Northeast Wisconsin Technical College
10-106-131 020808 Business English Essentials
Outline of Instruction

Course Information
Description10-106-131 BUSINESS ENGLISH ESSENTIALS ...develop grammar and proofreading skills to communicate professionally in writing. Focuses on the development of grammar, word usage, and punctuation, in order to compose and edit error-free business documents. (Corequisite: Admitted into the Administrative Professionals program OR admitted into the Health Office Professional program, OR admitted into the Office Professional program.)
Total Credits3
Prior Learning Assessments
None
Course Competencies
  1. Use resources to improve business communications.
  2. Examine the eight parts of speech.
  3. Construct effective sentences.
  4. Use nouns and pronouns properly.
  5. Capitalize words using established rules.
  6. Use verbs properly.
  7. Achieve subject-verb agreement in sentences.
  8. Use adjectives and adverbs effectively.
  9. Use prepositional phrases effectively.
  10. Use punctuation properly in writing.
  11. Express numbers correctly in writing.
  12. Use standard proofreading and editing revision marks.
  13. Proofread business documents to eliminate grammatical errors.