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Overview:

This workshop aims to raise the level of writing among administrative affairs’ managers and staff in various institutions;, to help them carry out their administrative duties professionally by producing  correct sentences  free of linguistic, grammatical and composition errors, and to equip them with the skills to edit official letters, administrative reports and meeting minutes in a professional and distinctive style,  providing them with the required knowledge and basic skills of functional writing in Arabic.
 

Structure:

To achieve the desired objectives, the workshop is divided into four parts:

1. Aspects of Writing Control: This part addresses the problems and challenges sometimes encountered by staff when dealing with the language issues of administrative writing (I think the definite “article” is not required as the structure parallels that of “academic writing/business writing/medical, etc.)

• Grammatical structure of administrative writing
• Basic rules of spelling
• Punctuation
• Common linguistic errors in  administrative writing

2. Writing Administrative Letters: This workshop reviews the necessary skills required in drafting administrative letters.

• Definition of administrative letters
• Types of administrative letters
• Main parts of administrative letters
• Skills for administrative letter writing
• Selected samples of administrative letters

3. Minutes Writing: This workshop presents the theoretical and practical aspects of minutes writing.

• Definition of minutes
• Minutes writing as a task
• Stages of minutes writing
• Drafting the minutes
• Selected samples of minutes

4. Report Writing: This workshop provides the participants with a collection of practical knowledge and information related to reports preparation and writing.

• The concept of report and its importance
• Aspects of the report
• General principles of report writing
• Report writing stages and procedures
• Specifications of good report
• Selected reports samples

Methodology:

Based on academic frameworks which combine theoretical and applied aspects in accordance with the basics of the Arabic language, this type of workshop  adopts the following learning methods:

• Presentations
• Applied samples of functional writing
• Group discussions 
• Writing activities
• Sources and websites

Learning Objectives:

1. Build/develop the participants’ skills in interpreting;
2. Conduct live interpreting exercises using a variety of audio-texts;
3. Introduce participants to note taking;
4. Conduct short memory boosting exercises.

Learning Outcomes:

At the end of the workshop, participants will be able to:

1. Identify the various types of administrative texts and their functions and aspects
2. Write administrative texts properly in accordance with generally accepted writing  conventions. 
3. Strengthen their administrative capacity  by using a clear, specific and positive writing style
4. Acquire the basic skills needed to edit administrative texts

Target Participants

The workshop is designed to meet the needs of the employees at various administrative levels, whether working in public or private sectors.

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