[MUSIC] Hi, welcome to English for Effective Business Writing. We're excited to have you on board our course, and for us to be with you over the next few weeks as we learn how to write effectively for business purposes. Okay. The aim of this video is to explain how this course is organized and what you will learn over the next few weeks. This course aims to improve your business English writing skills by developing your use of vocabulary, grammar, understanding of different business writing genres and your ability to write professional business documents. Skills learned in this course will be used in the cross cultural communications course and help prepare you to produce the professional business documents in the Cap Stone project of our specialization. After completing this course you will be able to write business emails, write an executive summary, write a memo. Write persuasively in English, adapt content to purpose, context, and audience, and use appropriate style and tone of writing for business purposes. Okay, now this course is organized into 6 modules, including this introduction module and a concluding module. Each module is separated into two main lessons, one on content related to business writing and the other on language. The content lessons will focus on the genres of business writing, writing e-mails, memos and executive summaries. The language lessons will focus on business vocabulary, grammar, and common sentence structures used in business writing. Throughout the course, you will be able to test your skills through our quizzes, discussion forum activities, and peer assessments. We also highly recommend reaching out to your fellow classmates through social media. In our experience, students benefit a lot and can improve their English by joining Skype chats or Google Hangouts or Facebook groups. And don't ignore the discussion forum. Our experience has shown that participating in discussion form activities can have a positive impact on your vocabulary knowledge. Kay, we're really excited in having you with us so let's get started and enjoy the course. [MUSIC]