Do you wish to improve your writing and reading skills for work and life? This online course will give you the opportunity to build on your current reading skills and knowledge, and identify what helps people to understand written texts. You will be given tasks to complete throughout the course, where your tutor will give advice and feedback throughout.
Course aim
The aim of this course is to support you with reading documents, and understanding the meaning of the text. This will be beneficial for work and in your personal life.
Do I need any particular skills or experience?
- This course is for beginners
By the end of the course I should be able to:
- Identify the purpose of at least 3 different texts.
- Identify important information in at least 3 different texts.
- Name at least 4 language features in at least 3 different texts.
- State the effect each identified language feature has on the reader, on at least 3 different occasions.
- From reading at least 3 texts, identify and explain implicit and explicit wording.
What else do I need to know?
This is an online course therefore you will need use of a laptop with zoom, together with access to WEA's Canvas to use the resources during each session. Ideally you need to be able to use Word.
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