Languages
Academic Communication for Engineering 1
Module code: Q1155Z
Level 4
15 credits in autumn semester
Teaching method: Online seminar
Assessment modes: Coursework
This module offers training in English language communication skills required to effectively undertake academic studies in:
- Communications Engineering
- Robotics
- Electrical Engineering effectively.
As a ZJSU student, you will practise and develop subject-specific language and rhetorical skills in report writing. This can be transferred to other modules on your degree.
You will practise writing specific parts of engineering lab reports (introductions, methodology, results and conclusions), utilising language structures such as:
- nominalisation
- passive voice
- imperatives
- other functional forms.
Framed around familiar topics from your degree (step potential, circuit testing and engineering materials), you 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.