Academic writing is a particular style used for various purposes in today’s business world in order to display a clear understanding of a particular subject. It requires more formal and professional language, a logical structure, and is supported by evidence. In this academic writing II course, the focus is writing in a business context where students will develop and enhance their writing skills using processes effectively to plan, research, outline, and present the final document, including business letters, e-mail/memos, reports, and other channels used in written business communication.

Upon completion of this course,  students will learn how to effectively compose a paragraph and ultimately an essay in an organized manner.

• Communicating in a Digital-age workplace
• Business Message
• Business Presentation
• Avoiding Plagiarism
• Designing and Reporting Surveys

Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to:

• Describe and practice communicating in the workplace demonstrating effective listening and non-verbal skills and building intercultural workplace skills.
• Plan and write various business messages from e-mail and memos to messaging and texting, podcasts and wikis, blogging, and social networking.
• Plan, organize, and write letters for positive, negative, and persuasive messages with effective sentence structure and strong paragraph construction.
• Analyse and prepare outlines for proposals, reports, and essays.
• Read using various methods demonstrating their development of critical approaches, finding key points and taking notes.
• Demonstrate using the effective elements of paraphrasing, summarising, using references and quotations, combining sources, organising paragraphs, writing introductions and conclusions, and re-writing and proofreading.
• Analyse and practice various elements of writing: argument and discussion, cause and effect, cohesion, comparison, definition, examples, generalisations, numbers, problems and solutions, academic style, visual information, and working in groups.
• Write properly and accurately demonstrating use of abbreviations, academic vocabulary, parts of speech, caution, caution, synonyms, punctuation, and time words.
• Design and conduct surveys, and questionnaires using appropriate survey language, question forms and proper tenses.

• Lecture/presentation
• Discussion
• Individual assignments and research (facilitate)
• Facilitated group work