Handshake - a course in communication︱BHM Second Semester

The objectives of the course are to enable students to: increase confidence and fluency in speaking, improve accuracy to enable clear communication of ideas, develop understanding of grammar, interact in a multi-cultural environment, work on writing, reading and listening skills, focus on student's personal needs and objectives and develop specific skills in communicative English.

Prescribed Books:

1. Viney, Peter, and Karen Viney, Handshake: A course in communication Student's Book. Oxford: OUP, 1996.

2. Coe, Norman, Robin Rycroft, and Pauline  Ernest. Writing Skills: A Problem-Solving Approach. Cambridge: CUP, 1983.

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Scientific Communication︱B.Sc. First Year

Course Title: Scientific Communication (SC 101)

Nature of Course: Theory

A course on Scientific Communication has been designed for the first year students of 4-year B.Sc. programme of the Institute of Science and Technology (IOST), Tribhuvan University. Students are supposed to improve their skill of communication in English language especially the writing. 

Prescribed Texts:

1. Learning English - A. Rama Krishna Rao, Orient Black Swan, Hyderabad, 2009.

2. Improve Your Writing - V. N. Arora and LAkshmi Chandra, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2011.

Reference Text:

1. Technical Communication - Meenakshi Raman and Sangeeta Sharma, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2012

Course Contents:

Learning English (25 hours)

1. Astronomy

        - Our Picture of the Universe  by Stephen Hawkings

2. Information Technology

        - A Very Short History of Computer Ethics by Terrell Ward Bynum

3. Health and Medicine

        - Save Your Liver by Richard Selzer

4. Environment

        - Water: The Elixir of Life by C.V. Raman

Improve Your Writing (25 hours)

1. The Sentence

        - The Effect of the Scientific Temperament on Man by Bertrand Russell

2. The Paragraph

        - Gods in the Godless Universe by Bertrand Russell

        - Pollution and Super-pollution by G. R. Taylor

        - Science and Survival by Barry Commoner

3. The Composition

        - Man, and Nature by J. Bronowski

        - Man, and His Environment by Robert Arvill 

        - The Cost of the Solar Heat by H. A. Bethe

Technical Communication (25 hours)

1.    Scientific Articles for Science Magazines and Daily Newspapers

2.    Developing a Scientific Proposal

3.    Writing (essential components of) Research Papers for Journals

4.    Report Writing

5.    Oral (e.g. Power point) Presentation in a Group

6.    Citation or References

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