Acerca de este curso: 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. After completing this course, you will be able to: - write business emails - write an executive summary - write persuasively in English - adapt content to purpose, context and audience - use appropriate style and tone of writing for business purposes
Creada por: The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Enseñado por: Sean McMinn, Senior Insructor
Center for Language Education
Enseñado por: Kin Tang, Instructor
Center for Language Education
Enseñado por: Delian Gaskell, Instructor
Center for Language Education
| Información básica | Curso 2 de 5 en Inglés empresarial para personas no nativas Specialization |
| Compromiso | 6 weeks of study, 3-5 hours/week |
| Idioma | English |
| Cómo aprobar | Aprueba todas las tareas calificadas para completar el curso. |
| Calificaciones del usuario |
Programa
SEMANA 1
Welcome Module
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.
2 videos, 4 lecturas
- Lecture: Objectives and outcomes
- Vídeo: How this course is organized
- Demande de discussion: How is this course relevant to you?
- Lecture: Learning how to learn
- Lecture: Learning vocabulary
- Demande de discussion: How do you learn English?
- Lecture: The HKUST grammar guide
SEMANA 2
Business writing genres
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.
5 videos, 5 lecturas, 2 cuestionarios de práctica
- Lecture: Objectives and outcomes
- Demande de discussion: What is style?
- Vídeo: Business letters, memos and emails: The basics
- Vídeo: Report writing
- Vídeo: The writing process, part 1
- Lecture: Objectives and outcomes
- Lecture: Vocabulary list
- Quiz pour s'exercer: Vocabulary quiz
- Lecture: Commonly confused words
- Vídeo: Challenging grammar: -ing vs. -ed
- Quiz pour s'exercer: Challenging grammar: -ing vs. -ed
- Lecture: Sentence pattern you should know #1
Calificado: Module 2 Quiz
SEMANA 3
Writing emails
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.
7 videos, 8 lecturas, 7 cuestionarios de práctica
- Lecture: Objectives and outcomes
- Vídeo: Context and directness
- Quiz pour s'exercer: Using the Direct Approach practice
- Vídeo: Writing to persuade
- Quiz pour s'exercer: Writing to persuade practice
- Lecture: What do we mean when we say, 'rhetoric'?
- Vídeo: Rhetorical devices
- Lecture: The concept of kairos
- Demande de discussion: How many rhetorical devices do you use?
- Vídeo: The writing process, part 2
- Lecture: Peer-review practice: Sample persuasive email
- Quiz pour s'exercer: Peer-review practice: Persuasive email
- Demande de discussion: Directness and persuasion
- Lecture: Objectives and outcomes
- Lecture: Vocabulary list
- Quiz pour s'exercer: Vocabulary quiz
- Quiz pour s'exercer: How concise are you?
- Vídeo: Paragraphing
- Vídeo: Challenging grammar: Missing verb 'to be'
- Lecture: Sentence pattern you should know #2
- Quiz pour s'exercer: Pattern #2 Independent Clause: Appositive
- Lecture: Peer review practice: Sample email
- Quiz pour s'exercer: Peer review practice
Calificado: Writing a persuasive email
Calificado: Module 3 Quiz
Calificado: Correct the grammar and vocabulary errors and rewrite
SEMANA 4
Writing memos
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.
6 videos, 8 lecturas, 6 cuestionarios de práctica
- Lecture: Objectives and outcomes
- Vídeo: Audience, purpose, tone and style
- Vídeo: Plain English
- Quiz pour s'exercer: Plain English practice
- Vídeo: Gender sensitive language
- Demande de discussion: Communication styles: Is there a gender influence?
- Lecture: Objectives and outcomes
- Lecture: Vocabulary list
- Quiz pour s'exercer: Vocabulary quiz
- Vídeo: Active and passive voice
- Quiz pour s'exercer: Practising your active and passive voice
- Vídeo: Challenging grammar: Comma splice
- Lecture: Sentence patterns you should know #3 & #4
- Lecture: Reasons to use the passive voice
- Lecture: Tone & Style – Avoid using clichés in your writing
- Quiz pour s'exercer: Tone & Style – Avoid using clichés in your writing
- Lecture: Peer review practice: Sample memo with errors
- Quiz pour s'exercer: Peer review practice quiz for grammar and vocabulary errors
- Lecture: Peer-review practice: Sample memo
- Quiz pour s'exercer: Peer-review practice quiz for memo
Calificado: Module 4 Quiz
Calificado: Correct the grammar and vocabulary errors and rewrite memo
Calificado: Writing a memo
SEMANA 5
Writing executive summaries
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.
4 videos, 10 lecturas, 3 cuestionarios de práctica
- Lecture: Objectives and outcomes
- Lecture: General organization of an executive summary
- Vídeo: Presenting data
- Quiz pour s'exercer: Presenting data
- Lecture: Linking ideas
- Lecture: Business Case: Sustainable Seafood for a Sustainable Future
- Lecture: Objectives and outcomes
- Lecture: Vocabulary list
- Quiz pour s'exercer: Vocabulary quiz
- Vídeo: Nominalization
- Lecture: Connotation
- Demande de discussion: What do these words mean to you?
- Vídeo: Challenging grammar: Possessive form
- Lecture: The prepositional of-phrase
- Lecture: Sentence patterns you should know #5 & #6
- Lecture: Peer-review practice: Sample executive summary
- Quiz pour s'exercer: Peer-review practice quiz
Calificado: Module 5 Quiz
Calificado: Executive summary for a proposal
SEMANA 6
Concluding module
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.
1 lectura
- Lecture: Post-course survey
Calificado: Final exam
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Certificats
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Creadores
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Tarifa
| Comprar curso | |
|---|---|
| Accede a los materiales del curso | Disponible |
| Accede a los materiales con calificación | Disponible |
| Recibe una calificación final | Disponible |
| Obtén un Certificado de curso para compartir | Disponible |
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