Technical Writing and Presentation skills (Theory)

Course Code: HSS-320

Credit Hours: 3
Pre requisite: None
Objectives: This course is aimed at enhancing the writing skills of the
students and to undertake undergraduate level project and
an appreciation of relevant ethical and professional issues.
Course Learning Outcomes CLO 1: (C3): The students will be able to write a technically
(CLOs): correct conference paper

CLO 2: (C4): The students would be able to their write final

year project report meeting all criteria

CLO 3: (C3): The students would be able to present their

research at a technical forum.

Course Outline: Introduction to Technical writing

Proposal write-up and improvement strategies
Introduction to research and research types
Choosing research problems and research advisors
How to carry out research
Formulation – Problem statement, Literature
Review
Design - Methodology
Analysis - Data analysis and interpretation
Good writing style techniques
Uses of correct words
Presenting and publishing research

Resources: Writing for Computer science by Justin Zobel

Research Methodologies – A step by step guide for
beginners, Ranjit Kumar.
Tools Ref Manager,Latex,EndPoint,Bibtex,MS Word,MS
Power Point.
Mapping of CLO to PLOs

Contribution : Average -1 , Moderate – 2, Strong-3

PLO CLO 1 CLO 2 CLO 3

PLO 1 Engineering Knowledge
PLO 2 Problem analysis
PLO 3 Design
PLO 4 Investigation 3
PLO 5 Tool usage
PLO 6 engineer and society
PLO 7 Environment
PLO 8 Ethics
PLO 9 Individual and team work
PLO 10 Communications 3 3
PLO 11 Project Management
PLO 12 Lifelong learning

Grading Rubric

Method CLO 1 CLO 2 CLO 3

Final Exam 25 25 x
Mid term Exam 17 3 x
Assignments 10 x 10
Quizzes 5 5 x
Total (100) 57 33 10

Evaluation Criteria for achievement of CLOs

Class average in CLO 1 should be 75% or above

Class average in CLO 2 should be 65% and above
Class average in CLO 3 should be 80% and above