The purpose of this course is to provide students with reading, listening, speaking and interaction skills. It covers fundamental, interpersonal and academic writing skills. Fundamental skills include reading, listening, note-taking, and note making, speaking and interacting skills. Interpersonal skills will cover conduct and interaction at the work place, conduction of meetings, writing an agenda and a notice of a meeting, deciding on items for discussion, organizing the agenda, inviting people for a formal meeting and writing of minutes. Academic writing will address report writing, seminars and workshop paper presentation; inter-office and intra-office communication with particular emphasis on business correspondence and memo writing.
