EWC661: ENGLISH FOR REPORT WRITING

About This Course

This course teaches students how to create a successful investigative report using a variety of fundamental written communication skills and standard report writing conventions. By doing this, it also gives pupils the chance to develop their abilities to find and elicit knowledge about the problem at hand. Additionally, it gives students a platform to persuade and enlighten while making a proposal. In addition, it strengthens teamwork abilities by fostering positive relationships among the team members throughout the report writing process. Students will work together to create a report that is excellent in quality, clarity, and impact at the end of the semester.

Topics In This Course

1. Introduction to Report Writing

1.1) Types of reports

1.2) Qualities of a good report

1.3) Components of a formal report

2. Language used in report writing

2.1) Formal and informal language

2.2) Active and passive construction

2.3) Personal and impersonal language

2.4) Clear and concise verbs

2.5) Tenses

2.6) Identifying errors, editing and proofreading skills

3. Proposal Writing and Presentation

3.1) Basic elements of a proposal

3.2) Writing the context of the proposed study supported by evidence

3.3) Using the Internet as the main resource to retrieve relevant information

3.4) Retrieving appropriate and relevant materials as supporting evidence

3.5) Eliciting information from the selected materials

3.6) Synthesizing the selected information

3.7) Writing coherent and cohesive paragraphs

3.8) Writing effective questionnaire items

3.9) Present the content of the proposal in bulleted lists in a persuasive manner

4. Writing a Well-Structured Report

4.1) Writing coherent paragraphs using different language style for different components of a report

4.2) Using common writing conventions for report writing

4.3) Organising information according to the components of a report