Writing for Various Communicative Contexts

Develop your writing skills to suit a range of professional, academic, and personal communication needs. This course is ideal for students, professionals, business owners, and anyone who wants to improve their ability to write clearly, appropriately, and effectively in different situations. Writing is not one-size-fits-all. This course teaches you how to adapt your writing style, tone, and format to meet the needs of diverse audiences—whether you’re crafting a formal business letter, an email, a report, a social media post, or persuasive content.

You will learn how to:

  • Choose the right tone and format for each communication style

  • Structure and organise your thoughts clearly

  • Write confidently across different platforms and situations

  • Communicate your message effectively in both written and digital formats.

This course empowers you to write with clarity, confidence, and impact—no matter the audience or context.

Learners at this level write/present/sign texts with complex subject matter and a need for various levels of formality in language and construction. They select text type, subject matter and language to suit specific audiences, purposes and contexts. Writers/signers can use linguistic structures and features to influence readers/their audience. They draft, redraft and edit own writing/signing to meet the demands of a range of text-types. They use language appropriate to the socio-cultural, learning or workplace/technical environment as required. They explore presentation techniques as an alternative to writing/signing own texts..

Course Content

  • The purpose for writing/signing, the target audience and the context are clear in relation to the learning task or activity.
  • The text-type, style, and register selected are appropriate for the audience, purpose and context.
  • Language appropriate to socio-cultural sensitivities is selected and used in an appropriate manner without compromising the author’s own values or arguments.
  • Writing/signing is well-structured and conveys its message clearly.
  • (Incl 1.6) Critical thinking skills are used as strategies for planning.
  • (1.7) Research skills are evident in the way data and information relevant to the context is identified, located, selected and synthesised for inclusion in the final text.
  • Meaning is clearly expressed through the use of a range of sentence structures, lengths and types.
  • The use of paragraph conventions and links between paragraphs in texts, promotes coherence and cohesion in writing/signing. Their use is explained with reference to logical progression, cause and effect and/or contrast.
  • The overall structure of a piece of writing/signing is controlled and the conclusion is clearly formulated.
  • Writing/signing produced is appropriate to the audience, purpose and context. Corrections are an improvement on the original.
  • Control of grammar, diction/clarity of sign, sentence and paragraph structure is checked and adapted for consistency.
  • Logical sequencing of ideas and overall unity are achieved through redrafting.
  • There is clear evidence that major grammatical and linguistic errors are edited out in redrafts.
  • Inappropriate or potentially offensive language is identified and adapted/removed.
  • Non-accredited: Short course only  
  • Duration: 1h 30m
  • Delivery: Classroom/Online/Blended
  • Access Period: 12 Months 
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