English Courses

LANG 2061 equips students with the strategic skills to craft clear, persuasive, and contextually appropriate messages for diverse professional settings. Through the study of workplace writing concepts, theories, and genres, students will develop adaptable communication skills and gain confidence in analyzing and producing audience-focused messages that make an impact in real-world scenarios.

• Put theory into practice by learning about various communication theories and how authors integrate these and other concepts into writing.
• Gain a better understanding of your future workplace through experiential learning and collaborate with peers in a group project.

• Individual Workplace Scenario Project: Create professional documents for a hypothetical startup, explaining writing choices for audience, purpose, and context. (spoken and written components)
• Group Genre Analysis Project: Analyze a chosen workplace genre, applying strategies to build transferable skills for future professional contexts. (spoken and written components)

• BBA or BSc students admitted in 2023-24
• Prerequisite(s): LANG1403 or LANG1404
• Exclusion(s): LANG2063

Student Testimonials

• "the course definitely has an innovative and interactive delivery method, many checkpoint tasks to keep us engaged"
• "provides sufficient supports to help our work and study, this is indispensable for us"
• “This course taught me not only how to write effectively for the business purpose, but also the  reasons behind it. It gave me a much deeper understanding of the strategic intentions driving corporate communications in the real world.”
• "It taught me how to craft workplace writing that allows us to express ourselves clearly and professionally while building rapport with counterparts and other relevant audiences. The course is also rewarding in that it taught us to analyze different types of workplace writing, allowing students to apply transferable skills that can be used in our future careers."
• “I have learned to differentiate my writing according to my audience. Coming from a country where English is, at best, my 4th language, I learned only one writing style. But this course has helped me in consciously choosing medium, mode, vocab and some writing techniques. Thank you.”