Technical

Communication
Overview of Course

P Sunthar
Department of Chemical Engineering, IIT Bombay
Technical Communication
Messages related to Science, Engineering, or Technology
Written: Articles, Reports, Wikipedia, Blogs
Graphics: Labels, User Guides, Posters
Oral: Chat, Classroom, Seminar, Interview
Video: Lectures, Tutorials, Procedures
Purpose: For others to know and reproduce
Know: make use elsewhere
Reproduce: for a benefit
TC: Culture/Language independent Universal Principles

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Overview of Contents
Ethics Listening

Self Consumers
Aware-
Scientific
ness
Method
Presenta-
tion Reading
Inter-
Creators
views
Group
Discus- Writing
sion
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Assessment in this Course
Quick self-assessments
Recalling terms and facts
Understanding (relations between facts)
Home assignments and Peer assessments
Longer subjective activity
Participants evaluate other participants
Helps identifying common mistakes and pitfalls
Tutorials
Instructor guided activity

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