Course Overview

Improve reading and writing skills related to technical English.

Learning Achievement

(1) Familiarizes with the format followed by the vast majority of papers published in scientific journals today.

(2) Acquaint with a good idea to write short, clear sentences and put words in a sentence in the correct order.

(3) Capable of writing a good title and concise abstract that reflect writing skills

(4) Proficient in writing introduction and understanding how to paraphrase other people’s work without plagiarism

(5) Know the various ways of Structuring Paragraphs and Sentences to make the research work writing easy to read.

(6) Expertise in simple way of presentation of the results and methods with well-organized content to make accessible to the reader

(7) Skilled in explaining concise sentences using fewer words without losing any important content.

(8) Well trained in minimizing all possible sources of ambiguity

(9) Distinguish the way of presentation of the discussion part and concise conclusion.

(10) Know-how to respond and reply to the critics of the peer review and in modifying the manuscript.

Competence

Course prerequisites

Grading Philosophy

Practice exercises (50%) and (50%) submit a short review for a selected scientific paper.

Course schedule

Writing skill of Research papers are indented to demonstrate a student’s academic knowledge of a subject. This subject is very useful for undergraduate engineering student to write a clear and concise article. When attending the lecture, students are advised to take notes to gain a better understanding
Lecture 1: Format of a Research Paper; Readability
Lecture 2: Word order; Breaking up long sentences
Lecture 3: Titles, Abstracts
Lecture 4: Introduction, Paraphrasing
Lecture 5: Structuring Paragraphs and Sentences
Lecture 6: Methods and Results
Lecture 7: Redundancy/Conciseness
Lecture 8: Avoiding Ambiguity, Hedging and Criticizing
Lecture 9: Discussion and Conclusions
Lecture10: Viewpoints of reviewers and editors in scientific journals

Course type

Lectures

Online Course Requirement

Instructor

Sellaiyan Selvakumar

Other information

Basic knowledge of English writing skill is a prerequisite for writing scientific journal.
Avoid to use Phone and Don’t chat in class with other students.

Site for Inquiry

Link to the syllabus provided by the university