Academic Communication for Engineering 1 (Q1155Z)
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Academic Communication for Engineering 1
Module Q1155Z
Module details for 2024/25.
15 credits
FHEQ Level 4
Module Outline
This module offers training in English language communication skills required to undertake academic studies in Communications Engineering and Robotics and Electrical Engineering effectively. ZJSU students will practise and develop subject specific language and rhetorical skills in report writing that can be transferred to other modules on their degree. They will practice writing specific parts of engineering lab reports (introductions, methodology, results and conclusions), utilising language structures such as nominalisation, passive voice, imperatives, and other functional forms. Framed around familiar topics from their degrees (step potential, circuit testing and engineering materials), students will also be trained in and practise the listening and speaking skills required to understand and contribute to lab workshops and lectures on engineering subjects.
Module learning outcomes
Create academic engineering texts containing discipline specific language and rhetorical features that communicate relevant meanings.
Interpret, analyse and produce oral discourse and genres typically found in academic Engineering and professional environments.
Develop individualised approaches to textual analysis and acquisition of subject specific language to support one’s own autonomous approach to future learning.
| Type | Timing | Weighting |
|---|---|---|
| Coursework | 100.00% | |
| Coursework components. Weighted as shown below. | ||
| Media | T1 Week 11 (5 minutes) | 40.00% |
| Report | XVAC Week 1 | 60.00% |
Timing
Submission deadlines may vary for different types of assignment/groups of students.
Weighting
Coursework components (if listed) total 100% of the overall coursework weighting value.
| Term | Method | Duration | Week pattern |
|---|---|---|---|
| Autumn Semester | Online Seminar | 2 hours | 10011111111 |
How to read the week pattern
The numbers indicate the weeks of the term and how many events take place each week.
Dr Fan Zhang
Convenor
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Mr Gavin Mensah-Coker
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Mr David Munn
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Dr Eljee Javier
Convenor
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Mr Matthew Walpole
Convenor
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