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ENG 116: Writing for Business (3 Credits)
Overview

This course will help you develop business writing skills through extensive practice in composing business correspondence and other documents. Students will receive guidance in achieving voice, tone, style, and content appropriate to a specific audience and purpose. This course includes instruction in formatting and editing and introduces the student to business discourse through selected readings.

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Objectives
  Goal One: Delivery of Information in Business Communications
ENG 116 reproduces the work environment and its demands on workers to communicate business matters efficiently through speech and writing. By the end of the course, the students will be able to: 
  •  demonstrate in oral and written projects their ability to explain, question, and compromise regarding a wide range of business concerns.
Goal Two: Effective Business Style 
ENG 116 reinforces students’ knowledge of correct grammar, syntax, and expression in English with modern business formats. By the end of the course, students will be able to: 
  • study and produce documents that incorporate clear sentence and paragraph structure; 
  • write reports and weekly exercises that model correct business formats; 
  • discuss, identify, and produce writing samples that reflect contemporary business style as well as electronic writing styles, such as e-mail. 
Goal Three: Writing to an Audience
ENG 116 teaches students to incorporate audience awareness successfully into business writing. By the end of the course, students will be able to: 
  • analyze writing samples for attention to a specific audience; 
  • create documents specifically targeted to an identified audience. 
Goal Four: Principles of Persuasion and Reasoning 
ENG 116 teaches students the importance of logic and sound structure in argumentation. By the end of the course, students will be able to: 
  • analyze and construct logically organized arguments. 
Goal Five: Skills of Listening and Public Speaking 
ENG 116 teaches students to improve their communication skills by successfully absorbing and challenging ideas from others’ speech and expressing ideas in their own. By the end of the course, students will be able to: 
  • illustrate the positive techniques of public speaking through regular contributions to class discussions and individual oral reports; 
  • illustrate successful listening skills, through class discussions and responses to oral reports of their classmates. 
Goal Six: Collaboration and Teamwork 
ENG 116 emulates the business world by requiring students to produce effective writing in groups. By the end of the course, the students will be able to:
  • integrate the five goals above in at least one group writing project during the semester.
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Materials
 

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Grading
 

Possible Assignments Include: (Subject to change each semester. The actual assignments are available in the Syllabus in the Blackboard course site on the first day of classes.)

Assignment
Points
Five Quizzes
5
Memo of Introduction
5
Letter Unit
20
Collaborative Unit
20
Job Application Unit
10
Midterm Exam
20
Final Exam
20
Total:
100

Your final grade may be based on the following scale. Please note that you must also pass at least several exams in order to pass the course, regardless of your scores on the other assignments.

Grading Scale
A
90-100
B
80-89
C
70-79
D
60-69
F
Fewer than 60 points
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Exams
 

There are 2 exams in this course.

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Last Updated: September 15, 2011