ACCREDITED SKILLS PROGRAMME

Duration

6 hours. Training times can be arranged according to your date and time requirements.

Who Should Attend

This programme is recommended for candidates who wish to learn and/or improve their Presentation Skills.

Prerequisites

Learners must be competent in Computer Literacy, Mathematical Literacy and Communications at NQF Level 3 or equivalent.

Delivery Method

This programme can be delivered on-site at your premises or virtually.

Learning Outcomes

Unit Standard: 119465 (5 credits)

Write/Sign For a Specified Audience and Purpose

• Narrative, discursive, reflective, argumentative, descriptive, expository, transactional, business correspondence, electronic texts, multi-media presentations.
• The purpose for writing/signing, the target audience and the context are clear in relation to the learning task or activity.
• The text-type, style, and register selected are appropriate to audience, purpose and context.
• Language appropriate to socio-cultural sensitivities is selected and used in an appropriate manner without compromising own values or arguments.
• Writing/signing is well-structured and conveys its message clearly.
• Critical thinking skills are used as strategies for planning.
• Brainstorming, mind-mapping, using spider diagrams, highlighting.
• Writing/signing reflects a clear point of view with sound reasons and facts to support arguments and logical development of a clearly articulated premise.
• Research skills are evident in the way data and information relevant to the context is identified, located, selected and synthesised for inclusion in the final text.
• Accessing information from different sources, sorting, categorising, classifying, sifting for relevance, validity and reliability, recording, reporting, formulating conclusions.

Use Language Structures and Features to Produce Coherent and Cohesive Texts for a Wide
Range of Contexts

• Meaning is clearly expressed through the use of a range of sentence structures, lengths and types.
• The use of paragraph conventions and links between paragraphs in texts, promotes coherence and cohesion in writing/signing. Their use is explained with reference to logical progression, cause and effect and/or contrast.
• The overall structure of a piece of writing/signing is controlled and the conclusion is clearly formulated.