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About the Course
Want your workplace writing to make a positive impression? At the end of this course, you will be a more confident writer, able to create higher quality professional documents more quickly.
This course is at the introductory or beginner level and focuses on mastering the basics of email etiquette and communication. While this course will help learners become faster and more efficient writers by virtue of practice with common writing purposes, it does not cover marketing emails or job application materials.
In this project-based learning course, you will work on a continuous project, the writing of a professional email/memo. At the end of the course, you will write a clear and concise email/memo. The final product will be individualized to your professional endeavors and follow the guidelines for one of the common types of emails/memos explained in the course: directives, progress reports, incident reports, response to inquiries, and meeting minutes. You will gain a wealth of skills. You will learn about appropriate email/memo formats, common ways to organize email/memo contents, common email/memo routing protocols, and expectations upon writers in professional environments.
This course is designed to be beneficial to all levels of learners, whether you have never heard of an email/memo or write them every day. Everyone will learn something from this experience. In fact, different levels of learners are encouraged in this course so that we can all learn from each other. There will be thousands of learners working side-by-side on their projects, and the environment will be social, supportive, and constructive.
By the end of this course, learners will be able to:
- write clear and concise emails/memos relative to their professional endeavors
- recognize five different types of emails/memos and their formats
- analyze email/memo context for audience and tone
- use basic grammar correctly in their email/memo writing
Materials required:
Learners in this course will need only a computer with strong enough Internet to play videos and hear sound. A word processing software is suggested, but not required.
Time required:
This course will require approximately 4 hours of work in the platform, including videos, reading, quizzes, and other activities.
The course project will require approximately 6 hours of work, including the rough draft, draft peer review, final draft, and final peer review.
Top reviews
SN
Mar 29, 2016
Wonderful Course very Handy for those who work with emails and memos . Easy to follow and the assignments are very practical for those who work and mange studying .a Big Thank you to the Instructors
DM
Jul 9, 2017
Really a good course, learning lot of new things , thanks to the instructors.. both the instructors make me understand through videos by their simple and easy way of teaching. Thank you
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