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DOCUMENT RESUME ED 368 983 CE 066 413 AUTHOR Bur:., Lorna TITLE Making the Point: Writing in the Workplace. Mercer County Community Coll., Trenton, N.J. INSTITUTION SPONS AGENCY Office of Vocational and Adult Education (ED), Washington, DC. National Workplate Literacy Program. PUB DATE 94 VA198A2090 CONTRACT NOTE 143p.; For related documents, see ED 351 578-599 and CE 066 398-418. Tacing Guides (For PUB TYPE Classroom Use Guides Tests/Evaluation Instruments (160) Teacher) (052) EDRS PRICE MF01/PC06 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS Adult Basic Education; Adult Literacy; Basic Skills; *Business Correspondence; Business English; *Job Skills; Learning Activities; *Literacy Education; Skill Development; *Writing Instruction Workplace Literacy IDENTIFIERS ABSTRACT This workbook, designed for workplace literacy courses, contains materials for a business writing course. The course provides strategies for presenting ideas clearly and accurately. Introductory materials include objectives, a topical outline, and information on time for the course and continuing education credits. The 16 sessions of the course cover the following topics: analyzing an author's purpose, the reader, the style, and the tone; pre4riting--brainstorming, organizing, and freewriting; writing clearly and correctly; editing; and using writing when solving problems. The lessons include information sheets and exercises, such as sentence completion, fill-in-the-blanks, rewriting, and simulations. 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'S ' T.r,Z% ' , .,....:'... .:,,,..... 2 BEST COPY AVAILABLE Making the Point: Writing in the Workplace Mercer County Community College Division of Corporate and Community Programs 1200 Old Trenton Road Trenton, NJ 08690 Elaine S. Weinberg Director, Workplace Skills Grant Prepared under a National Workplace Literacy of Education funded through the United States Department 1994 ACKNOWLEDGMENT Education Lorna Senior College Mercer Burt, thanks Community County Through her valuable Specialist/Curriculum Developer for creating this manual. contributions employees in manufacturing and service industries learned concepts relevant to their existing jobs and strategies for learning new tasks if that opportunity should occur. 6 4 POINT WRITING 1 MAKING THE COURSE OUTLINE: and complete ideas to others with brief, clear It is essesntial to communicate our clearly and strategies for presenting ideas This course will provide messages. tips to apply the these sessions you will learn accurately to your reader. During do at work and at writing to any writing you may principles of good business home. OBJECTIVES: students will be able to: Upon completion of this course, to get their and letters fail analyze why complicated memos message across identify the reason for writing his response should be analyze the reader and what and tones choose appropriate styles effective order organize ideas into the most business writing, including apply the principles of good grammar and punctuation edit first drafts take appropriate action in writing respond to problems at work and write clear, precise letters and memos WRITING 1 MAKING THE POINT TOPICAL OUTLINE: analyzing the author's purpose, the reader, the style and tone prewriting brainstorming, organizing, freewriting writing clearly and correctly editing using writing when solving problems OTHER: Hours: 32 CEU 3.2 Page 1 # SESSION 1 WRITING 1 OBJECTIVES: session In order to write a work-related memo or letter, at the end of this students will be able to: understand the purpose of writing a memo understand the principles of good writing analyze why a complicated memo fails to get its message across apply the principles of good memo writing to simplify and reorganize a complicated memo identify and use complete sentences TOPICS: what is the purpose of a memo? why does a memo fail to get its message across? the principles of good writing sentence types METHODS: guided discussion of principles group work practice situations for discussion and writing ©Mercer County Community College Page 2 SESSION I WRITING 1 EVALUATION: pre-class exercise correction in class and self evaluation of class exercises Students will avoid writing complicated sentences and using large words that do not enhance their writing. They will write for a specific purpose and be aware of the importance of their audience in order to make their communications more effective. They will also be able to identify and correct sentence problems. MATERIALS: pre-class exercise ice-breaker game for two-way communication difficult memo Principles of Good Writing Tips for Effective Communication Sentence Types Complete Sentences Run-Ons ©Mercer County Community College Page 3 SESSION 1 TEACHER TIPS IntroductiGns 6 weeks. Course overview and what we hope to achieve in the next Ice-breaker and pre-class exercise. what's the purpose of writing a memo/letter? Discussion its message across. Discussion on why complicated memo fails to get Difficult Memo Handouts Principles of Good writing. Tips for More Effective Communication Groupwork - rewrite memo. and grammar. Each week time will be spent on mechanics, punctuation sentence structure. Session #1 9 ©Mercer County Community College Page 4 PRE AND POST CLASS EXERCISES Part 1 Fix any problems in the sentences below (grammar and punctuation.) The line supervisor, as well as other people on the line, have decided to 1. attend the company picnic this year. In order to complete the job what kind of form do you need to send to pete 2. your supervisor the employees lounge is next to the supervisors lounge so its easy to walk 3. into the wrong one During the meeting the speaker was shrewd clever and controlled 4. consequently the boards decision was to accept his proposal I think that I made less mistakes in this report then I did last time. 5. 1 0 @Mercer County Community College