Process
To accomplish the task follow these steps:
1. Choose your group (3-4 students max.) and the business letter type. Note that groups or teams in the class have to be distributed homogenously. The teacher/supervisor will assist you on this.
2. Once you have picked up a business letter type follow the appropriate resources to write an accurate version (check the business letter evaluation rubric for help). You may need to check your stationary supplier web page:
| Stationary Supplier | UK Office Direct | http://ukofficedirect.opnet.co.uk |
Business Letters
| Inquiring | Online Technical Writting: Inquiry letters | http://www.io.com/~hcexres/textbook/inquire.html |
| The Owl at Purdue | http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/657/01 | |
| Placing an order | About.com | http://esl.about.com/library/writing/blwrite_order.htm |
| 4HB.com | http://www.4hb.com/letters/index3.html | |
| Complaining | Bussines Balls.com | http://www.businessballs.com/complaintsletters.htm |
| Online Technical Writting: Complaints and Adjustment Letters | http://www.io.com/~hcexres/textbook/complnt.html |
Other useful links
| Tips for writing | The Owl at Purdue | http://owl.english.purdue.edu/ |
| Dictionaries | Cambridge dictionary | http://dictionary.cambridge.org |
| Dictionary Refence | http://dictionary.reference.com | |
| Your Dictionary.com | http://www.yourdictionary.com | |
| English Grammar | Internet Grammar of English | http://www.ucl.ac.uk/internet-grammar |
3. Now you are ready to write the business letter you have chosen.
4. Once your letter finished, give it to your teacher who will exchange it with another team that has written the same letter type.
5. Now it is time to assess and evaluate your partner's letter, to do so follow the correction symbols sheet and fill in the business letter evaluation rubric. You can also check the peer review evaluation rubric.
6. Both, the letter corrected according to the correction symbols together with the business letter evaluation rubric already filled in will be collected by the teacher, who will check your correction notes and evaluation.
8. Prepare a 10-minute oral presentation showing the steps your team has followed to write the letter, as well as the final version (see the oral presentation evaluation rubric). You can check these resources to improve your presentation:
| Oral Presentations | Oral Presentations. Do's and Dont's | http://www.eslpartyland.com/teachers/listening/presentations1.htm |
| Guidelines for Oral Presentations | http://go.owu.edu/~dapeople/ggpresnt.html |
If it is the first time you use the PowerPoint, check these tutorials.
| PowerPoint tutorials | Power Point in the Classroom | http://www.actden.com/pp/ |
| PowerPoint Tutorial | http://einstein.cs.uri.edu/tutorials/csc101/powerpoint/ppt.html |