Professional English II

HS3251

PROFESSIONAL ENGLISH - II

OBJECTIVES:

• To engage learners in meaningful language activities to improve their reading and writing skills

• To learn various reading strategies and apply in comprehending documents in professional context.

• To help learners understand the purpose, audience, contexts of different types of writing

• To develop analytical thinking skills for problem solving in communicative contexts

• To demonstrate an understanding of job applications and interviews for internship and placements

UNIT I

MAKING COMPARISONS

Reading - Reading advertisements, user manuals, brochures; Writing - Professional emails, Email etiquette - Compare and Contrast Essay; Grammar - Mixed Tenses, Prepositional phrases

UNIT II

EXPRESSING CAUSAL RELATIONS IN SPEAKING AND WRITING

Reading - Reading longer technical texts- Cause and Effect Essays, and Letters / emails of complaint, Writing - Writing responses to complaints. Grammar - Active Passive Voice transformations, Infinitive and Gerunds

UNIT III

PROBLEM SOLVING

Reading - Case Studies, excerpts from literary texts, news reports etc. Writing - Letter to the Editor, Checklists, Problem solution essay / Argumentative Essay. Grammar - Error correction; If conditional sentences

UNIT IV

REPORTING OF EVENTS AND RESEARCH

Reading -Newspaper articles; Writing - Recommendations, Transcoding, Accident Report, Survey Report Grammar - Reported Speech, Modals Vocabulary - Conjunctions- use of prepositions

UNIT V

THE ABILITY TO PUT IDEAS OR INFORMATION COGENTLY

Reading Company profiles, Statement of Purpose, (SOP), an excerpt of interview with professionals; Writing - Job / Internship application - Cover letter & Resume; Grammar - Numerical adjectives, Relative Clauses.

TOTAL: 30 PERIODS

OUTCOMES:

At the end of the course, learners will be able

• To compare and contrast products and ideas in technical texts.

• To identify cause and effects in events, industrial processes through technical texts

• To analyse problems in order to arrive at feasible solutions and communicate them orally and in the written format.

• To report events and the processes of technical and industrial nature.

• To present their opinions in a planned and logical manner, and draft effective resumes in context of job search.

TEXT BOOKS:

1. English for Engineers & Technologists (2020 edition) Orient Blackswan Private Ltd. Department of English, Anna University.

2. English for Science & Technology Cambridge University Press 2021.

3. Authored by Dr. Veena Selvam, Dr. Sujatha Priyadarshini, Dr. Deepa Mary Francis, Dr. KN. Shoba, and Dr. Lourdes Joevani, Department of English, Anna University.

REFERENCES:

1. Raman. Meenakshi, Sharma. Sangeeta (2019). Professional English. Oxford university press. New Delhi.

2. Improve Your Writing ed. V.N. Arora and Laxmi Chandra, Oxford Univ. Press, 2001, NewDelhi.

3. Learning to Communicate - Dr. V. Chellammal. Allied Publishers, New Delhi, 2003

4. Business Correspondence and Report Writing by Prof. R.C. Sharma & Krishna Mohan, Tata McGraw Hill & Co. Ltd., 2001, New Delhi.

5. Developing Communication Skills by Krishna Mohan, Meera Bannerji- Macmillan India Ltd. 1990, Delhi.

ASSESSMENT PATTERN

Two internal assessments and an end semester examination to test students' reading and writing skills along with their grammatical and lexical competence.