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This course will help you create application letters that effectively complement a CV. This course covers the structure and content of Application Letters, advice from our industry professionals and front-line recruiters about what to include in Application Letters, and language input on verbs, parallel structures, and tone and style.

The content of this course complements the skills and strategies covered in English@Work: CVs.

If you have not completed that course, enroll and enjoy!

By the end of this course, learners will have learned how to:

• write cover letters that have impact

• improve the content and structure of your cover letters

• use a variety of verb forms and tenses with greater accuracy

• employ parallel structures to make your writing easier to read

• adopt appropriate tone and style in your cover letter

There are five units in this course:

1-Writing an Effective Cover Letter

2-Verb Forms and Tenses

3-Parallel Structures

4-Tone and Style

5-Assessments

English

For close to 40 years, PolyU’s School of Hotel and Tourism Management has refined a distinctive vision of hospitality and tourism education and become a world-leading hotel and tourism school. Ranked among top hotel and tourism schools in the world, the SHTM is a symbol of excellence in the field, exemplifying its motto of Leading Hospitality and Tourism.
 
More than 2,100 students are enrolled in the School, and there are 70 academic staff from 21 countries, the majority of whom possess hospitality or tourism industry managerial experience - an important quality in an educational programme that provides practical and specialised business education.

The launch of Hotel ICON, our teaching and research hotel marks a new phase in the development of the SHTM. A purpose-built hotel fully integrating teaching, learning and research into a full-service environment, Hotel ICON gives a fresh impetus to our ongoing efforts in the advancement of hospitality and tourism education and research. With Hotel ICON now in full operation, the School will be producing even more quality graduates destined to rise as hospitality and tourism leaders in Hong Kong, in the region and around the world.

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University's School of Hotel and Tourism Management

This course will help you create application letters that effectively complement a CV. This course covers the structure and content of Application Letters, advice from our industry professionals and front-line recruiters about what to include in Application Letters, and language input on verbs, parallel structures, and tone and style.

The content of this course complements the skills and strategies covered in English@Work: CVs.

If you have not completed that course, enroll and enjoy!

English@Work: Cover Letters

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