This paper is based on the idea that Technical Report Writing course in engineering universities should be taught in order to fulfill the professional needs of potential engineers. The course contents and credit hours are redefined here to avoid repetition of several topics and save time for teaching the contents essential for future engineers. Teachers barely provide ample time to specific topics instead they touch these topics superficially so as to cover the syllabus of the entire course. This practice results in students’ ineffectiveness in various areas, which is obvious from the data collected through the survey conducted during the research. The proposed research also supports exploiting the contents of Communication Skills course to make it more useful for the computer science and engineering students. It is proposed that Technical Report Writing (TRW) course should be a comprehensive resource for teachers to provide a wide selection of multimedia tools designed especially for workplace writer.

 

Published In : IJCSN Journal Volume 4, Issue 1

Date of Publication : February 2015

Pages : 176 - 180

Figures : 04

Tables : 03

Publication Link : Restructuring Strategy for The Technical Report Writing Course in Engineering Universities of Pakistan

 

 

 

Samina Hashmi : got her master degrees in English Literature and Linguistics from Karachi University and Certificate in Professional Studies in Education (CIPSIE) from Bradford College U.K. She has been in teaching profession since 1990 and currently serving Bahria Engineering University Karachi Campus. The current research interest of the author is to develop curriculum of English courses being taught to potential Engineers according to their needs. She had been associated with Society of Pakistan English Language Teachers (SPELT) and serve Beaconhouse School System as an ETec.( Emerging Technology) Ambassador for several years

Tazeen Muzammil : got her MS degrees in Software Engineering and Bachelors in Software Engineering from Bahria University. She has been in teaching profession since 2008 and currently is an Assistant Professor in Computer & Software Engineering Department at Bahria University Karachi. She has Six years academic experience. Her research interest includes Bioinformatics and Software Engineering.

Bushra Fazal Khan : got her MS degrees in Software Engineering and Bachelors in Software Engineering from Bahria University. She has been in teaching profession since 2011 and currently is Lecturer in Computer & Software Engineering Department at Bahria University Karachi. She has four years academic experience. Her research interest includes Bioinformatics, Data Mining, Software Design Patterns and Software Engineering.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Engineering education

Technical Report Writing

oral communication

Communication Skills

No research work and nothing happens until actions are taken commensurately. The proposed courses have been designed specifically to assist engineering and computer science students in creating, compiling and managing technical documents in sufficient time using Standard English. It is said that good technical reports don’t just happen. They are designed. Language is a social, real world inspired phenomenon in humans, so it is what the courses should be based up on but academic researches prove that teaching English as Second Language (ESL) doesn’t help speak in English. If English language teachers want students to speak good English and gain confidence during presentations, then communication courses should include such activities and games which are focusing more on verbal practices.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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