Course

MBA 567: Professional Business Writing

Time limit: 60 days

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Course Description

Master the art of crafting clear, compelling business communications across diverse formats. You’ll learn to create impactful executive summaries, proposals, reports, and digital communications. Features intensive practice with precision writing techniques and messaging frameworks.

 

Course Objectives

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

  • Apply principles of clarity, precision, and audience-centered writing to produce professional business documents that communicate efficiently and credibly.
  • Construct high-impact executive documents — including executive summaries, proposals, and formal reports — using appropriate structure, evidence, and persuasive framing.
  • Adapt written communication style, tone, and format to diverse business audiences, purposes, and channels, including digital and asynchronous contexts.
  • Evaluate the effectiveness of professional writing using editorial and analytical criteria, and apply structured revision techniques to improve clarity, concision, and impact.
  • Produce a professional writing portfolio demonstrating command of multiple business writing formats and the ability to communicate complex information with precision and confidence.

Outcome Proficiency Groups

MBA 567 helps you grow in two of the five MyMBA program outcomes:

Analytics & Critical Thinking

Evaluate writing against editorial criteria and revise for clarity, concision, and impact.

Communication & Influence

Write executive summaries, proposals, and reports that communicate with precision and credibility.

Where This Course Leads

The skills you build here carry forward to the MBA Capstone, where you bring all five outcome proficiency groups together to tackle a contemporary business challenge.