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Intenational Business Correspondence

Ningbo University via XuetangX

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 International Business Correspondence is a core compulsory course for international business majors in ordinary universities in China. It uses English as the main teaching language, focusing on the development process of international trade practices, and featuring real business cases that have occurred in mainstream foreign trade companies in Zhejiang.

The course focuses on analyzing the writing norms and experience skills of import and export parties using letters and telegrams for daily business communication and exchange in the main links of international business, such as establishing business relationships, inquiries, quotations, counteroffers, placing orders, payments, packaging, transportation, insurance, and claims, in order to improve the level of international business writing expression and enhance international business negotiation skills.



Syllabus

  • Chapter 1 Introduction to IBC
    • 1.1 Forms of IBC
    • 1.2 Characteristics of IBC
    • 1.3 Textbook and Reference
  • Chapter 2 Writing Skills in IBC
    • 2.1 4C's
    • 2.2 Format and Layout
  • Chapter 3 Establishing Business Relationship
    • 3.1 Ways to Efficiently Search Potential Clients
    • 3.2 Writing Outline
    • 3.3 Practices to Send the First Mail
    • 3.4 Specimen Mails and Useful Expressions
    • 3.5 Exercise Analysis
  • Chapter 4 Enquiry
    • 4.1 Implication and Category
    • 4.2 Writing Outline in the First Enquiry
    • 4.3 Writing Outline in the Repeat Enquiry
    • 4.4 Exercise Analysis
    • 4.5 Students' Groupwork Show
  • Chapter 5 Offer
    • 5.1 Implication and Category
    • 5.2 Live Business Cases Analysis â… 
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    • 5.4 Live Business Cases Analysis â…¢
    • 5.5 Full Factors and Writing Outline
    • 5.6 Students' Groupwork Show
  • Chapter 6 Counteroffer
    • 6.1 Writing Outline
    • 6.2 Dimond Model for Response to Counteroffer
  • Chapter 7 Order
    • 7.1 Writing Outline
    • 7.2 Business Practice in the Order
  • Chapter 8 Payment
    • 8.1 Popular Terms of Payment in Foreign Business
    • 8.2 Terms of Payment in IBC
    • 8.3 Specimen Mails and Useful Expressions
    • 8.4 Students' Groupwork Show
  • Chapter 9 Packaging
    • 9.1 Category and Marking on Packaging
    • 9.2 Terms of Packaging
    • 9.3 Specimen Mails
    • 9.4 Useful Expressions
  • Chapter 10 Shipment
    • 10.1 Practices on Shipment
    • 10.2 Terms of Shipment
    • 10.3 Specimen Mails
    • 10.4 Useful Expressions
    • 10.5 Students' Groupwork Show
  • Chapter 11 Insurance
    • 11.1 Practices on Insurance
    • 11.2 Terms of Insurance
    • 11.3 Specimen Mails
    • 11.4 Useful Expressions
  • Chapter 12 Claim and Settlement
    • 12.1 Writing Outline in a Claim
    • 12.2 Writing Outline in a Settlement
    • 12.3 Specimen Mails
    • 12.4 Useful Expressions
  • Final Test

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