BOTK 1540 Business English
This course will provide students engaged in a business or office curriculum with the English language writing skills that are required for a career in business today. It will involve an intensive survey of grammar skills, sentence structure, word usage, vocabulary building, efficient dictionary usage, spelling, and word division. Proofreading skills will be emphasized. (3 lect.)
Major Topics
- Spelling rules
- Dictionary use
- Parts of speech
- Sentence analysis
- Capitalization
- Plural/possessive nouns
- Pronouns: personal, agreement with antecedents
- Verbs: agreement and mood, tense, regular/irregular
- Verbals
- Adjectives, adverbs, prepositions
- Simple, compound, complex sentences
- Writing of numbers
- Punctuation (commas, semicolons, colons, dashes, parentheses, brackets, quotation marks, ellipses, apostrophes, periods, question marks, exclamation points)
- Word division
- Vocabulary
- Preferred word usage
Outcomes
In order to successfully complete this course, the student will:
1. Use a dictionary skillfully and apply the spelling rules to avoid misspelled words in writing
2. Apply rules for using nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, and conjunctions correctly in well-structured sentences
3. Apply punctuation, capitalization, and number styles rules appropriately
4. Build basic business vocabulary
Other Information
Any information placed here must be adhered to by all instructors:
Recommended textbook: Ellison, Pat Taylor, and Robert E. Barry, Business English for the 21st Century, Current Edition. Prentice Hall Publishers