308012 (v.1) Communication Skills 016
| Area: | Faculty of Science |
| Credits: | 12.5 |
| Contact Hours: | 2.0 |
| ** The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline. ** | |
| Seminar: | 1 x 2 Hours Weekly |
| Syllabus: | Introduction to primary research - searching and identifying research material, use of the library, electronic databases and the internet, SPI booklet. Harvard referencing. Paraphrasing and summarising. Plagiarism. Synthesising information from more thanone text. Formal language use in academic writing. Presentation requirements for university assignments - language, audience and purpose, thesis statements and introduction to report and essay writing. Continuing primary and secondary research, introduction to report writing - decimal notation, recommendations, writing introductions, conclusions and executive summaries, integrating visuals into reports. Introduction to essay writing - logical argument development, sentence and paragraph structure, clear,correct writing. Integrating primary and secondary research into written assignments. Oral communication skills - language, purpose, audience and context, non-verbal language and collaborative and teamwork skills. |
| ** To ensure that the most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes appears, they will be provided in your unit outline prior to commencement. ** | |
| Field of Education: | 100705 Written Communication |
| Funding Cluster: | 07 - Foreign Languages, Visual and Performing Arts |
| SOLT (Online) Definitions*: | Informational *Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information |
| Result Type: | Grade/Mark |
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Curtin University of Technology
Current as of: July 11, 2005
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