Features of the Study Materials

This CD-ROM aims to challenge you with relevant, Bank-focused information about report writing that is designed to improve your professional writing skills. It encourages you to reflect on your current work-related writing practices and to help you approach them more effectively.

Learning Objectives

At the beginning of each module, we present you with some specific learning objectives, detailing what we expect you to get out of the module. The objectives are not all-encompassing. You will also have your own goals that you set out in Module 1, as well as specific objectives for each module. Once you have completed each module, we encourage you to revisit your overall goals and specific objectives to reflect on whether you have achieved them.

Activities

Many of the pages on this CD-ROM are interactive, providing examples, exercises, quizzes, activities, etc. These activities give you the chance to think about the topics you have been reading about, to give personal responses to the material, test your knowledge, and analyze case material. In most cases, you can simply enter your answers right on the screen. You should not send your responses to these activities to your tutor. (Send only completed assignments to your tutor.) For each of these activities, you will be able to compare your answers with those that we have provided as model answers.

The activities form a key element of the teaching in these modules, so you should not skip them. Make a commitment to completing the activities, and you will be able to improve your writing skills through this course.

Background Readings

Supplementary material appears on this CD-ROM in the form of Background Readings. Please read this material—in print or onscreen—at your own pace to reinforce course content.