Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Faculty : FDEG
Field : EG
Level : 3
Course : English
Instructor : Douglas Orangi
Description This course is designed to help students become more familiar with the styles and
techniques of business writing. The course is cognizant of the fact that effective writing plays an
increasingly important role in todays business world. Areas to be covered include but not limited to:
business documents such as letters, memos, minutes and reports with full explanations on usage,
language style and layout. In addition, punctuation and avoiding common mistakes will also be
covered.
General objective: To help students improve their knowledge on finding the right words, using an
appropriate style, respecting conventional formats and correct spelling in their writing.
Specific objectives:
By the end of the course, the student should be able to:
Reference Works:
Tonya T., Graham T. Intelligent Business. Intermediate Business English. Pearson Longman,
2005.
Tonya T., Graham T. Intelligent Business Style guide. Intermediate Business English.
Pearson Longman.
Web materials
Any other relevant material
Week
Topic /Skill
Learning outcomes
1&2
SEMESTER I
To appropriately talk about their job using phrases that describe
what you do
To correctly use a full stop, comma, question mark, exclamation
marks, colon, semi colon, dash, brackets, apostrophe, inverted
commas and hyphen in their writing
To effectively use numbers, figures and quantities in business
operations
To correctly use cardinal numbers, ordinal numbers, fractions
5&6
Business letters
7
8
Memorandum
9&10
Minutes
11
Report writing
12
13
Revision
FINAL EXAMINATION