Most people care a great deal about good writing, especially if you are writing emails, memos and correspondence especially to customers. An unclear, garbled email can waste your company time and money. Too many errors can change the meaning of your message without your realizing it. In addition, bad writing makes a negative impression on the reader.

Date: - T.B.A - Location: Armada Hotel, Petaling Jaya, Selangor Time: 9.00 am - 5.00 pm

This course is designed for people in the business world or dealing with business or for those who have to interact in the business world.
This course is designed to benefit you with some strategies to develop and enhance your business writing. We will help you to become aware of your own strengths and weaknesses and help you increased your understanding of what makes successful writing. As a result, your professional documents will become more effective, clearer and productive.

COURSE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES

The emphasis of the course is on developing the skills of speaking, listening, reading and writing as well as activating and enlarging vocabulary in a variety of business-related contexts. Thus this course will focus:

• To enhance the ability to write simple, compound and complex sentences.
• Connect simple ideas using logical connectors and conjunctions.
• Write coherent and cohesive messages, memos, letters and informal correspondence.
• Write decisively without redundancy and jargon.
• Use effective and functional language via grammatical structures.

COURSE OUTLINE

Session 1: Principles Of Effective And Meaningful Writing

In this section candidates will be exposed to the principles of writing effectively encompassing the 7Cs of writing effectively, namely writing simply, briefly, cohesively, coherently and accurately. The elements of redundancy and repetitions will also be dealt with.

Session 2: Errors – Spoken And Writing Discourse

This section of the course will deal with the errors Malaysian speakers make in their daily spoken discourse. The use of the Malaysian “lah” as an article will be discussed. Intonation and stress patterns, especially in the construction of questions will be discussed. The importance of tag questions as indicators of positive and negative response will be dealt with. Tone also reflects attitude and candidates will be taught to use the power of the tone to get the desired response.

Session 3: Parts Of Speech And Grammar

The nine parts of speech will be highlighted. Focus will be on the use of articles, use of “s” in plurals and the functional use of tenses. Candidates would learn to construct simple and compound sentences using the structural approach. Error analysis would be used to identify the root cause of errors and for their correction.

Session 4: Writing Effective E -Mails, Letters And Memos

This is a practical session where candidates would be given different scenarios to write. Each piece would be evaluated and discussed. Active participant involvement would require them to identify the root cause and corrected.

METHODOLOGY

This Two (2) days program will be challenging, thought provoking, motivational and above all fun. Candidates will use a variety of learning tools including workshops, games, real life scenarios, and open learning. Candidates will learn via reading and interpreting text and data on a variety of business topics, authentic writing tasks (including letters, fax and reports), planning, drafting and editing, discussion and problem-solving tasks

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