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Dec 02, 2024
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Catalog 2023-2024 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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BT 105 Business English 2 Lecture Hours: 3 Credits: 3
Emphasizes effective business writing by focusing on proper grammar, punctuation, and sentence structure. Covers the writing of business-related paragraphs.
Prerequisite: BT 104 with a grade of C or better; or consent of instructor. Student Learning Outcomes:
- Combine simple ideas into compound and complex sentences and punctuate correctly.
- Identify and solve sentence problems (fragments, comma splices, and run-ons).
- Compose business-related paragraphs and multi-paragraph documents in a clear, coherent manner that satisfies academic and professional standards, including the correct use of spelling, punctuation, verb and person tenses, pronoun agreement, parallelism, numbers, transition phrases and words, and modifiers.
- Evaluate business-related writing for tone, jargon, and other word choice considerations that could affect the reader’s reaction to the writing.
- Efficiently use reference tools.
Content Outline
- Sentence Parts
- Verbals
- Modifiers of nouns and pronouns
- Adjectives
- Adverbs
- Prepositions
- Conjunctions and Sentence Types
- Coordinate constructions
- Connectives in complex sentences
- Sentence Types
- Simple
- Compound
- Complex
- Clauses and phrases
- Appositives
- Proper Sentence Construction
- Writing of Numbers
- Punctuation and Capitalization
- Commas
- Semicolons and colons
- Dashes, parentheses, and brackets
- Quotation marks, ellipses, and apostrophes
- Periods, question marks, and exclamation points
- Capitalization
- Paragraph and Multi-Paragraph Writing
- Reference Tools
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