B.

Tech/BCA II year
FILENAME: Communication Practices-I

Course
1 number ENG-202
2 Course Title Communication Practices- I
3 Credits 3
Contact Hours
4 (L-T-P) 2-0-2
To develop learning about common forms of verbal and non-verbal communication in the work
Course place. To improve the accuracy of expressions.To learn to use communication in professional
5 Objective situations.
Students would be able to

1. Recognize the fundamentals of Technical Communication (Accuracy, Brevity and Clarity).

2. Employ Grammatical Techniques to make effective sentences.
3. Avoid Common Errors in Writing.
4. Write Short Stories.
5. Get exposure to writing in the scientific register.
6. Form arguments on topics of general interests.
7. Practice formal communication skills and Negotiation techniques.
8. Understand about Interaction in Formal Cross Cultural Domain, Body language in Cross
Cultural Domain.
9. Construct case-studies to have a better comprehension of the interaction.
10. Write Business emails, letters and learne-mail etiquette
11. Write Business memorandum
Course 12. Practice reading Comprehension by going throughtextsby renowned authors.
6 Outcomes
7 Outline syllabus: Communication Practices
7.01 ENG 202---.A Unit A Sentence Construction
7.02 ENG 202---.A1 Unit A Topic 1 Accuracy/Brevity/Clarity
7.03 ENG 202---.A2 Unit A Topic 2 Redundancy/Parallelism
7.04 ENG 202---.A3 Unit A Topic 3 Common Errors
7.05 ENG 202---.B Unit B Paragraph Writing
7.06 ENG 202---.B1 Unit B Topic 1 Short Story Writing
7.07 ENG 202---.B2 Unit B Topic 2 Writing on Technical Topics
7.08 ENG 202---.B3 Unit B Topic 3 Argumentative Writing (Any Topic of general interest)
7.09 ENG 202---.C Unit C Case Studies
Cross Cultural Communication/ Parameters of Global Communication,
7.10 ENG 202---.C1 Unit C Topic 1 Negotiation
7.11 ENG 202---.C2 Unit C Topic 2 Interaction/Body language in Formal Domain, Etiquette
7.12 ENG 202---.C3 Unit C Topic 3 Case Analysis : Theory and Practice
7.13 ENG 202---.D Unit D Professional Writing
7.14 ENG 202---.D1 Unit D Topic 1 Letters : Format and Types
7.15 ENG 202---.D2 Unit D Topic 2 Business E-mail
7.16 ENG 202---.D3 Unit D Topic 3 Memorandum
7.17 ENG 202---.E Unit E Reading Comprehension
Play: The Refund by Fritz Karinthy
7.18 ENG 202---.E1 Unit E Topic 1
7.19 ENG 202---.E2 Unit E Topic 2 Short Story: The Last Leaf by O.Henry
7.20 ENG 202---.E3 Unit E Topic 3 Reflection and Discussion on the texts
8 Course Evaluation
8.1 Course work: 30%
8.11 Attendance None
8.12 Homework 10 assignments, no weight
 8.13 Quizzes 7 best quizzes (based on assignments); 20 marks
Evaluation of work done on each lab turn in the lab notebook and feedback from oral quiz about
the work done that day. Zero, if the student is absent. 0.75N best marks out of N such
8.14 Labs evaluations: 10 marks
8.15 Presentations None
8.16 Any other None
8.2 MTE One, 20%
8.3 End-term examination: One, 50%
9 References
Raman, Meenakshi and Sangeeta Sharma. Technical Communication : Principles and Practice .New
Delhi: Oxford.
9.1 Text book (Reading materials to be supplied by the faculty)
1. Sharma, R.C and Krishna Mohan. Business Correspondence and Report Writing. New Delhi: Tata
McGraw-Hill.
2. Lesikar, Raymond V, Marie E Flately and Kathryn Rentz. Business Communication making
Connections in a Digital World. New Delhi: Tata McGraw-Hill.
3. Banerji, Meera and Krishna Mohan. Developing Communication Skills. Macmillan Publishers
India.
Other 4. Rizvi, Ashraf. M. Effective Technical Communication. New Delhi: Tata McGraw-Hill.
9.2 references 5. Lewis, Norman.Word Power Made Easy.

Mapping of Outcomes vs. Topics

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ENG 202---.A X
ENG 202---.A1 X X
ENG 202---.A2 X X
ENG 202---.A3 X X
ENG 202---.B X
ENG 202---.B1 X
ENG 202---.B2 X
ENG 202---.B3 X
ENG 202---.C X
ENG 202---.C1 X
ENG 202---.C2 X X
ENG 202---.C3 X X
ENG 202---.D X
ENG 202---.D1 X
ENG 202---.D2 X
ENG 202---.D3 X
ENG 202---.E X
ENG 202---.E1 X
ENG 202---.E2 X
ENG 202---.E3 X