Writing Skills in English
Writing Skills in English
Why should you attend our specialized Business English Course focused on expanding your writing skills?
As companies and organisations increasingly need to communicate effectively across international borders the requirement for precise and effective written communication gains increasing importance. Staff at all levels need to improve their written skills to ensure their communication is clear, precise, consistent and correct. Emails, business letters, financial reports and memos need to convey their message and meaning clearly and efficiently.
Turning Theory into Practice
Our Specialist Group Programme “English for Writing Skills” encourages participants to look at their written work and helps them to improve their techniques in terms of expression, tone, formality and style. The programme will be based around the needs of the participants, developing language skills through a series of writing tasks encompassing a range of appropriate styles, tone and register. There will be regular feedback on each participant’s work and opportunities to revise and improve their output.
Core subject areas
Analysing “Writing Skills”
- Discussing a variety of styles
- Exploring different registers
- Analysing specific documents
- Spoken vs. written language
- Understanding tone and register
A Model for Writing English
- Clarity
- Conciseness
- Correctness
- Consistency
- Cohesion
Functional English
Looking at: the functions regularly used in business letters and reports eg.
- Making reference
- Using polite phrases and transition markers
- Making recommendations
- Focusing attention
- Offering assistance
Creating a Cohesive Document
- Making reference
- Using polite phrases and transition markers
- Ensuring consistency
Using Plain English
- Making your document more modern, up-to-date and easy to read
- Avoiding archaic phrases and content
- Ensuring clarity in style
Language Development
- Specific writing techniques
- Accuracy in both spoken and written English
- Grammar clinic
- Reading skills to improve awareness of tone and style
Benefits to you
- Improving your English language writing skills in a variety of contexts
- Developing your awareness of different types of documents
- Becoming aware of appropriate tone, style and register for a range of applications
- Improve the speed with which you produce written documents
- Increasing your ability to ‘self-correct’
- Providing you with practical tools to help you to continue to improve your writing skills after the programme
- Fast tracking your overall language ability
- Increasing your confidence when writing reports, emails and business related documents
Bet on language development and changes for the better!
This programme is for…:
- staff working in an international environment who have to deal with documents in English and have to write reports, letters and emails
- professional staff responsible for providing information and ideas to their colleagues and clients in a clear, effective and unambiguous format.