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.
This course is part of the Business English for Non-Native Speakers Specialization
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- Business Communication
- English Language
- Business Writing
- Writing
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Approx. 25 hours to complete
English
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Try Coursera for BusinessSyllabus - What you will learn from this course
1 hour to complete
Welcome Module
1 hour to complete
2 videos (Total 6 min), 4 readings
3 hours to complete
Business writing genres
3 hours to complete
5 videos (Total 34 min), 5 readings, 3 quizzes
8 hours to complete
Writing emails
8 hours to complete
7 videos (Total 38 min), 8 readings, 10 quizzes
8 hours to complete
Writing memos
8 hours to complete
6 videos (Total 32 min), 8 readings, 9 quizzes
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- 5 stars65.90%
- 4 stars21.75%
- 3 stars7.46%
- 2 stars1.94%
- 1 star2.92%
TOP REVIEWS FROM ENGLISH FOR EFFECTIVE BUSINESS WRITING
by CZJun 12, 2022
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by DNApr 5, 2020
Very Good, learnt a maximum things about writings.
Thank you.
by GGJan 25, 2017
Very well explained and easy to follow.
Learnt a lot from this course
by AJOct 22, 2020
Nice course, at the beggining very easy later gets more serious :)
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