This course has been specifically designed to meet the writing needs of students aiming for a specialization in areas of Management. The aims and objectives of this particular course are to introduce courseparticipants the importance, needs, varieties, and technicalities ofbusiness reports. Also Their reading skills are further enhancedthrough exposure to a variety of graphical sources such as charts,graphs and diagrams. Students are taught presentation skillsculminating in a PowerPoint presentation based on their term report
Things you will cover in this course:
- Overview of technical reporting, use of library and information gathering,
- administering questionnaires, reviewing the gathered information; Technical
- exposition; topical arrangement, exemplification, definition, classification and
- division, casual analysis, effective exposition, technical narration, description
- and argumentation, persuasive strategy, Organizing information and
- generation solution: brainstorming, organizing material, construction of the
- formal outline, outlining conventions, electronic communication, generation
- solutions. Polishing style: paragraphs, listening sentence structure, clarity,
- length and order, pomposity, empty words, pompous vocabulary, document
- design: document structure, preamble, summaries, abstracts, table of
- contents, footnotes, glossaries, cross-referencing, plagiarism, citation and
- bibliography, glossaries, index, appendices, typesetting systems, creating the
- professional report; elements, mechanical elements and graphical elements.
- Reports: Proposals, progress reports, Leaflets, brochures, handbooks,
- magazines articles, research papers, feasibility reports, project reports,
- technical research reports, manuals and documentation, thesis. Electronic
- documents, Linear verses hierarchical structure documents.
Reference material:
1. Technical and Business Writing for Working Professionals, Ray E. Hardesty, Xlibris Corporation, 15-Dec-2010, ISBN 14568194022. Successful Technical Writing/Instructor’s Guide, Bill Wesley Brown, Goodheart-Willcox Publisher, 01-Mar-193-Technology and Engineering.
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