1. 1 PhD programme Week 3

2. 2 Today Reading more about email Talking about your homework Organization of texts – Two kinds of business letter Important questions to ask before beginning to write

3. 3 Great email tips here Check and double check – Grammar – Punctuation – Capitalization Email proof reading tasks

4. 4 Email tips and tasks http://mcu.edu.tw/~ssmith/pe1writing/emailintro.p df http://mcu.edu.tw/~ssmith/pe1writing/emailintro.p df Don’t do Email Task 1! Do – Send me an email giving your student data – Ask a real question about the class or about MCU – Give an indication of what you hope to learn from the class – Include a link to the webpage I asked for last week

5. 5 Good news and bad news Examples? How do you prepare someone for bad news? Your most recent experience – Describe it – By telephone, or in person? – Letter or email?

6. 6 2 important questions to ask before writing Who? Why? Brainstorm and list – Different persons – Different reasons Task 1 is asking you: – Who for? – How do you know? – Where?

7. 7 Audience: first weeks on a PhD programme Overseas (USA or UK) An email to your grandma An email to your partner Read the top of page 10

8. 8 Problem-solution writing task Instructions here, but these are for younger studentshere Choose your own “problem” Or perhaps – The low English achievement of Taiwan undergraduate students – The poor communication between teachers and administrators at MCU – The poor safety record of China Airlines – The inexperience of newly promoted managers