Reflection On Business Discourse

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What Happened?
On January 29, 2016, I was introduced to a course called Business Discourse. I was anticipating about what this course would be about. At first, I was thinking it have to do with some Professional Conduct or Etiquette because it goes by the name Business Discourse. However, after our Lecturer started to introduce the course and the requirements I started to clear up my understanding of what the course entailed. It is a course where you learn about very important documents needed for the business world. In this course I expected to learn how to prepare business documents such as Cover letter and Resume, Incident Report, Application Letter, Press Release, Letter of Recommendation, Letter of Resignation, among others. …show more content…

I now come to a better understanding of how to write an excellent Cover Letter. In this course I got to understand that a cover letter is always accompanied by a resume. I have learnt how to better structure and format a Cover letter and resume in order to be on top when applying for a job in the future. Writing application letter back in High school I thought it was the same as a cover letter.
Additionally, I thought cover letter was just a fancy name for Application letter. After doing a research for presentation on the letter of application I got to understand that the Letter of application is much different from a cover letter. Having learnt this information I was able to point it out to some of my colleagues who have a misconception of the documents.
For example, a Letter of Application can stands on its own, without a resume because it is a more detailed document whereas, a Cover letter is just a brief introduction of yourself so it have to be accompanied by a resume which would make it a complete document. Also, I have learnt that there are two types of application letter. There are Solicited and Unsolicited application letter: Solicited is where you are responding to an advertisement posted in the newspaper. While, Unsolicited is when you are inquiring about any available position. I did not looked on Curriculum Vitae (CV) in this course but during my research I got the understanding …show more content…

Secondly, I must admit that I found this course to be quite interesting and important to me as a future educator. This course have expand my knowledge on how to prepare very important document that I will be using in the future. I am now better able to write any of these documents in the correct way if I should be called upon to prepare one in the future. What I could have done differently was to pay keen attention to the other presentations that was done in class to educate me more about the other documents. Also, I could have practice to write one business document after each presentation during my spare

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