General Feedback on Warm-Up 1

I think that I've now given feedback to all the Warm-Up 1s I've received so far. If you've submitted one (in one way or another), but not received feedback, please get in touch and I'll get your submission marked as soon as possible.

This task was done well by everyone - and outstandingly well by some of you. Nearly everyone worked on the basis that you'd already got the job (i.e. this wasn't a job application), and most people struck the right balance between a lot of professional information and a little bit of personal information (to make you sound like a human being rather than a super-efficient robot!).

The grammatical point I kept coming back to was when to use capital letters. (There's an exercise about these in Block 1, by the way). There are some rules about which words should be capitalised in English, and it's just as odd to put capital letters where they shouldn't be as it is to miss them when they should! Mistakes like these are treated unreasonably harshly by readers of your formal written English, unfortunately, with higher standards being applied to people who clearly don't have English as their first language than to people who do! I.e. we native speakers can get away with mistakes which would be seen as evidence of stupidity or carelessness if you make them!

Take a look at the exercise and feel free to get back to me with questions if you have them.

Good luck with Send-In Task 1!