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Communication is an important skill for anyone. This course enables you to develop and improve your communication skills.
There are six lessons:
- Introduction: Communication and language - writing for business, writing for study, writing for enjoyment, types of documents, what is efficient writing, key points, what is communication, communication process, types of communication, communication channels, communicating efficiently, communicating for a purpose, your reader, content, methods of communicating, terminology.
- Basic Writing Skills: Speech parts and Grammar - parts of speech, nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions,conjunctions, interjections, plurals, possessive nouns and pronouns, common grammatical errors, irregular verbs,sentences, sentence structure, types of sentences, constructing sentences, combining sentences, adding modifying words, phrases, linking words and phrases.
- Clear Wording: Common causes of confusion - making meaning clear, glossing, defining, type of language, informative language, persuasive language, imaginative language, literal language, formal language, slang, simplicity, building a paragraph,using appropriate language.
- Concise Wording: Condensing your writing - common problems from lack of conciseness, active and passive voice, condensing a text.
- Punctuation and Accuracy: Punctuation, colon, semi-colon, dash, comma, spelling, spelling rules, American or English spelling.
- Using Writing Skills: letters, essays, business formats, business letters, parts of a business letter, planning what you write, writing a business letter, writing an answer or essay, referencing.
Duration: 100 hrs
Course Aims
- Define the nature and scope of writing.
- Discuss the way written sentences and paragraphs are properly structured.
- Develop an increased capacity to write clearly.
- Learn to write concisely.
- Develop improved punctuation skills.
- Apply basic writing skills more efficiently in a range of situations.
"An excellent opportunity to improve the quality of your communication and writing."
Tracey Jones
Efficent Writing Tutor
What qualification will I achieve for completing this course?
This is an individual module course. The individual module courses are 100 hours long and can be taken on their own or as part of a larger program of study.
If you wish to take an individual module course as a stand alone course, you can elect to sit an optional exam at the end of it.
If you successfully pass the exam and all assignments, you will receive a Statement of Attainment. You can take examinations at a time and location to suit you. If you enrol, you will be sent further information on how to arrange examinations at the end of the course.
If you do not wish to take the exam, you will receive a Course Completion letter when you have passed all assignments.
There is an assignment at the end of each lesson. So for example, if an individual module course contains ten lessons, you will need to complete ten assignments. Assignments can be sent to us via email, post or fax.
Other qualifications, such as certificates, diplomas etc may require examinations to be taken as part of the overall assessment process.
You can find further information on the examinations process by clicking on the “Enrolment” link above.
You can find further information on other courses by clicking on the “Courses” link above.
AN EXAMPLE OF A SET TASK AND ASSIGNMENT FROM THE COURSE
SET TASK
Look through some magazines, newspapers and newsletters. Try to get a variety of different standards of publications. These could be from school, church or youth club newsletters through to glossy, professional magazines. Check the grammar used in these different publications. Try to find mistakes in grammar. Notice how the writing reads in different parts of these publications. See if you can work out why some sections of the writing seem to be easier to read and understand than other sections. Is it because of the type of words that are used? Is it more than just the type of words?
Is it because of the way the words are combined? Is it something else?
ASSIGNMENT
1. What did you learn from your set task above? Write no more than one page and no less than three sentences for your answer.
2. Copy out any errors in grammar that you found in the newspapers, newsletters and magazines that you read in your set task.
3. Write a sentence that illustrates a dangling modifier, and correct the sentence.
4. Write a paragraph or more built up from the following sentences. Expand and combine the sentences as needed to create a good and interesting paragraph with varied sentence structure.
The girl picked flowers.
She gave the flowers to her mother.
Her mother was ill.
The father was in the fields.
The mother could not get up to cook or clean.
The girl made soup.
The sky outside was grey.
The girl worried that it might rain.
She worried that her father might be caught in the rain.
The mother barely spoke.
The mother’s eyes were sad.
The girl fed her mother some soup.
The mother went to sleep.
The girl waited for her father by the door.
5. Read the following passage carefully, taking note of each type of sentence. Choose one example from the passage of each of the following:
· A declarative sentence
· An exclamatory sentence
· A compound sentence
· A complex sentence
· A compound‑complex sentence.
What qualification will I achieve for completing this course?
This is an individual module course. The individual module courses are 100 hour long usually and can be taken on their own or as part of a larger program of study.
If you wish to take an individual module course as a stand alone course, you can elect to sit an optional exam at the end of it.
If you successfully pass the exam and all assignments, you will receive a Statement of Attainment. You can take examinations at a time and location to suit you. If you enrol, you will be sent further information on how to arrange examinations at the end of the course.
If you do not wish to take the exam, you will receive a Course Completion letter when you have passed all assignments.
There is an assignment at the end of each lesson. So for example, if an individual module course contains ten lessons, you will need to complete ten assignments. Assignments can be sent to us via email, post or fax.
Other qualifications, such as certificates, diplomas etc may require examinations to be taken as part of the overall assessment process.
You can find further information on the examinations process by clicking on the “Enrolment” link above.
You can find further information on other courses by clicking on the “Courses” link above.
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How Long will it take to complete the course?
This obviously varies from student to student. Some students will have more time for study than others. Some students may work quicker than others, so it is an individual thing. We estimate that most students will take, for example, 4 – 6 months to complete a 100 hour individual module, but we allow up to 12 months for you to complete it.
Longer courses will obviously take longer. You can find more information on the length of time required and so on the “Enrolment” box, then selecting “Terms and Conditions of Enrolment.”
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