• Level 6
  • 20 Credits
  • 0.1667 EFTS
  • Delivery type:
    Online only
  • Course duration: 16 weeks
  • Course cost:
    $890 NZ Domestic
    $2,104 NZ International
  • Workload - Approximately 13 hours per week
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The ability to communicate clearly, concisely, and in plain English is an essential skill for all professionals.  This course will teach you how to effectively apply the principles of plain English to documents in your profession. On successful completion of this course, you will be able to critically evaluate your writing and the writing of others and produce clear, accurate and reader-centred documents that conform to the principles of plain English.

This course replaces 72280 Writing for Specific Purposes

On successful completion of the course, you will be able to

  • apply principles of plain English writing to professional writing
  • develop effective writing principles and guidelines appropriate to your own profession
  • critically evaluate a range of documents within your profession
  • write high-quality documents for your profession.

Assessment

This course is 100% internally assessed

Textbooks

There is a textbook required for this course. Visit our textbook page for more information.

How to enrol

Before enrolling in this course you need to:

  • choose the qualification you will study the course under
  • check the order that courses in the qualification should be studied in the Qualification Structure table. This is in the Choose courses and apply tab on the qualification page.