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Business Communications English Language

English for Professional Emailing

By James Aird, Ed.M Harvard
Rating: 4.3 out of 54.3 (38 ratings)
9,423 students
Created by James Aird
Last updated 11/2020
English
English
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What you'll learn

  • English for Professional Emailing
  • English for Business
  • English for Communications
  • Email Etiquette
  • English as a Foreign Language
  • English as a Second Language

Requirements

  • Learners should have lower-intermediate or above skills in ESL/English.
  • Learners should have the desire to quickly improve their emailing skills.

Description

In the English-speaking world, email is the preferred method of communication. Knowing how to email effectively is an essential skill. However, this area of English-language education all too often fails to keep up with the latest trends and developments, leaving students with an outdated, awkward and overly formal approach to emailing. This course aims to equip students not only with knowledge but also with the tools they need to stay flexible and professional in any email situation.

Master English for Emailing With This Comprehensive Course

  • An overview of the basics

  • Compose properly structured emails

  • Understand context

  • Learn most commonly used phrases

  • Learn proper formatting

  • Become competent in essential spelling, grammar and punctuation rules

  • Become proficient in email etiquette

  • Know which style/tone to use for which situation

  • Get real feedback on your email writing skills

Your emails are a reflection of you. Badly written emails can prevent you from getting a promotion, a raise, or a new job. Using casual  instead of formal language can be embarrassing and make you look uneducated. In other situations, overly formal emails signal to the reader that you don't have a solid understanding of context or tone.

By the end of this course, you will know how to write clear, polite and effective emails for any situation. This will make you stand out from other people sending emails because you will know what most of them -- even native English speakers -- do not.

Contents and Overview

We'll start with an overview of the basics. You'll learn how to create a professional email address and signature file, how to set up your inbox, and how to pronounce/transcribe email addresses

After the basics, you'll learn about subject lines -- why they're absolutely essential and how to write them effectively so that your emails actually get opened and read.

Moving on, we'll cover the structure of a typical email, breaking it down into three parts:

The Beginning: which greeting to use, depending on the situation and number of recipients.

The Middle: how to structure the actual message, by writing a proper introduction, developing the email's main idea with details and then concluding.

The End: the most common closings and the situations to which they apply.

Having achieved a solid understanding of these basic principles, you'll look at the most common types of email messages. You will learn:

  • How to introduce yourself in an email

  • How to make and respond to requests

  • How to make announcements

  • How to apologize

  • How to make and confirm arrangements

You'll learn how to use English politely, especially when making requests, and you'll learn how to use email as a scheduling tool, with a focus on correctly talking about dates and times.

Then, you'll learn about what comes after the writing of an email: finding and correcting mistakes. We'll cover six the most common mistakes made by native and non-native speakers alike and learn how to fix errors that a spell check would miss. We'll also cover the most important elements of punctuation and how to use them correctly so that your messages are clear and effective.

After learning these fundamental rules, you'll explore the differences between American and British English and you'll become familiar with the most common email expressions and abbreviations in use today. We'll also go over if and when to use those expressions and abbreviations, depending on the situation.

Most importantly, you'll learn the basic principles of an effective writing style, so that your messages are clear, confident and easy to understand. With the same goal in mind, we'll also look at how to properly format an email, an often-neglected area of email instruction.

In the final section, you'll learn about context. This means understanding what tone is appropriate, depending on the situation. You'll be able to differentiate among various levels of formality and you'll know which level to use depending on the context. We'll also look at different cultural communication styles and how to take them into account as you email.

Throughout the course, you will complete a wide range of quizzes and assignments, to test and solidify what you've learned.

Once you've completed English for Professional Emailing, you will not only know how to write clear, effective and professional emails, but you will also have a set of tools that you can use as you continue to strengthen your English-language skills. You will know how to write with clarity and confidence, a crucial skill in the 21st-century workplace, and you will make a good impression on your friends, colleagues and co-workers.

Who this course is for:

  • English as a Foreign Language students (ESL, EFL)
  • Students who are interested in learning English for specialized purposes and business.
  • Professionals who need to improve their emailing skills for work.
  • Students who need to improve their emailing skills for college/university.
  • International professionals.

Course content

10 sections • 61 lectures • 2h 31m total length

  • Introduction
    00:57
  • Why take this course?
    00:49
  • Course Objectives
    00:18

  • Preview00:26
  • Email addresses
    00:45
  • Domain names
    00:12
  • Preview03:02
  • Sending emails to multiple recipients
    05:26

  • Why are subject lines important?
    00:32
  • How to write effective subject lines
    01:29
  • Basic guidelines
    02:27
  • Review
    00:28
  • Subject line quiz
    7 questions

  • Introduction
    01:54
  • The Greeting
    01:33
  • Greetings for a single recipient
    01:42
  • Greetings for multiple recipients
    00:35
  • Names and titles
    02:53
  • Review
    01:37

  • Introduction
    01:42
  • The Body of an Email
    00:32
  • The Introduction
    01:22
  • Development
    02:38
  • The Conclusion
    01:53
  • Review
    01:21
  • Introducing and closing emails
    5 questions

  • Introduction
    01:34
  • How to end an email
    02:35
  • Signatures
    01:24
  • Signatures and other email features
    09:20
  • Review
    02:10
  • Greeting and closing quiz
    5 questions

  • Introductions
    07:01
  • Requests
    06:45
  • Polite language
    01:58
  • Polite language quiz
    8 questions
  • Polite English
    5 questions
  • Announcements
    03:39
  • Apologies
    03:50
  • Making and confirming arrangements
    03:34
  • Prepositions of time quiz
    10 questions
  • Arrange a meeting quiz
    4 questions
  • Arrange a phone call
    1 question
  • Fill in the blanks
    1 question

  • Introduction
    02:07
  • The importance of proofreading
    00:42
  • Spelling
    05:34
  • It's vs. its
    01:53
  • Contraction quiz
    10 questions
  • It's vs. its
    5 questions
  • Than vs. then
    01:28
  • Than vs. then
    8 questions
  • Good vs. well
    01:34
  • Good vs. well
    10 questions
  • They're, their, there
    01:13
  • They're, their, there
    10 questions
  • Too, two, to
    02:09
  • Too, two, to
    10 questions
  • Who's vs. whose
    02:24
  • Who's or whose
    10 questions
  • American vs. British spelling
    00:35
  • Spelling review quiz
    12 questions
  • Punctuation
    09:22
  • Punctuation quiz
    10 questions
  • Acronyms and abbreviations
    00:50
  • Acronym quiz
    5 questions
  • Style
    06:56
  • Active vs. passive voice
    8 questions
  • Emails expressions
    02:35
  • Email expressions quiz
    7 questions
  • Proofreading tips
    02:08
  • How to use Grammarly
    06:19
  • Proofreading assignment
    3 questions
  • How to format an email
    01:49
  • Formatting assignment
    1 question

  • Tone & formality
    00:58
  • Casual
    01:36
  • Formal
    02:41
  • Neutral
    05:40
  • Tone quiz
    6 questions
  • Formality assignment
    5 questions
  • Communicating across cultures
    00:27
  • High context v. Low context
    05:37
  • Age & Gender
    00:50
  • Review
    03:16

  • Final Project
    1 question
  • Congratulations!
    00:19

Instructor

James Aird
English Instructor
James Aird
  • 4.3 Instructor Rating
  • 38 Reviews
  • 9,423 Students
  • 1 Course

Hi! My name is James and I am a learning professional with over 5 years of experience in ESL education, along with English education for government and private sector clients.


I hold a Master Degree of Education from Harvard University, and I am committed to advocating for accessible life-long learning.

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