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Lesson | Business English Skills: How to Write Effective Openings and Closings to Emails (Coursera)

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Lesson | Business English Skills: How to Write Effective Openings and Closings to Emails (Coursera)

This lesson is part of a full course, Business English Networking. Take this lesson to get a short tutorial on the learning objectives covered. To dive deeper into this topic, take the full course.

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By the end of this lesson, you will be able to:

  • Write effective sentences to begin an email
  • Write friendly, closing sentences

Syllabus

WEEK 1
Lesson | Business English Skills: How to Write Effective Openings and Closings to Emails
This lesson is part of a full course, Business English Networking. Take this lesson to get a short tutorial on the learning objectives covered. To dive deeper into this topic, take the full course. By the end of this lesson, you will be able to: (1) Write effective sentences to begin an email; and (2) Write friendly, closing sentences.

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