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 English for Non-Native Speakers SpecializationThe Hong Kong University of Science and TechnologyAbout this Course
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English
Subtitles: Georgian, Arabic, French, Portuguese (European), Italian, Vietnamese, German, Russian, English, Spanish
Skills you will gain
Business CommunicationEnglish LanguageBusiness WritingWriting
Learner Career Outcomes
71%
got a tangible career benefit from this course
50%
got a pay increase or promotion
Shareable Certificate
Earn a Certificate upon completion
100% online
Start instantly and learn at your own schedule.
Course 2 of 5 in the
Flexible deadlines
Reset deadlines in accordance to your schedule.
Approx. 26 hours to complete
English
Subtitles: Georgian, Arabic, French, Portuguese (European), Italian, Vietnamese, German, Russian, English, Spanish
Offered by
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
HKUST - A dynamic, international research university, in relentless pursuit of excellence, leading the advance of science and technology, and educating the new generation of front-runners for Asia and the world.
Syllabus - What you will learn from this course
1 hour to complete
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.
1 hour to complete
2 videos (Total 6 min), 4 readings
3 hours to complete
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.
3 hours to complete
5 videos (Total 34 min), 5 readings, 3 quizzes
8 hours to complete
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.
8 hours to complete
7 videos (Total 38 min), 8 readings, 10 quizzes
8 hours to complete
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.
8 hours to complete
6 videos (Total 32 min), 8 readings, 9 quizzes
Reviews
TOP REVIEWS FROM ENGLISH FOR EFFECTIVE BUSINESS WRITING
by MBSep 17, 2016
Good course. Excelent material but the girl of the videos speaks too low, always need to put the volume at the maximum and somethimes also in that way I hardly can listen to her.
by EDDec 2, 2017
This course was very useful for me and I learned a lot about business communication and English writing. I think everyone who is in business needs to learn in this course.
by GGNov 9, 2017
It is a very good course. As a non native english speaker I learned a lot of things and I enhanced my busineess writing skills. The animated videos were very good!!
by MSOct 1, 2020
I got to learn a lot from this course. Especially,I learned so many new things at the same time very basic ones which I actually had no idea. In all
About the Business English for Non-Native Speakers Specialization
This Specialization will introduce non-native speakers of English to methods for developing English language and communication skills for the workplace, doing business, cross-cultural understanding, and business case study analysis. You'll apply these skills in the final Capstone Project by analysing a current business case study and providing recommendations to a target audience in both presentation and written formats.
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