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This course is a bridging course designed for intermediate students majoring in business and secretarial English. It aims to equip learners with basic writing skills to meet the needs in prospective job and learning at tertiary level. The course, therefore, will focus on writing in business setting, including e-mails, memos, notices, reports and academic writing such as argumentative writing, chart and essays.
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Unit 1 Keeping Informed
By the end of this unit, students should be able to: (1)write formal notices, informal notices and notices in grid, (2)write days of the week and their abbreviated forms correctly, (3)select appropriate expressions and techniques in notice writing, (4)identify the essential building-blocks in a sentence, (5)write complete sentences with essential building-blocks, and (6)use free writing strategy.
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Unit 2 A Way to Keep Track
By the end of this unit, students should be able to: (1)recognize the benefits of using memos,(2)write memos with right styles and formats,(3)select language that suits the content,(4)write compound and complex sentences,(5)use sentence linking techniques and(6)create your writer's portfolio.
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Unit 3 Creating an Image of You
By the end of this unit, students should be able to (1)write with pertinence.(2)write Curriculum Vitae with substantial information.(3)write well-structured Covering Letters.(4)use specific words & Metaphors,and (5)use word webs to develop vocabularies.
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Unit 4 Business Is Business
By the end of this unit, students should be able to: (1)understand the characteristics of business letters,(2)write business letters with appropriate formats & styles,(3)avoid choppy sentences in writing,(4)use writing strategies:use symbols to do proofreading.
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Meeting Agenda & Minutes
Meetings form a crucial part of any organisation's day-to-day operation. It is important that those who support these meetings are able to listen actively and take useful and constructive notes. This course is aimed at helping you to develop the skills required to take effective meeting minutes.
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Unit 6 Looking Beyond Differences
By the end of this unit, students should be able to: (1)write comparison and contrast paragraphs,(2)identify and use the whole-to-whole and point-to-points patterns,(3)understand body paragraphs,(4)identify and use opinions and facts, and (5)use outline to structure your writing.
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Unit 7 Interpreting Visual Information
By the end of this unit, students should be able to: (1)get familiar with the types of charts,(2)be familiar with the language for interpreting curve charts,(3)understand trends and movement of trends,(4)understand and control cohesion and coherence in passage writing,and (5)use writing strategy: do research to collect data.
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Unit 8 Experiencing Science
By the end of this unit, students should be able to: (1)understand the major types of survey,(2)conduct data from survey,(3)interpret data from bar charts and pie charts by grouping,(4)use approximation to express numbers,(5)write methodology,(6)control shifts in verb tense,and (7)understand where to do research.
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Unit 9 Writing a Dissertation
Although a dissertation can be seen as a difficult piece of work, it is a good idea to think of it as providing a real opportunity to explore something that you are really interested in within your course.
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Writing for developing learning skills
As a college student, you will be expected to prepare and write a dissertation in your final year. It provides you with an opportunity to undertake a piece of individual research work and really examine an aspect of the subject you are studying closely.
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