An overview

of Writing 3
LECTURER: DR. ANH T. TON-NU
Course objectives:
7.1 Knowledge: Students will be able to:

+ understand and master the format, structure, content and vocabulary related to two kinds of business
correspondence in Writing 2: (i) writing emails and (ii) writing letters to reply to an email or a letter; describe
events at workplace;

+ know 3 more types of business correspondence such as (1) action minutes; (ii) press release and (iii)
guidelines;

+ understand, know and apply the knowledge of those documents in business correspondence.
Course objectives (cont’d):
7.2 Skills: Students will be able to:

+ analyze the sample documents whose contents are related to the course;

+ apply the acquired knowledge to do their writing exercises;

+ draft their communicated opinions and write the documents needed in similar cases.
Course objectives (cont’d):
7.3 Attitude: Students should:

+ be aware of the importance of Business Correspondence;

+ assess if a document has been well-written.

+ be self-conscious of writing stylistic, comprehensive and appropriate documents.

At the end of the course, students are expected to achieve writing skills at level mid-B2 (CEFR).
Students are encouraged to take BEC Vantage certificate for self-evaluation of their language abilities.
Assessment:
- Class attendance and class participation: 10%

- Mid-term test: 30%

- Final Exam: 60%

Lesson 1.
Follow-up email
& Structure of a
paragraph
Common mistakes in email
writing:
An email from a student written to her professor asking for feedback on her writing:

Dear Mrs. Smith,

I am writing to ask you for feedback on my discussion chapter. After doing all the necessary
research and taking your advices, I have carefully written the chapter. However, I am still not so
sure if I am on the right track. I hope you can point out the mistakes I have made and give me
some advices to improve my work.

The discussion chapter is attached with this email. Thank you in advance for your time.

Your faithfully,

Mai
Structure of a
paragraph
Structure of a
paragraph