ChE105 TECHNICAL ENGLISH COMMUNICATION SKILLS

Course objectives: The areas of technical communication assay to make learners linguistically aware and communicatively competent.
Special attention has been paid to the contemporary tests on language and industrial needs keeping in mind the current societal demands.

UNIT-I

General Communication Skills: This area exposes the learners to some standard varieties of linguistic communication.

1. Guided composition
1. Paragraph writing
2. Essay writing
3. Confusable words
2. Reading comprehension
3. Letter writing

1. Report writing
2. Corporate information
3. Technical words

UNIT-III
Vocabulary and Basic Language Skills: This unit offers the learners some basic aspects of language like vocabulary, structure and usage which are common to many contemporary tests.

1. Basic word list - A list of 500 words.
2. Idioms and phrases and their use.
3. Correction of sentences.
4. Analogies
5. One word substitutes
6. Antonyms & Synonyms

1. Developing Language Skills: 1. (Foundation Books)
2. Objective English for Competitive Examinations, Hari Mohan Prasad, Uma Rani Sinha, 3rd edition, Tata McGraw Hill

1. Effective Technical Communication, M.Ashraf Rizvi, Tata McGraw Hill
2. English for Engineers, Prepared by Regional Institute of English, South India, Bangalore (Foundation Books)
3. Cambridge Preparation Guide for TOEFL.
4. Dictionary of Technical Terms, F.S.Cripsin, Oxford IBH
5. Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
6. Cambridge Idioms Dictionary
7. Basic Correspondence & Report writing, R. C. Sharma, Tata McGraw Hill
8. Business Correspondence and Report Writing, R.C.Sharma, Krishna Mohan, Tata McGraw Hill
9. Dictionary of Misspelled and Easily Confused Words, David Downing, Deborah K.Williams, Tata McGraw Hill