Is writing emails still difficult for you? You can spend forever on an email simply because you don't know how to start or how to finish it? You're having a tough time deciding on the right level of formality? Your emails are wordy and hard to read? Your subject line is not catchy and the body of your email is not informative? If you have these problems, - then you're in the right place. When running a business in a highly competitive world it's more important than ever to write clean and concise emails. Our course will help you achieve your goals.

Our course is based on the modern tendencies and standards in business emailing accepted worldwide, and tailored specifically to cater for the needs of professionals using email as the main means of their day-to-day workplace communication.

Benefits for the learners

• a completely self-paced course

• easily accessible from any device and place

• a lot of practice

Course Content

PART 1: REGISTER IN BUSINESS EMAIL WRITING

• language register

• levels of formality

• semi-formal vocabulary

• semi-formal grammar

PART 2: STRUCTURING YOUR EMAILS

• word order

• sentence order

• paragraph order

• subject line

PART 3: STRATEGIES

• be simple

• be concise

• be positive

• active and passive voice

PART 4: EMAILINGETIQUETTE

• To, CC, BCC

• abbreviations and emoticons

Every topic of this course is covered in a short video which will take you only one or two minutes to watch. Feel free to rewatch the videos as many times as you need. Don't forget that you can always switch on the subtitles.

After you have watched the video, there is an assignment that will help you put theory into practice.

There is a final task where you need to rewrite one of your recent emails and make use of everything that you've learned in the lessons.

Moreover, at the end of the course, you will be able to download a pdf with the course summary and, in addition, a lot of useful phrases and collocations which you can start using right away to enhance your writing style.

And remember, you can only learn to write through writing, so please try to complete those tasks which require changing sentences and drafting up emails even though they are time-consuming. Because practice makes perfect.