Philip Vassallo, Ed.D.
Phone: 732-721-7577 w Fax: 732-727-7491
E-mail: Vassallo@aol.com w Internet: www.PhilVassallo.com
Business Writing for the Nonnative English Speaker
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Audience
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Managerial, administrative, and technical employees for whom English is a second language, and who are responsible for writing e-mails, memos, letters, reports, and proposals.
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Duration
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Two days
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Description
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This interactive program relies on individual and collaborative exercises designed to strengthen the basic English skills of corporate employees. Participants will work on numerous exercises in sentence structure, diction, punctuation and other issues of Standard English usage.
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Scope
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· Review standard formats and etiquette for memos, letters and e-mail
· Learn rules for the most common ESL usage errors
· Correct sentences for pronoun usage and agreement
· Check for the most frequent sentence problems
· Understand rules for punctuation, capitalization, abbreviation, and numbers
· Practice English idioms, homonyms, and other tricky words and expressions
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Materials
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· Business Writing for the Nonnative English Speaker course manual
· The Art of E-mail Writing by Philip Vassallo
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Enrollment
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Limited to 12 participants
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Consultant
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Philip Vassallo, Ed.D.
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Assessment
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Pre-course customized 4S Writing assessments of participant-submitted samples (add one-half consulting day)
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