Focus on English Writing

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