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Technical English for Engineers

Technical English for Engineers. Instructor: Dr. Aysha Iqbal Viswamohan, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Madras. The course covers all the areas of grammar necessary for the undergraduate students of engineering sciences. This includes topics such as reading/writing/listening comprehension, note taking, summarizing, report writing, along with elements of grammar and vocabulary. The course is designed for self-study, where participants will be required to solve regular quizzes and assignments, and can also be used as an add-on to classroom teaching. (from nptel.ac.in)

Lecture 05 - Reading (Identifying Main Ideas) and Listening

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Lecture 01 - Introduction

Lecture 02 - Parts of Speech - Nouns

Lecture 03 - Parts of Speech - Preposition and Noun Phrases

Lecture 04 - Countable and Uncountable Nouns

Lecture 05 - Reading (Identifying Main Ideas) and Listening

Lecture 06 - What is a Sentence?

Lecture 07 - What is a Sentence? (cont.)

Lecture 08 - Subject-Verb Agreement

Lecture 09 - Articles

Lecture 10 - Verbs

Lecture 11 - Comparatives

Lecture 12 - Modals and Voices (Active and Passive)

Lecture 13 - Passive Voice (cont.)

Lecture 14 - Tenses: Uses of the Simple Past

Lecture 15 - Tenses: Simple Present and Present Perfect

Lecture 16 - Effective Speaking

Lecture 17 - Formal Presentation and Dictionary Skills

Lecture 18 - Punctuation: Full Stop, Comma, Hyphen, Dash, Colon

Lecture 19 - Punctuation: Brackets, Ellipsis, Capital Letters, Paragraphs, Abbreviations

Lecture 20 - Reading - SQW3R Method and Note-taking

Lecture 21 - Phrasal Verbs

Lecture 22 - Collocation

Lecture 23 - Word Formation using Prefixes and Suffixes

Lecture 24 - Understanding the Text Organization

Lecture 25 - Writing Emails

Lecture 26 - Academic Writing and Linking Words

Lecture 27 - Paragraph Writing

Lecture 28 - Process of Describing and Explaining Technical/Scientific Processes

Lecture 29 - Essay Writing

Lecture 30 - Essay Writing and Formal Letters

Lecture 31 - Letter Writing and Usage

Lecture 32 - Understanding the Mechanics of Publishable Essays

Lecture 33 - Writing Publishable Essays and Usage

Lecture 34 - Writing Academic and Scientific Reports

Lecture 35 - An Overview of Common Errors and Everyday Usage

Lecture 36 - Writing a Statement of Purpose

Lecture 37 - CV (Curriculum Vitae)/Resume and Cover Letters

Lecture 38 - Conclusion