This course is a writing course suitable for students with a TOEFL Paper Based Test score of up to 459 or for students who have successfully completed the Gateway English course. Students in this course will need to be comfortable with taking instruction and participating in English and can read intermediate-level English texts.
The course is designed to equip students with the ability to compose different kinds of business correspondence both in class and for homework. Students are exposed to and practice various phrases, format, and content usually found in standard business writing. At the end of the course, students should have the ability to write standard business e-mails, letters, reports, and memos.
Business Writing Basics is a product writing course, where students are encouraged to mimic a model text such as a formal letter and students' attention is drawn to the importance of language used. This is followed by controlled practice of the highlighted features. At the end of the learning process, students should be able to use the skills, structures and vocabulary they have been taught to produce the product.
All homework, assignments and quizzes will be done online through Moodle. All tasks, exercises and activities during class will be done on a keyboard, so students will be required to bring a computer to class every lesson.