- Docente: Michelle Louise Nicholls
- Credits: 3
- Language: English
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Electrical Energy Engineering (cod. 9066)
Learning outcomes
At the end of this course students are provided with specific knowledge of advanced English language in scientific and technical field.
Course contents
Learning outcomes
At the end of this course students are provided with specific knowledge of how to write in English for a technical audience
1. Technical terminology to distinguish the technical voice.
2. Comparing Academic to technical writing
3. Writing for conciseness and how to achieve it
4.Technical Lab report writing
5.The Curriculum Vitae and its construction.
6. Presentations for a technical audience
7. Preparing for an Interview.
8. Grammar tense revision and grammars useful to the technical writer
Readings/Bibliography
Readings/Bibliography
Lecture notes and materials provided throughout the course and updated regularly
Teaching methods
Lectures, exercises, conversations in English, assessment of student's abilities in technical English: grammar, comprehension, reading, writing and speaking
Assessment methods
The achievement of learning objectives is assessed by means of one written test.
The written test, evaluates the student's ability to write concisely for a technical audience
Teaching tools
Face to Face lectures
Edmodo
Presentations
Office hours
See the website of Michelle Louise Nicholls