Good grammar is the foundation of clear writing and clear writing is essential for workplace communication. ChatGPT is increasingly used in the workplace to ensure accuracy in grammar, and punctuation. Mastering the foundations of good grammar, and the skills of using ChatGPT to edit and enhance your written communication will elevate your productivity at work.
For the foundations of good grammar, you will gain an in-depth understanding of the English sentence structure, subject-verb agreement, tense agreement, and voice agreement. You will also learn about the functions of different types of punctuation in the English grammar and how to use punctuation effectively.
After mastering the foundations of good grammar and punctuation, we will have a hands-on ChatGPT workshop. Guidance on setting up an account, using effective prompts to enhance business writing at the workplace, and evaluating the usefulness of ChatGPT will be covered.
This course will be beneficial for anyone who desires to write and present confidently in clear English, and keep up with the current digital landscape by learning to use ChatGPT to enhance workplace productivity.
After this workshop, you will be able to:
- Appreciate the importance of correct grammar
- Use various types of sentences effectively in your writing
- Avoid common grammatical errors
- Use punctuation with finesse
- Enhance your written productivity with ChatGPT
Outline
- Importance of grammar in the business context and at work
- Focus on sentences
- Three types of sentences
- Why it is important to use a variety of sentences in business documents
- How to use the different types of sentences appropriately
- Common issues associated with writing sentences
- Sentence fragments
- Run-on sentences
- Comma-splice
- Dangling modifiers
- Parallelism
- Focus on words
- Understand how to ensure subject-verb agreement in writing
- Pronoun agreement in writing
- Voice, tenses and mood agreement in writing
- Focus on punctuation
- Functions and correct usage of English punctuation
- Focus on spelling, word choice and capitalisation
- Understand more about the intricasies of the English grammar
- ChatGPT workshop, practise and review
- How to use effective prompts to aid in business writing and editing
- Small group practise using ChatGPT to enhance business writing
- Evaluating the usefulness of ChatGPT
