Armstrong-Hilton eLearning

10 modules (five-month course)

Participants have to take the first five modules (A1-A5). These provide a thorough grounding in business writing.

Module name

Module Objectives

developing your writing

	planning effectively
	the different uses of present continuous and present simple
	write clearly and simply, and eliminate jargon
	grammar terminology used on the course

writing emails

	using the passive voice well
	ways of sounding positive
	the differences between formal and informal English styles

writing letters

	articles (a, an, the)
	prepositions of time and place
	key phrases for asking and giving information - how to agree to and decline a request

writing executive summaries

	summarising information and how to reduce your word count
	changing static nouns into active verbs to make your English clearer and more dynamic
	relative clauses (who, which, that clauses)

writing reports

	the basic parts of a report; a look at collective nouns and how we use them
	verbs which take either the infinitive (to …) or gerund (-ing)
	the difference between few and a few

Participants choose five modules from the elective modules below.

writing reports: the objective

	writing effective introductions
	the language of meetings
	ways of talking about purpose

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writing reports: the findings

	writing up your findings
	using conjunctions to express addition
	expressing degrees of change
	structuring your ideas, showing consensus and adapting your tone

writing reports: the conclusion

	using conjunctions to express contrast
	modal verbs which show possibility, permission and obligation (can, must, may etc.)
	making convincing recommendations

taking minutes

	the various ways you can structure minutes
	reporting verbs and the structures that follow them
	the grammatical rules that govern reported speech

A10

writing proposals

	writing a convincing proposal by adding adverbs for emphasis; learn how to use complex conditionals to express hypothetical situations
	formal writing

A11

writing personnel letters

	writing a letter accepting or rejecting a job applicant
	vocabulary we use to describe people
	using the future continuous and future perfect tenses

A12

self-appraisals

	writing a cover letter for a promotion/internal transfer
	action words you can use to describe your achievements
	past tenses and present perfect to talk about your professional history

A13

arrangements and itineraries

	structuring letters outlining arrangements and itineraries
	important travel vocabulary
	the difference between if and when, and the associated grammar

A14

writing claim letters (mark)

	writing a claim letter
	past tenses to describe events
	the differences between very, to and so
	emotive and restrained language

A15

writing adjustment letters

	writing an effective adjustment letter
	the differences between raise, rise and arise
	modal verbs


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