This course aims to improve your Business English writing skills by developing your use of vocabulary, grammar, understanding of different business writing genres, and your ability to write professional business documents. Skills learned in this course will be used in the cross-cultural communications course and help prepare you to produce the professional business documents in the Capstone project.
English for Effective Business Writing
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English for Effective Business Writing
This course is part of Business English for Non-Native Speakers Specialization
Instructors: Kin Tang
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3 weeks at 8 hours a week
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This course is part of the Business English for Non-Native Speakers Specialization
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There are 6 modules in this course
Welcome to Week 1! This week, we will cover Module 1 where we introduce you to the objectives and structure of this Specialization and course.
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2 videos4 readings2 discussion prompts
Welcome to Week 2! This week we will cover Module 2 where we introduce you to basic genres of business writing and the writing process. You will also be introduced to vocabulary and language skills common to business communications.
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5 videos5 readings3 assignments1 discussion prompt
Welcome to Week 3! This week we will cover Module 3 where we introduce you to emailing and the language skills you will use in business emails. You will also be introduced to vocabulary and language skills common to business communications.
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7 videos8 readings8 assignments2 peer reviews2 discussion prompts
Welcome to Week 4! This week we will cover Module 4 where we introduce you memos and how to write according to audience and purpose. You will also be introduced to vocabulary and language skills common to business communications.
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6 videos8 readings7 assignments2 peer reviews1 discussion prompt
Welcome to Week 5! This week we will cover Module 5 where we introduce you to executive summaries and language skills you will use when writing persuasively. You will also be introduced to vocabulary and language skills common to business communications.
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4 videos10 readings4 assignments1 peer review1 discussion prompt
Welcome to Week 6! This week we will cover Module 6 where we will conclude the course and you will need to complete the final exam and post-course survey.
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1 reading1 assignment
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Reviewed on Sep 17, 2016
Good course. Excelent material but the girl of the videos speaks too low, always need to put the volume at the maximum and somethimes also in that way I hardly can listen to her.
MA
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Reviewed on Sep 9, 2017
Good course for practice however some error in grading section of grammar practice.
GB
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Reviewed on Sep 22, 2020
This course was intensive and full of useful information. Some tasks were difficult to understand, but it worth learning.
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