Focus on English Writing Language Works
Price: AED 8,753

    Course details

    In our sought-after Focus on Writing courses, we cover the fundamentals and technicalities of business writing. Learn from basic grammatical structures and work on a sentence level, with writing practice for every grammar unit. You will also be writing based on your case scenarios and line of work. Choose from the 15 or 20-class option for a more comprehensive coverage. To see how much content will be covered in this course, visit our centre to browse our course book.

    Course Outline

    • English for business today
      • What is English?, What role does local language play?, Language learning in context
    • Writing Effective Sentences I
      • What is the sentence core?, How do Parts of Speech work?
    • Writing effective sentences II
      • What is a Sentence?
    • Punctuation
      • The Comma, The Semicolon
    • Verbs at Work I
      • The basics about verbs, Mood and tense
    • Verbs at Work II
      • Active voice, Parallel structure
    • Pronouns I
      • A pronoun case, More on subjects and objects
    • Pronouns II
      • Agreement and point of view, Collective nouns and indefinite pronouns
    • Modifiers I
      • The basics - Adjectives and adverbs, Position of modifiers
    • Modifiers II
      • Other modifiers – Pronouns and compound adjectives, Hedges, Emphatics, Fillers, and Tag-ons
    • Writing Traps I
      • Plurals and possessives, Capitalization
    • Writing Traps II
      • Number usage, Colons, Dashes, and Ellipses
    • Writing Powerful Sentences I
      • Sentence Style
    • Writing Powerful Sentences II
      • Tone and Style
    • Building Paragraphs I
      • Cohesive and coherent paragraphs, The process of revising
    • Bulding Paragraphs II
      • Structure – Beginning, middle and end, Transitions and connectors
    • Professional Communication I
      • Email guidelines, Basic letters and messages
    • Professional Communication II
      • Formatting – Special features and white space, Diversity and office etiquette
    • Open Sessions
      • Language focus: participants will benefit from an open session planned out according to their language and communication needs. Some key components may include: writing for meetings, presentations, sales, customer service or for any relevant industry to the student, more practice on actual emails, discussion
    Updated on 08 November, 2015

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