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Title of the course

MM 792: Communication Skills -II

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Credit structure

L          T          P          C

4           0          2           N

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Pre-requisite, if any

None

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Course content

1.Basic English Comprehension 2.Technical Report Writing 3.Summarizing and paraphrasing with emphasis on avoiding plagiarism 4.Making presentations ?? short and long, and evaluating them to identify what makes a good presentation 5.Discussion and Debates 6.Listening and comprehension of audio and video recording

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Texts/References

1.Strunk Jr., William; E. B. White, The Elements of Style, Fourth Edition, Longman; 4th edition (1999).2.Truss, Lynne Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation, Gotham; 302240(2006).3.Whitesides, George M. 302223Whitesides Group: Writing a Paper302224, Advanced Materials 16 137530222677 (2004).4.Lewis, Norman, Word Power Made Easy, Second Edition, Goyal Publishers (1991).

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Instructor(s) name

Prof. Dusane Rajiv O.,Titas Dasgupta