ENGT 102: Course Content

OBJECTIVES: Familiarize students with the skills of research, documentation and project writings; Orient students to critical and creative practices through interdisciplinary readings

LEARNING OUTCOMES:   After the completion of the course, students will be able to:

apply argumentative and critical skills in written and oral communications

-          write and review scientific articles and conference papers

-          design formal research proposals and reports

-          use accepted citation and referencing systems in technical texts

      

 Unit 1: Technical Communication                       20 hrs
 1.1.     Argumentation                                                     Argumentative presentations (written and oral): using Stephen Toulmin’s Model (claim, ground, warrant, backing, rebuttal and modifier)

  1.2.      Proposals

 Research: concept papers

 Project:  project proposals

  1.3.      Reports

Technical Papers: Conference papers; Scientific journal articles; Structure: Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results, Analysis/Discussion, Conclusion, Acknowledgements, References;         Reviewing technical texts

 Project Reports: structure, writing process

 Memo Reports: structure, writing process

Unit 2: Critical Readings                                       12 hrs.

Theme I: Science and Society

1.      Vincent Dethier, “To Know a Fly”

2.      Carl G. Hempel, “Scientific Inquiry: Invention and Test”

3.      Armand Denis, “The Four-Tusked Elephant”

Theme 2: Human Condition

4.      Anton Chekov, “Swan Song”

5.      L. P. Devkota, “The Lunatic”

6.      Jared Diamond, “Adaptive Failure: Easter’s End”

Theme 3: Critical Thinking

7.      Bertrand Russell, “Keeping Errors at Bay”

8.      Pedro Antonio de Alarcόn, “The Stub-Book”

9.      Somerset Maugham, “Mr. Know-All”

Text Books:

Gerson, Sharon, and Steven Gerson. Technical Communication: Process and Product.8^th ed. New Delhi: Pearson Education, 2014.

Nissani, Moti, and Shreedhar Lohani. Flax-Golden Tales. Kathmandu: Ekta Books, 2008.

LSRW Lab Materials:

Audio files, Visuals, Team projects, Assignments etc. to be collected/developed by the course instructors.

EVALUATION

Evaluation	Writing			Other activities
Internal [50 marks]	Test (written/viva/listening)		20	Oral Presentations Assignments	10 10
	Work Record   [Reading and Writing]		10
End Sem. [50 marks]	Obj. [10]	Textual Reading Comprehension:	5 5	20 mins.
	Sub. [40]	Critical Readings Writing Argument Technical Writing	10 5 25	2 hrs 30 mins.