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Technical Writing and Presentation Skills Objectives

The document outlines a course on technical writing and presentation skills. The objectives are to enhance language skills and develop critical thinking. The course covers presentation skills, essay writing, academic writing, technical report writing, and progress report writing. Essay writing includes descriptive, narrative, discursive and argumentative styles. Academic writing focuses on writing research papers and proposals. Extensive reading is required for vocabulary building. The course scheme provides weekly topics that cover various writing styles and presentation skills over 16 weeks for a total of 42 credit hours. Recommended books are also listed.

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Technical Writing and Presentation Skills Objectives

The document outlines a course on technical writing and presentation skills. The objectives are to enhance language skills and develop critical thinking. The course covers presentation skills, essay writing, academic writing, technical report writing, and progress report writing. Essay writing includes descriptive, narrative, discursive and argumentative styles. Academic writing focuses on writing research papers and proposals. Extensive reading is required for vocabulary building. The course scheme provides weekly topics that cover various writing styles and presentation skills over 16 weeks for a total of 42 credit hours. Recommended books are also listed.

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Technical Writing and Presentation Skills

Objectives:

The students will be able to:

 Enhance language skills and


 develop critical thinking

Course Contents

 Presentation skills
 Essay writing
Descriptive, narrative, discursive, argumentative
 Academic writing
How to write a proposal for research paper/term paper
How to write a research paper/term paper (emphasis on style, content, language, form, clarity,
consistency)
 Technical Report writing
 Progress report writing

Note: Extensive reading is required for vocabulary building

Recommended Books:

Technical Writing and Presentation Skills

a) Essay Writing and Academic Writing

1. Writing. Advanced by Ron White. Oxford Supplementary Skills. Third Impression 1992. ISBN 0
19 435407 3 (particularly suitable for discursive, descriptive, argumentative and report writing).

2. College Writing Skills by John Langan. Mc=Graw-Hill Higher Education. 2004.

3. Patterns of College Writing (4th edition) by Laurie G. Kirszner and Stephen R. Mandell. St.
Martin’s Press.

b) Presentation Skills

c) Reading

The Mercury Reader. A Custom Publication. Compiled by norther Illinois University. General
Editiors: Janice Neulib; Kathleen Shine Cain; Stephen Ruffus and Maurice Scharton. (A reader
which will give students exposure to the best of twentieth century literature, without taxing the taste
of engineering students).
Scheme of Studies SP-2020
Technical Writing and Presentation Skills
W
credit Events of
k Syllabus Content
hours Week
No.
Essay Writing
Intro to Essay Writing / Making an Outline/ Writing Thesis
1 Statement/ Developing Paragraph 3  
Descriptive Essays/Describing Sights and Sounds through extensive
use of expressive adjectives/ similes
Narrative Essays/ Point of view /Writing interesting beginnings/
2 3  
Developing plots
Discursive Essays / Balanced Argument, Quiz
3 3
Argumentative Essays-Develop Logical Arguments (5 marks)
Academic Writing
4 Research proposal Making/ Emphasis on style content and language, 3  
Form, Clarity, Consistency
Assignmen
Research Proposal Writing
5 3 t
APA Writing Style
(15 marks)
6 Research Paper Writing 3
7 Research Paper Writing 3  
Mid- Term Exams
8    
April 2020
Technical Report Writing
9 3  
Definition, Characteristics, Stages etc.
Quiz
10 Short Report Writing 3
(5 marks)
11 Long Report Writing 3  
12 Progress Report Writing 3
Presentation Skills
13 Intro to Presentation Skills/ Verbal and Non-Verbal components/ 3
Planning and Organizing
Presentatio
14 Verbal and Non-Verbal components/ Planning and Organizing 3 n
(10 marks) 
15 Revision 3  

16 Final Term Exam


2020 June

Total credit hours for Semester: 42


Recommended Books:
1. English & Communication for Colleges by Means

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