Features of the Study Materials

This course challenges you with Bank-focused information about correspondence writing that is designed to improve your professional writing skills. It encourages you to reflect on your current work-related writing practices and helps you approach them more effectively.

Learning Objectives

At the beginning of each module, we present you with some specific learning objectives, detailing what we expect you to get out of the module. The objectives are not all-encompassing. You will also have your own goals, which you set out in Module 1. Once you have completed each module, we encourage you to revisit your overall goals and the specific objectives to reflect on whether you have achieved them.

Activities

Many of the pages in this course are interactive, providing examples, exercises, quizzes, activities, and so on. These activities give you the chance to think about the topics you have been reading about, to give personal responses to the material, to test your knowledge, and to analyze case material. In most cases, you can simply enter your answers right on the screen. For each of these activities, you will be able to compare your answers with those that we have provided as model answers. You should not send your responses to these activities to your tutor. (Send only completed assignments for your tutor to review.)

The activities form a key element of the teaching in these modules, so you should not skip them. Make a commitment to completing the activities, and you will be able to improve your writing skills through this course.

Assignments

For each module, you will submit an assignment to your tutor by uploading it in the assignment section in Moodle. Each assignment builds on the activities in the module and on the previous assignments. By the end of the course, you will have experience with writing all kinds of correspondence and receiving constructive critiques on them.