Module 1 — Effective
writing: Strategies
and principles
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Module 1 map
- Communication terminology
- Activity 1
- Choosing a proper communication channel
- Activity 2
- Communication models
- 'Noise' in communication
- Activity 3
- Assignment preparation task 2
- Desired response and purpose
- Activity 4
- Assignment preparation task 3
- Analysing your readers
- Identifying and classifying your reader
- Characteristics of your reader
- Assignment preparation task 4
- Progress check
- Putting ideas together
- Activity 9
- Ordering ideas within sentences
- Parallel structure
- Activity 10
- Assignment preparation task 6
- Paragraph and document flow
- Activity 11
- Topic sentences
- Controlling ideas
- Activity 12
- Organizing a paragraph
- Headings versus topic sentences
- Activity 13
- Paragraph and document flow
- Transitional words and phrases
- Activity 14
- Guidelines for constructing good paragraphs
- Assignment preparation task 7
- Progress check: Sentences and paragraphs
- Readability issues
- Making sentences shorter
- Activity 15
- Avoiding wordiness
- Activity 16
- Activity 17
- Using active rather than passive constructions
- Activity 18
- Verb-based
- Activity 19
- Assignment preparation task 8
- Discriminatory writing
- Types of discriminatory writing
- Alternatives to discriminatory writing
- Activity 20
- Progress check: Editing and revising skills