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Technical Communication Skills (G5057)

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Key facts

Details for course being taught in current academic year
Level 1  -  6 credits  -  summer term

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Course description

Course outline

This course aims to provide all students with the skills involved in presenting technical information.

Note that the fact that these are skills means they have to be learned through practice. This entails that all students will need to produce a successful presentation.

Learning outcomes

By the end of the course, a successful student should be able to:

1 Structure technical information to meet the needs of differing target audiences.
2 Give a short, comprehensible presentation on a technical subject.



Assessments

Type Timing Weighting
Coursework100.00%
PresentationSummer Week 6100.00%

Resit mode of assessment

Type Timing Weighting
PresentationSummer Vacation   (1 hour 30 minutes)100.00%

Timing

Submission deadlines may vary for different types of assignment/groups of students.

Weighting

Coursework components (if listed) total 100% of the overall coursework weighting value.



Teaching methods

Term Method Duration Week pattern
Summer Term PRACTICAL 4 hours 0011100000
Summer Term LECTURE 1 hour 1111111111
Summer Term SEMINAR 1 hour 1100000000

How to read the week pattern

The numbers indicate the weeks of the term and how many events take place each week.



Contact details

Dr Blay Whitby

Assess convenor
http://www.sussex.ac.uk/informatics/profile9122.html



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