Course Overview

Improve reading and writing skills related to technical English.

Learning Achievement

With globalization, there is a growing need to be able to prepare research and engineering reports, scientific articles, and patent applications in English, and to be able to participate in international conferences. In addition, understanding and writing scientific paper is crucial to disseminate research results with others. This course is designed to help develop skill and gain confidence in these areas.

Competence

Course prerequisites

Grading Philosophy

？ 15% Attendance:
？ Be in class on time! (In case of online class, join the teams meeting in time) If you are more than 15 minutes late, class credit on that day.
？ If you are absent more than 3 times (classes) then you fail the course.
？ 25% Participation, Homework, class quizzes.
？ 60% Final Exam.

Course schedule

Week 1: Research paper: Concept, types, structure of research paper

Week 2: Readability, Word order; Breaking up long sentences

Week 3: Abstracts

Week 4: Redundancy/Conciseness

Week 5: Titles

Week 6: Introduction, Paraphrasing

Week 7: Methods and Results

Week 8: Avoiding Ambiguity

Week 9: Discussion

Week 10: Conclusions
Week 1: Research paper: Concept, types, structure of research paper

Week 2: Readability, Word order; Breaking up long sentences

Week 3: Abstracts

Week 4: Redundancy/Conciseness

Week 5: Titles

Week 6: Introduction, Paraphrasing

Week 7: Methods and Results

Week 8: Avoiding Ambiguity

Week 9: Discussion

Week 10: Conclusions

Course type

Lectures

Online Course Requirement

Instructor

Islam Monirul Muhammad

Other information

15% Attendance:
Students are expected to be in class on time! Late more than 15 minutes will be counted as absent.
- Absent more than 3 times (classes) without prior notification will be considered fail in the course.
* All exams are closed book.
* Rules and regulations regarding examination as set forth by University of Tsukuba will be strictly observed.

Site for Inquiry

Link to the syllabus provided by the university