Plan any subject, week by week

Pick a subject and say how many hours a week you actually have. You get the real order the skills have to be learned in, the graded work each stretch ends in, and an honest total in weeks. It is arithmetic over a published skill map, not a plan a model wrote on the way to you.

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01 · The estimate

7 weeks at 4 hours a week

24.3Hours of work

7Weeks

14Things to do

2Marked

That is the core path. Business Writing & Communication also declares 4.5 hours of specialist skills that are not counted above — take those too and it is 8 weeks. Both numbers assume you hit 4 hours every week, which nobody does; the plan does not expire if you don’t.

02 · The plan

Week by week, in the order it has to be learned

Each line is one thing to be able to do. The order is the skill map’s own: nothing appears before what it needs.

Week 15h starts here
- Audience and purposeState in one line who a document is for and what you want them to do, then write to that1.5h
- The single most important sentenceIdentify the single sentence a document exists to deliver, and lead with it1.5h
- Evidence and claimsSeparate claim from evidence and mark your confidence in each honestly2h · runs into week 2
Week 24.5h starts here
- Email that gets a replyWrite an email whose ask is unmissable in the first two lines1.5h
- Notes people actually useTurn a meeting into notes that name every decision, owner and deadline1h
- Plain languageRewrite a dense paragraph in plain language without losing precision2h · runs into week 3
Week 34h starts here
- Sentence craftWrite sentences where the subject does the verb and the emphasis lands where you meant it2h
- CuttingCut a draft by a third while keeping every load-bearing idea2h · runs into week 4
Week 44h starts here
- Tone and registerMatch tone to the reader and the stakes, and defend the choice2h
- Structure and signpostingOrder a document so the most important thing comes first and each section earns its place2h · runs into week 5
Week 54.5h starts here
- Writing an executive summaryCompress a long document into a summary that stands alone and hides nothing2h
- The shape of a proposalStructure a recommendation so a reader can approve or reject it without a meeting2.5h · runs into week 6
Week 62.3h starts here
- Get £8,000 of unbudgeted spend approvedMarkedRead the checklist it is marked against1h
- Summarise something long, without losing the bad newsMarkedRead the checklist it is marked against1.3h · runs into week 7

This is the same plan we would give anyoneThere is no box here for how good you already are, because saying so has never made it true. This is what Business Writing & Communication takes, and the only thing that takes work out of it is work of yours that has been marked. What the ten-minute check gives you is the other half: where you stand in it before you start.

Check where you stand in Business Writing & CommunicationAbout ten minutes. No account.

The plan above is Business Writing & Communication in full, and the marked work in it is published with its checklist before you start. Want a subject nobody has written? Ask for it — that one does need an account, and a few minutes.