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The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

English for Effective Business Writing

This course aims to improve your Business English writing skills by developing your use of vocabulary, grammar, understanding of different business writing genres, and your ability to write professional business documents. Skills learned in this course will be used in the cross-cultural communications course and help prepare you to produce the professional business documents in the Capstone project. After completing this course, you will be able to: - write business emails - write an executive summary - write persuasively in English - adapt content to purpose, context and audience - use appropriate style and tone of writing for business purposes

Status: Writing
Status: English Language
Course30 hours

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MA

4.0Reviewed Sep 9, 2017

Good course for practice however some error in grading section of grammar practice.

GB

5.0Reviewed Sep 22, 2020

This course was intensive and full of useful information. Some tasks were difficult to understand, but it worth learning.

MS

5.0Reviewed Oct 1, 2020

I got to learn a lot from this course. Especially,I learned so many new things at the same time very basic ones which I actually had no idea. In all

HK

4.0Reviewed Jul 13, 2023

The course was excellent but the assignment should be checked by a instructor or a system as checking of assignment with peers are not effective.

ED

5.0Reviewed Dec 2, 2017

This course was very useful for me and I learned a lot about business communication and English writing. I think everyone who is in business needs to learn in this course.

AJ

5.0Reviewed Oct 22, 2020

Nice course, at the beggining very easy later gets more serious :)

AP

5.0Reviewed Mar 16, 2017

the course content was good to improve business writing

M

5.0Reviewed Jul 7, 2020

Fantastic course for brushing up your writing knowledge.

ST

5.0Reviewed Dec 19, 2016

I am very happy that courses like this are now online. I thank Coursera team to facilitate the course.

GG

4.0Reviewed Nov 9, 2017

It is a very good course. As a non native english speaker I learned a lot of things and I enhanced my busineess writing skills. The animated videos were very good!!

GL

4.0Reviewed Jan 25, 2017

Very well explained and easy to follow.Learnt a lot from this course

MB

5.0Reviewed Sep 17, 2016

Good course. Excelent material but the girl of the videos speaks too low, always need to put the volume at the maximum and somethimes also in that way I hardly can listen to her.

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