ACCREDITED SKILLS PROGRAMME

Duration

This programme is run over 1 day.

Delivery Method

Training times can be arranged according to your date and times requirements, delivered virtually or on-site at your premises by one of our professional facilitators.

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.

Unit Standards

Write/Sign For a Specified Audience and Purpose 

Learning outcomes:

•  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.
• 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, sitting 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

Learning outcomes:

•  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

Draft Own Writing/Signing and Edit to Improve Clarity and Correctness

Learning outcomes:

• Writing/signing produced is appropriate to audience, purpose and context. Corrections are an improvement on the original.
•  Control of grammar, diction/clarity of sign, sentence and paragraph structure is checked and adapted for consistency
• Logical sequencing of ideas and overall unity are achieved through redrafting
• There is clear evidence that major grammatical and linguistic errors are edited out in redrafts.
• Inappropriate or potentially offensive language is identified and adapted/removed
• Experimentation with different layouts and options for presentation is appropriate to the nature and purpose of the task.