Business Venture, a popular American and International English course for in-work students, has been updated and redesigned for its third edition. It now also includes 20 pages of TOEIC practice.

Writing is a very important part of your university study. You will write assignments that may range from one paragraph to several pages long, and will write answers on tests and exams that may be a few sentences long or a complete essays. During this course, you will have many opportunities to study and discuss examples of English academic writing. Naturally, you will also have many opportunities to discuss your own academic writing and the writing of your classmates. You will learn how important the rader is to the writer, and how to express clearly and directly what you mean to communicate.

Paragraph Writing takes students from sentence formation to paragraph writing through a process approach. This not only develops students’ paragraph writing skills, but also encourages them to become independent and creative writers. The back of the Student’s Book contains peer review forms and a grammar reference section. This book provides students with: •Focus on particular aspects of paragraph writing, such as topics, style and development •Writing support to help them with brainstorming, organizing ideas, writing topic sentences and supporting their ideas •Language support to help them with vocabulary, grammar and punctuation •Guidance on reviewing their own and their classmates’ writing in order to make revisions •Structured, graded writing assignments at the end of each unit. Paragraph Writing includes 12 units and additional materials. Teacher's guide supports the instructor by offering teaching suggestions, a discussion of marking and grading writing, ideas for supplemental activities for each unit, and answers to exercises in the student book.

«Sentence Writing introduces students to the mechanics of writing starting at the most basic sentence level. Basic structures are given and supported with grammar and vocabulary work, as well as work on spelling and punctuation, to give students a solid grounding on which to build their future English writing. Each topic-based unit ends with the «Put it together» section that summarizes the language of the unit in a creative engaging task. •Familiarizing learners with the parts of speech and basic punctuation •Clear explanations and carefully guided practice of common sentence patterns •Extensive practice of basic verb tenses to promote accuracy •Vocabulary support helping students express themselves on relevant topics •An introduction to topic sentences and simple paragraph structure»