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24 May 2025  |  16 August 2025

Business Writing (May 2025 Intake)

Short Course Coordinator:
Zanele Nkosi
Course dates
24 May 2025 - 16 August 2025
Applications close
24 May 2025
Overview
The course aims to develop students' skills to write clear, concise, and effective emails, memos, letters, minutes, and proposals, using the appropriate register, tone, language structure, and word choice.
Duration
10 Weeks (40 hours) + Exam session
Format
Face-to-Face
Pricing
VAT incl. = R11,800.00

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    The course content addresses the following topics: 

    • The writing process 
    • Structure of emails, formal letters, memoranda, minutes, proposals, and short reports
    • Formatting writing for style and effective presentation
    • Audience, context, and purpose in workplace communication
    • Analysing, synthesising, and evaluating information in business context
    • Subjective and objective language use
    • Direct and indirect approaches for communicating negative information
    • Identifying and avoiding common writing mistakes
    • Speaking tasks in a business context: prepared speech, discussion, business solution/proposal pitch




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