Business English Writing Workshop A
Do you want to know how to write properly to convey your message at work?
Do you want to brush up your English writing skill?
Do you need to pay attention to different genres when you write?
If you answer ‘yes’ to all these questions, you must come and join us to know more about contemporary business writing practices in English.
PROGRAMME OBJECTIVE
In business world, we always communicate with people in writing – when we want to enquire about information, when we want to request something, when we want to express our dissatisfaction, when we want to promote our services or products – we all need to write. In order to achieve our different purposes and get our messages across, we have to equip ourselves with good writing skills. This workshop aims to provide learners’ with some knowledge of basic effective communication skills in English writing. We start from planning our draft to organizing our ideas and producing the final version.
Course level: Intermediate
PROGRAMME STURCTURE
The workshop is to be conducted once a week on weekdays for six lessons, or at weekends for four lessons, and the last lesson is for an in-class writing assessment.
|
Subjects |
No. of sessions |
No. of hours per session |
Total Contact Hours |
|
Business English Writing Workshop A |
6 or 4 |
3 or 4.5 |
18 |
|
An In-class Writing Assessment |
1 |
2 |
2 |
PROGRAMME OUTLINE
The following topics will be covered in this workshop.
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Topics |
Contact Hours |
|
Basic principles of communication in writing |
3 |
|
Making a request or an enquiry |
3 |
|
Reply to a request or an enquiry |
3 |
|
Lodging a complaint |
3 |
|
Handling a complaint |
3 |
|
Writing promotional materials |
3 |
|
An in-class writing assessment |
2 |
MEDIUM OF INSTRUCTION
This course is conducted in English.
ASSIGNMENTS
There are one individual writing assignment (20%) and one group writing assignment (20%) during the course.
Class 1 (Tuesday and Thursday evenings)
| Class code: | BEWA(01) |
| Date: | 13, 20 February and 11, 13, 18, 20 March 2014 |
| Time: | 7 pm to 10 pm |
| Date & Time of Exam: | 12 April 2014 (10:30 am to 12:30 pm) |
Class 2 (Saturday mornings)
| Class code: | BEWA(02) |
| Date: | 8, 15, 22, 29 March 2014 |
| Time: | 9 am to 1:30 pm |
| Date & Time of Exam: | 12 April 2014 (10:30 am to 12:30 pm) |
ENTRY REQUIREMENTS
Learners should meet any one of the following minimum requirements before enrolling for the course:
1) HKCEE (Grade E or above in English Language Syllabus B or Grade D in Syllabus A),
2) HKDSE (Level 2 in English Language), OR
3) any other relevant qualifications approved by the Institute
COURSE FEE
SSI Registered Professionals: HK$2,800
SSI Students: HK$3,000
Others: HK$3,200
Training materials are included in the course fee.
Early bird discount*: 10% off if enrolling at least two weeks prior to the start of the course
Group discount*: 10% off if two or more participants enrolling the workshop together
* Participants can only enjoy either of the discount benefits.
Trainer’s profile
Jayson LO, MSc (Bath), PGDE (CUHK), BA (Hons) (HKPU)
Jayson is a Language Instructor, currently teaching English for a local university and some other NGOs. After Jayson finished his undergraduate studies, he started working in different industrial and commercial fields. A few years later he left his work and pursued his postgraduate studies in theUK. After he had returned toHong Kong, he continued to work for both private and governmental organisations in order to understand more about communication at workplace. Meanwhile he started his part-time English teaching career. Until recent years, he started to concentrate on English language training for adults. After he had completed another postgraduate course of education in English language teaching, he started working for the Language Centre of a local university. He also provides language training for working adults and ethnic minorities in other institutes.
He believes “Learning is a never-ending process”. He likes to make use of time to acquire professional knowledge and qualifications such as the International Teaching and Training Diploma from theUK, and the National Corporate Trainer qualification from the PRC. He is currently pursuing another MA programme at theUniversityofHong Kong. Since he believes communication is vital for establishing harmonised relationship among people, and language is a tool for communication, particularly English language which is the common language spoken in almost every part of the world, he devotes himself to teaching English and cultivating his students.
