Languages

Academic Communication for Engineering 1

Module code: Q1155
Level 4
15 credits in autumn semester
Teaching method: Seminar
Assessment modes: Coursework

This module will prepare you for academic studies in Communications Engineering and Robotics and Electrical Engineering through training in English language communication skills.

You will practice and develop subject-specific language and rhetorical skills in report writing, which can be transferred to other modules on your degree. You will practice writing specific parts of engineering lab reports (introductions, methodology, results and conclusions), utilising language structures such as nominalisation, passive voice, imperatives and other functional forms.

Framed around familiar topics from your degrees (such as step potential, circuit testing and engineering materials), you will also be explore 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.