Skills For Work Training - Communication Skills
Document Writing Essentials
This course develops essential formal writing skills for professionals — enhancing efficiency in creating clear, structured documents.
Document Writing Essentials covers the full document development cycle — from scoping & research, to structuring & managing reviews. Key grammar and expression topics are addressed, with a focus on short reports, emails, and presentations.
Practical writing exercises throughout the course reinforce learning. Participants will gain the skills to produce concise, effective documents tailored to workplace needs.
- Mode: Live Online, On-Demand, Corporate Booking
- Cost: $550.00
- Duration: Full Day, 9:30am – 3:30pm
- Non-Accredited Training — suitable for continuing professional development
(Certificate with CPD Points).
Why Choose Us
Outcomes From Completing This Course
You will learn how to:
- Use an ordered and streamlined development cycle to complete each writing project to deadline.
- Define and fix your document’s scope at the beginning of the process.
- Manage stakeholder involvement and contributions more effectively through the development cycle.
- Control the quality of your documents more directly, in terms of grammar and expression.
- Understand the conventions and forms of short reports, email and presentations.
Enlightened
Recognise the value of formal writing skills for professional development, and in advancing your organisation's interests.
Empowered
Deliver high-quality, targeted documents on time and budget.
Effectively communicate your technical and commercial insights.
Skilled
Manage stakeholders and scope in your writing projects.
Structure and express your ideas with confidence.
Confident
Practise document planning, drafting and review in a supportive environment.
Return to work, ready to implement your new skills.

Course Highlights
How Our Course Is Different
Develop essential formal writing skills with our Document Writing Essentials course. Create clear and structured documents which appeal to a wide range of stakeholders.
- Confidence in Every Writing Project: Equip yourself with the skills and tools to approach each writing project with confidence and clarity.
- Streamlined Development Cycle: Master an ordered and efficient development cycle to meet deadlines with ease.
- Effective Stakeholder Management: Gain strategies to manage stakeholder involvement and contributions more effectively throughout the development cycle.
- Experienced Facilitator: Benefit from industry insights and guidance from our highly qualified instructor.
- Engaging Format: Participate in interactive workshops and receive personalized feedback.
- Employer Endorsement: Acquire knowledge that is recognized and valued by employers.
- Certification: Earn a recognized certification upon completion, showcasing your expertise.

FAQs
Frequently Asked Questions
Everything that you wanted to know, and were waiting to ask!
This short course is ideal for a wide range of professionals in the private, public, not-for-profit and NGO sectors, who are seeking to develop capability in this core skillset.
This short course has been developed by TechKnowledgey in consultation with industry and government partners and with reference to best practice skills development to ensure it responds to the real-world needs of your sector. Our facilitators are not only experienced professionals but are also current practitioners who are equipped to explain the contemporary issues and workplace requirements.
The course is available Live Online, On-Demand, and for Corporate Bookings – offering flexibility to suit different learning preferences, and group requirements.
Live Online is delivered by our facilitator in real-time, and offers the chance to ask questions.
On Demand gives you 1-month of access to pre-recorded training, covering exactly the same topics, over the same time-frame. You don’t have a chance to ask questions, but you can replay and review the presentation.
Both:
- Cover the same content and skills development.
- Take the same time to complete, and provide the same volume of learning.
- Come at the same cost.
- A full day is equivalent to 6 hours
- High speed and uninterrupted internet access is required to access the Live Online and On Demand courses.
- Latest version browser; we recommend Chrome.
- Live Online preference is that the electronic device you are using has video to promote a more interactive and personal learning environment.
Yes, participants will receive reference materials and resources to support their learning during and after the course. Live Online and On Demand students will receive materials digitally. For Corporate bookings printed materials are provided.
- Yes! You will receive a digital credential which recognises your time and learning effort. TechKnowledgey uses the Credly platform to issue our certificates.
- A digital credential or badge is a representation of the learning outcomes, experience or competencies students have attained.
- Our digital certificates can be securely verified, and our students can share them online via social networks like LinkedIn.