information literacy by using professional databases to gather credible information and propose solutions for organizational problems.   

Breaking Ground on Your Pathway


Placement

Math placement is not required for this program.
English placement is not required for this program.

Plan Your Courses

Meet with our counselors to customize this plan just for you. You can also search the quarterly schedule for class days and times.

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Total Program Credits: 15


Program Courses

First Quarter

Course ID
Course Title
Credits
BT 272
Business Correspondence  
5
BT 274
Business Writing for the Web  
5
Total Credits
 
10
 

Second Quarter

Course ID
Course Title
Credits
BT 273
Business Research and Report Writing  
5
Total Credits
 
5
 

  • Tuition

  • Resident

    $
    N/A

  • Non-Resident

    $
    N/A

  • International

    $
    N/A

  • Avg. Books

    $
    N/A

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Ronda.Moorhead@scc.spokane.edu
509-533-7389

Shilo Stuart

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509-533-7490