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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:
  1. Combine simple ideas into compound and complex sentences and punctuate correctly. 
  2. Identify and solve sentence problems (fragments, comma splices, and run-ons). 
  3. 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. 
  4. Evaluate business-related writing for tone, jargon, and other word choice considerations that could affect the reader’s reaction to the writing. 
  5. 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