SECOND SEMESTER 2023-2024

Course Handout Part II

In addition to part-I (General Handout for all courses appended to the time table) this portion gives further
specific details regarding the course.

Course No. : BITS F112

Scope and Objective of the Course:

The main objective of the course is to help the learners develop skills in writing technical reports and making
academic presentations. The focused skill areas are meant to enable students to write their PS, LoP/DoP reports
and theses.

Textbook:
1. Hewings, Martin and Craig Thaine. 2014. Cambridge Academic English (Advanced) Student’s Book. 1st
South Asian Edition. Delhi: Cambridge University Press.

Reference Books:
1. Ewald, Thorsten. 2017. Writing in the Technical Fields: A Practical Guide. 2nd ed. Ontario: Oxford
University Press.
2. Riordan, Daniel G. 2014. Technical Report Writing Today. 10th ed. Boston: Wadsworth.
3. Laplante, Phillip A. 2019. Technical Writing: A Practical Guide for Engineers, Scientists, and
Nontechnical Professionals. 2nd ed. London: CRC Press.
4. Finkelstein, Leo, Jr. 2007. Pocket Book of Technical Writing for Engineers and Scientists. 3rd ed.
New York: McGraw-Hill.
5. Holloway, Brian R. 2014. Technical Writing Basics. 4th ed. Harlow: Pearson.
6. Kmiec, David and Bernadette Longo. 2017. The IEEE Guide to Writing in the Engineering and
Technical Fields. New Jersey: Wiley.

In addition to the sources mentioned above, students will be required to go through a number of online
resources made available at various points in the course.
Course Plan:

Lecture Chapter in
Learning objectives Topics to be covered
No. the Textbook
Understand the nature Course overview: importance; objective;
1 and purpose of the topics; assessment.
course
Discover different Overview of technical communication: RB1: Ch. 1.
aspects of technical writing in the technical workplace;
2 communication attributes of technical writing; the writing
process; the means to master technical
writing.
Acquire effective Elements of effective writing: technical RB1: Ch. 2–
grasp of elements of sentences; technical paragraphs; 5;
technical writing parallelism, lists, and layout; routine
3–8 correspondence

9-12 Acquire effective Overview of punctuation and grammar; RB1:

13-18 Acquire effective Technical definitions and descriptions; RB1: Ch. 12;
grasp of elements of instructions, procedures, and manuals Ch. 13
technical writing
Become competent to Types of reports: documents that report on RB1: Ch. 6.
practice-draft parts of past events or completed tasks; documents
various reports that report on ongoing tasks (progress
19–20 reports); documents that recommend
future actions; documents that define
standards (specifications); lab reports.
Acquire the ability to Formal reports: parts of a formal report; RB1: Ch. 7;
21–23 practice-draft parts of formal report pagination; references and Ch. 9.
a formal report; Citations;
Learn the process of Preparatory steps for writing reports:
writing and revising planning your document; drafting and
parts of a formal revising your document;
Report; Methods and sources of data:
Understand the interviewing; surveying; observing and
sources of your data testing; published information.

Learn to use Use of illustrations: putting graphics into RB1: Ch. 10.
24–25 illustrations reports; rules for incorporating report
graphics; avoiding graphical
misrepresentation.
25-28 Recapitulate Revision, Recap and Writing practice RB1: All
and revise chapters
 the
concepts
while
practising

Evaluation Scheme:

Weighting(%) Nature of
Component Duration Date & Time
Component
Mid-semester 90 Minutes 30 As announced CB
Test in the
timetable
Assignments To be 30 To be OB
announced announced
Class Varying 10 Distributed OB
participation throughout the /
semester CB
Comprehensive 3 Hours 30 As announced CB
Examination in the
timetable

Chamber Consultation Hour: The consultation hours will be shared on the CMS.

Notices: Notices, if any, will be displayed on the CMS. Please join section L.

Make-up Policy: Make-up cases will be permitted in line with the existing institute policy.

Academic Honesty and Integrity Policy: Academic honesty and integrity are to be maintained by all the
students throughout the semester and no type of academic dishonesty is acceptable.

INSTRUCTOR-IN-CHARGE