Professional Writing Skills
About the Course
Effectively communicating through writing in the workplace remains a highly desirable skill, irrespective of one’s profession. This interactive, activity-based course covers elementary conventions in professional writing to communicate over e-mails and other similar formats.
Lecture Modules
- Types and Essential Components of Communication
- Guiding Questions for All Forms of Communication
- Defanging English
- Spoken vs Written Communication
- Emails vs EG notes
- Practising Summarising and Scanning
- Writing Subject Lines
- Acing Salutations, Sign-offs, and Signatures
Structure of an Email
>First Message (Complaint/Request/Apology)
>Response Message
- Chain-email Etiquette
- Formatting an Email
- Breaking Down the Writing Process >Drafting
>Buddy-Reading
>Revising
- Third-Person Perspective
- EG Note: Purpose and Format
- Minutes of a Meeting: Purpose and Format
- Handling Criticism in Writing
- Discussing Participant-Submitted Queries
A course by
JG
Jahnavi Gupta
English Language Instructor
LS
Lakhvinder Singh
Project Officer, IIT Jammu
Course Objectives
- To gain confidence in communicating through writing
- To familiarise learners with conventions, etiquette, format, and components of written
professional communication over select media - To practice skills like summarising, proofreading, paragraphing and more for clear and
concise writing
About the Instructor
Jahnavi Gupta is an English Language Instructor at the HSS Department, IIT Jammu.