INTRODUCTION

Welcome to the course Writing Effectively for WHO. This Course Guide explains how the course works and how you can prepare yourself to complete it successfully within the course schedule. The overall goal of this course is to help you improve your confidence and your competence in written communication in English within the WHO context.

Throughout the course, you will explore principles and strategies of effective writing to meet WHO’s written communication needs.

Your work will consist of a number of readings and self-study activities followed by a module assignment that you will submit to your course tutor for review. In addition to helping you with any problems with learning materials and course work, your tutor will assess your assignments and give you detailed, individualized feedback. You will communicate with each other by e-mail.

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