Course Overview
Course Purpose
This course is intended to promote clear, unambiguous communication. It requires learners to follow a process in writing workplace specific texts. The ability to write plain language will improve the quality of business correspondence and other texts that are specific to a workplace environment. The achievement of this unit standard enables learners to recognise and use effectively textual conventions and features specific to business texts including those that require a particular format and/or specified legislated requirements. They carefully scrutinise their own and others' writing for accuracy, appropriateness and impact on different audiences and contexts. They edit and change where appropriate.
Course Outcomes
Learners credited with this unit standard are able to:
1.Use writing skills for specific purposes, audiences and contexts.
2.Access, process, re-organise, and synthesise information in order to present it.
3.Use appropriate language conventions, textual features and style for specific workplace purposes.
4.Draft and edit texts.
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