About this course: This is a course to help you write effective business emails in English. This course is unique because each module will provide tips on writing more professional emails as well as lessons to improve your overall English writing skills. Therefore, you will improve your grammar and vocabulary skills for email writing and also improve your cross cultural knowledge to make you more powerful and successful in your business communication. You will look at different email formats to analyze tone, formality levels, and various organizational styles. You will be able to improve your emails of introduction, announcements, requests and emails that apologize or revise a request. In this course you will write and revise 4–5 emails, complete several comprehension quizzes and review the emails of other participants. By the end of this course, you will be able to • Improve your overall written English skills • See differences and similarities among the different email formats • Write more effective subject lines and email text • Apply various key language to different types of emails • Correct common errors such as punctuation and capitalization • Study tone and level of formality in emails • Understand how culture affects what is appropriate in a business emails • Write powerful business emails for professional needs
Who is this class for: This course is primarily designed for non-native English users who want to improve their professional email writing skills in English. The language skills reviewed in this course are mainly targeted for intermediate level. However, there are many items that any non-native English user will find helpful to improve their overall professional email communication.
Taught by: Gerry Landers, Lecturer
Georgia Tech Language Institute
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Improve Your English Communication Skills Specialization.
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| Commitment | 3-4 hours/week |
| Language | English, Subtitles: French, Japanese |
| How To Pass | Pass all graded assignments to complete the course. |
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I feel so privileged of being part of this course. I have learnt a lot of new techniques and skills for improving my Email writing. Thanks team Georgia
very good course indeed....definitely would recommend it for anyone of my friends.
It was awesome experience to be one of the lucky ones who joined this course.
It helped to learn various types of Emails.
Mr.jerry was awesome to explain the course and took us step by step to reach.
I am interested to join new coures and get more information more knowledge.
Thank you so much
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The professor is clear and his kindness comes through in his smile and demeanor. I was hoping this course to be a bit more advanced. I would have prefered a clear indication of the level this is for. I got good information but I would have like to have gotten even more out of it