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VSB ENGINEERING COLLEGE, KARUR

AN AUTONOMOUS INSTITUTION
REGULATIONS 2023
B. E. / B.TECH. COMMON TO ALL BRANCHES
I SEMESTER
23HST101 PROFESSIONAL ENGLISH -I LT P C
30 0 3

OBJECTIVES:
 To improve the communicative competence of learners
 To learn to use basic grammatical structures in suitable contexts
 To acquire lexical competence and use them appropriately in a sentence and understand their
meaning in a text
 To help learners use language effectively in professional contexts
 To develop learners’ ability to read and write complex texts, summaries, articles, blogs,
definitions, essays and user manuals.

UNIT I INTRODUCTION TO EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION 1


What is effective communication? (Explain using activities) Why is communication critical for
excellence during study, research and work? What are the seven C’s of effective communication?
What are key language skills? What is effective listening? What does it involve? What is effective
speaking? What is effective Reading? What does it mean to be an excellent reader? What should
you be able to do? What is effective writing? How does one develop language and communication
skills? What does the course focus on? How are communication and language skills going to be
enhanced during this course? What do you as a learner need to do to enhance your English language
and communication skills to get the best out of this course?

UNIT 1 INTRODUCTION TO FUNDAMENTALS OF COMMUNICATION 8


Reading - Reading brochures (technical context), telephone messages / social media messages
relevant to technical contexts and emails. Writing - Writing emails / letters introducing oneself.
Grammar - Present Tense (simple and progressive); Question types: Why/ Yes or No/ and Tags.
Vocabulary - Synonyms; One word substitution; Abbreviations & Acronyms (as used in technical
contexts).

UNIT II NARRATION AND SUMMATION 9


Reading - Reading biographies, travelogues, newspaper reports, Excerpts from literature, and travel
& technical blogs. Writing - Guided writing-- Paragraph writing Short Report on an event (field trip
etc.) Grammar –Past tense (simple); Subject-Verb Agreement; and Prepositions. Vocabulary -
Word forms (prefixes& suffixes); Synonyms and Antonyms. Phrasal verbs.

UNIT III DESCRIPTION OF A PROCESS / PRODUCT 9


Reading – Reading advertisements, gadget reviews; user manuals. Writing - Writing definitions;
instructions; and Product /Process description. Grammar - Imperatives; Adjectives; Degrees of
comparison; Present & Past Perfect Tenses. Vocabulary - Compound Nouns, Homonyms; and
Homophones, discourse markers (connectives & sequence words).
UNIT IV CLASSIFICATION AND RECOMMENDATIONS 9
Reading – Newspaper articles; Journal reports –and Non Verbal Communication (tables, pie charts
etc,). Writing – Note-making / Note-taking (*Study skills to be taught, not tested); Writing
recommendations; Transferring information from non-verbal ( chart , graph etc, to verbal mode)
Grammar – Articles; Pronouns - Possessive & Relative pronouns. Vocabulary - Collocations;
Fixed / Semi fixed expressions.

UNIT V EXPRESSION 9
Reading – Reading editorials; and Opinion Blogs; Writing – Essay Writing (Descriptive or
narrative). Grammar – Future Tenses, Punctuation; Negation (Statements & Questions); and
Simple, Compound & Complex Sentences. Vocabulary - Cause & Effect Expressions – Content vs
Function words.

TOTAL : 45 PERIODS

LEARNING OUTCOMES :
At the end of the course, learners will be able
 To use appropriate words in a professional context
 To gain understanding of basic grammatical structures and use them in right context.
 To read and infer the denotative and connotative meanings of technical texts
 To write definitions, descriptions, narrations and essays on various topics
 To read and comprehend different types of reading materials

TEXT BOOKS:
1. English for Engineers & Technologists Orient Blackswan Private Ltd. Department of English,
Anna University, (2020 edition)
2.English for Science & Technology Cambridge University Press, 2021.
Authored by Dr. Veena Selvam, Dr. Sujatha Priyadarshini, Dr. Deepa Mary Francis, Dr. KN.
Shoba, and Dr. Lourdes Joevani, Department of English, Anna University.

REFERENCE BOOKS:
1.Technical Communication – Principles And Practices By Meenakshi Raman & Sangeeta Sharma,
Oxford Univ. Press, 2016, New Delhi.
2.A Course Book On Technical English By Lakshminarayanan, Scitech Publications (India) Pvt.
Ltd.
3.English For Technical Communication (With CD) By Aysha Viswamohan, Mcgraw Hill
Education, ISBN : 0070264244.
4.Effective Communication Skill, Kulbhusan Kumar, RS Salaria, Khanna Publishing House.
5.Learning to Communicate – Dr. V. Chellammal, Allied Publishing House, New Delhi,2003.

ASSESSMENT PATTERN
Two internal assessments and an end semester examination to test students’ reading and writing
skills along with their grammatical and lexical competence.
Course Program Outcomes PSOs
Outcomes 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 1 2 3
CO1 1 1 1 1 1 3 3 3 1 3 - 3 - - -
CO2 1 1 1 1 1 3 3 3 1 3 - 3 - - -
CO3 2 3 2 3 2 3 3 3 2 3 - 3 - - -
CO4 2 3 2 3 2 3 3 3 2 3 3 3 - - -
CO5 2 3 3 3 - 3 3 3 2 3 3 3 - - -
C101
1.6 2.2 1.8 2.2 1.5 3 3 3 1.6 3 1 3 - - -
(Average)

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