Warm-Up 1

This is the post to which you add your Warm-Up 1 task as a Comment (i.e. click on the Comment button below). When you do that, don't forget to write your name on the post! You'd be amazed how much detective work I sometimes have to do!

Warm-Up 1 asks you to write a personal presentation for a web site. This is a general message that goes out to everyone who visits the web site of the new company you've just got a job with. I.e. it needs to be informative, but a bit general - and a good piece of advertising for your new employer. In other words, you need to show how smart your new employer is for hiring you!

You'll find a couple of useful links on the Warm-Up 1 page: one from the 'How to Do Things' site with some general advice, and an example of personal presentations from the Ericsson company.

When the Warm-Ups have all been marked and sent back (by me, David), I'll post a general comment in a post on this blog, with advice for everyone about Send-In Task 1.

It's time to get started!

It's 8th September and the leaves have begun turning gold - feels like it's Course Launch Day for the Business Writing course. We're starting a journey which will end just before Christmas … by which time we on the course team hope that you'll have improved your written business English no end! You're all advanced students of English, so you'll just have to accept that improving from a level which is already pretty good is going to be a slow process. We on the course team aim to give you the feedback and help you need to do this, though.

What happens now is Warm-Up 1 and Send-In 1. There's a podcast available which tells you a little about what you have to do, and the next post on this blog is the Warm-Up 1 post, which is where you actually post your Warm-Up.

You'll find the instructions for Warm-Up 1 and Send-In 1 in Module 1, together with some exercises to help you write good ones. Here's the direct link to Module 1:

Business Writing: Module 1