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Learner Reviews & Feedback for Writing Professional Email and Memos (Project-Centered Course) by Kennesaw State University

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About the Course

Want your workplace writing to make a positive impression? At the end of this course, you will be a more confident writer, able to create higher quality professional documents more quickly. This course is at the introductory or beginner level and focuses on mastering the basics of email etiquette and communication. While this course will help learners become faster and more efficient writers by virtue of practice with common writing purposes, it does not cover marketing emails or job application materials. In this project-based learning course, you will work on a continuous project, the writing of a professional email/memo. At the end of the course, you will write a clear and concise email/memo. The final product will be individualized to your professional endeavors and follow the guidelines for one of the common types of emails/memos explained in the course: directives, progress reports, incident reports, response to inquiries, and meeting minutes. You will gain a wealth of skills. You will learn about appropriate email/memo formats, common ways to organize email/memo contents, common email/memo routing protocols, and expectations upon writers in professional environments. This course is designed to be beneficial to all levels of learners, whether you have never heard of an email/memo or write them every day. Everyone will learn something from this experience. In fact, different levels of learners are encouraged in this course so that we can all learn from each other. There will be thousands of learners working side-by-side on their projects, and the environment will be social, supportive, and constructive. By the end of this course, learners will be able to: - write clear and concise emails/memos relative to their professional endeavors - recognize five different types of emails/memos and their formats - analyze email/memo context for audience and tone - use basic grammar correctly in their email/memo writing Materials required: Learners in this course will need only a computer with strong enough Internet to play videos and hear sound. A word processing software is suggested, but not required. Time required: This course will require approximately 4 hours of work in the platform, including videos, reading, quizzes, and other activities. The course project will require approximately 6 hours of work, including the rough draft, draft peer review, final draft, and final peer review....

Top reviews

DM

Jul 9, 2017

Really a good course, learning lot of new things , thanks to the instructors.. both the instructors make me understand through videos by their simple and easy way of teaching. Thank you

RJ

Jan 15, 2021

It was very informative and practical. I got to know many new things, such as correct formatting, the difference between Memos and Emails, and many more...

Thank you so much.

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By Xiangfeng N

Dec 18, 2017

The slides can not draw my attention.

By Sakshata V P

Jun 23, 2021

good learning experience

By Muqadas R

Feb 14, 2024

I love this course.

By Sayali P N

Apr 28, 2022

good

By Prajwal B

Jul 16, 2020

Well it is Project-Centered as it says. I have one problem that here lot of other links to website is given to get more knowledge on the subject, which should be taught by the instructors. They should make small videos for each thing they say. By giving some blog link does't really help all. But great learning. Thank you

By Chelsie B

Jun 8, 2020

Having peers grade you, and them not taking it seriously was annoying. They also didn't leave any constructive feedback, so I just re-uploaded by final email and now I got a 10/10. Otherwise, the structure was good and I learned some new things.

By be18105108 Y B

Jul 28, 2020

If there are different peer assignments in each module then it can be better

By Amal C

Apr 26, 2020

overwhelming resources to read and follow - all pointing to same thoughts

By Abhijeet A

Apr 9, 2016

Good course , could be made better ! content is good and simple !

By LUIZA L

Jul 8, 2016

Good material and practical ideas for the day-to-day use at work.

By Md. S H

May 25, 2020

A valuable course for today's professional world.

By Muhammad A k

Jun 24, 2016

Too much reading material and too few videos.

By Cece Y

May 21, 2017

Poor content

By A k

Jun 1, 2023

I find it incredibly frustrating to repeatedly revisit the videos and reading materials to try and locate the answers to multiple quizzes. Despite my efforts, I was still trying to determine the answers to the questions. It is clear that the videos and reading materials are failing to effectively communicate the necessary information. I enrolled in this course with the aim of feeling confident in my ability to compose professional emails and memos. I am at 65% progress, but I've not gained much knowledge. I certainly cannot articulate what I have learned so far.

By Tomek C

Mar 6, 2016

This course is extremely basic. Its planning is best summed up: “Just show them a memo, have the participants write one, and boom, success!” That one small, peer-evaluated exercise is not worth the fee.

By Kom P

May 17, 2017

This course is generally pretty basic. While it does provide useful information & a few good tips, I feel like I can easily find most of them on the internet on my own.

By Paula S

Apr 20, 2022

I found this a bit too basic, so perhaps more appropriate for people that haven't been working in a while.

By Amir K

Jun 1, 2023

I have finished the course. my it is not marked as completed. please help me

By Mohammed A

Jul 17, 2020

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By METIN

Mar 21, 2017

It's very simple presentation for the topic. I believe that coursera is a Professional site for learners. So , I don't think people who visit this site don't know these basic rules. I mean what is to, CC, subject or stuff like these. I thought, the course give us more specific materials that we able to use when we write an email, for example, inside of the mail what rules we have to consider or what words or Word structures we should use.

By Ahmed E

Oct 10, 2016

the coarse needs a lot of improvement for the explaining way and the data offered way

By Viviana

May 4, 2024

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