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Jordan English Language Program
UNRWA Business Writing Course
Welcome students!
In this 24-hour course you will learn how to articulate your thoughts in a clear and concise manner that will allow your ideas to be better understood by your readers. You will improve your writing business skills by learning to select and use appropriate formats for your audience, use the correct medium and adjust your writing style accordingly, as well as identify your objective and communicate it clearly.
Course Textbook: Market Leader
Course Objectives
Students will learn to:
- Initiate and respond to emails
- Respond to inquiries in the affirmative and negative
- Summarize reports
- write a document from notes taken during a presentation or meeting
- Describe charts, data and trends
- Use an appropriate degree of formality in different types of correspondence
- Edit own texts for mechanical and grammatical errors
- Cite material taken from other sources
- Improve cohesion in longer documents
- Improve introductions and conclusions, and understand their impact
Assessment
Students will be assessed on ongoing class activities, several pieces of writing, a piece of editing and other topics as determined by the instructor according to the student needs in their professional roles.
Students should expect to spend part of each class writing and to do some reading and writing homework each week.