BT-103 · English for Communication/Official Syllabus
English for Communication (BT-103) - Official Syllabus
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Unit 1
Identifying Common errors in writing
- Articles
- Subject-Verb Agreement
- Prepositions
- Active and Passive Voice
- Reported Speech: Direct and Indirect
- Sentence Structure
2
Unit 2
Vocabulary building and Comprehension
- Acquaintance with prefixes and suffixes from foreign languages in English to form derivatives
- synonyms
- antonyms
- Reading comprehension
3
Unit 3
Communication
- Introduction
- Meaning and Significance
- Process of Communication
- Oral and Written Communication
- 7 c’s of Communication
- Barriers to Communication and Ways to overcome them
- Importance of Communication for Technical students
- nonverbal communication
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Unit 4
Developing Writing Skills
- Planning, Drafting and Editing
- Precise Writing
- Précis
- Technical definition and Technical description
- Report Writing: Features of writing a good Report
- Structure of a Formal Report
- Report of Trouble
- Laboratory Report
- Progress Report
5
Unit 5
Business Correspondence
- Importance of Business Letters
- Parts and Layout
- Application
- Contents of good Resume
- guidelines for writing Resume
- Calling/ Sending Quotation
- Order
- Complaint
- Tender
Laboratory Experiments
- Listening Comprehension
- Pronunciation, Intonation, Rhythm
- Practising everyday dialogues in English
- Interviews
- Formal Presentation
Reference Books
- Technical Communication : Principles and practice — Meenakshi Raman, Sangeeta Sharma — Oxford
- Effective Business Communication — Krizan, merrier — Cengage learning
- Communication Skill — Sanjay Kumar, pushlata — OUP — 2011
- Practical English Usage — Michael Swan — OUP — 1995
- Exercises in spoken English Parts I-III — CIEFL, Hyderabad — Oxford University Press
- On writing well — William Zinsser — Harper Resource Book — 2001
- Remedial English Grammar — F.T. Wood — Macmillan — 2007
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