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Technical English for Engineers

Technical English for Engineers. Instructor: Dr. Aysha Iqbal Viswamohan, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Madras. The course covers all the areas of grammar necessary for the undergraduate students of engineering sciences. This includes topics such as reading/writing/listening comprehension, note taking, summarizing, report writing, along with elements of grammar and vocabulary. The course is designed for self-study, where participants will be required to solve regular quizzes and assignments, and can also be used as an add-on to classroom teaching. (from nptel.ac.in)

Lecture 05 - Reading (Identifying Main Ideas) and Listening


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Lecture 01 - Introduction
Lecture 02 - Parts of Speech - Nouns
Lecture 03 - Parts of Speech - Preposition and Noun Phrases
Lecture 04 - Countable and Uncountable Nouns
Lecture 05 - Reading (Identifying Main Ideas) and Listening
Lecture 06 - What is a Sentence?
Lecture 07 - What is a Sentence? (cont.)
Lecture 08 - Subject-Verb Agreement
Lecture 09 - Articles
Lecture 10 - Verbs
Lecture 11 - Comparatives
Lecture 12 - Modals and Voices (Active and Passive)
Lecture 13 - Passive Voice (cont.)
Lecture 14 - Tenses: Uses of the Simple Past
Lecture 15 - Tenses: Simple Present and Present Perfect
Lecture 16 - Effective Speaking
Lecture 17 - Formal Presentation and Dictionary Skills
Lecture 18 - Punctuation: Full Stop, Comma, Hyphen, Dash, Colon
Lecture 19 - Punctuation: Brackets, Ellipsis, Capital Letters, Paragraphs, Abbreviations
Lecture 20 - Reading - SQW3R Method and Note-taking
Lecture 21 - Phrasal Verbs
Lecture 22 - Collocation
Lecture 23 - Word Formation using Prefixes and Suffixes
Lecture 24 - Understanding the Text Organization
Lecture 25 - Writing Emails
Lecture 26 - Academic Writing and Linking Words
Lecture 27 - Paragraph Writing
Lecture 28 - Process of Describing and Explaining Technical/Scientific Processes
Lecture 29 - Essay Writing
Lecture 30 - Essay Writing and Formal Letters
Lecture 31 - Letter Writing and Usage
Lecture 32 - Understanding the Mechanics of Publishable Essays
Lecture 33 - Writing Publishable Essays and Usage
Lecture 34 - Writing Academic and Scientific Reports
Lecture 35 - An Overview of Common Errors and Everyday Usage
Lecture 36 - Writing a Statement of Purpose
Lecture 37 - CV (Curriculum Vitae)/Resume and Cover Letters
Lecture 38 - Conclusion