NITH SYLLABUS

HS-101COMMUNICATION SKILLS
CreditsLTP
3210

UNIT-1

INTRODUCTION
  • Role of Effective Communication Skills for an Engineer
  • Theories of acquiring and learning English as a Second language
  • Challenges in learning language and means to overcome these

UNIT-2

COMMUNICATION PROCESS
  • Types and modes of communication
  • Formal and Informal Communication
  • Process
  • Channels and levels of communication in Organizations
  • Intrapersonal and interpersonal communication
  • Common frame of reference and Context for effective communication
  • Verbal and Non verbal communication
  • Interpreting non-verbal communication
  • Barriers to effective communication

UNIT-3

EFFECTIVE LISTENING SKILLS
  • What does listening mean? Types of listening
  • Strategies for effective listening
  • Listening for specific purposes
  • Listening process and barriers to listening
  • Leadership and role of effective listening
  • Problems in comprehension and retention
  • Note taking
  • Exposure to recorded audio/visual text for listening

UNIT-4

EFFECTIVE SPEAKING SKILLS
  • Interviews and Group discussion: Telephonic and personal interviews
  • Pre-Interview planning SWOT analysis
  • Building self-confidence
  • Developing Emotional intelligence
  • Preparing for current topics
  • Group Discussion as an interviewing tool Public speaking: Become aware of personal speech habits and characteristics
  • Improving non-verbal cues
  • Voice
  • Diction and other mechanics of speech
  • Speech preparation and presentation techniques
  • Audience awareness and self-awareness
  • Cultivating poise and self-confidence
  • Presenting a variety of speeches (informative
  • Persuasive
  • Demonstrative
  • Special occasion
  • Etc.)

UNIT-5

READING SKILLS
  • Need and process
  • Approach to different reading materials
  • Purposes of reading,Different reading strategies: Skimming
  • Scanning Predicting
  • Inferring from the context Reading,Comprehension
  • Vocabulary expansion through reading

UNIT-6

WRITING SKILLS
  • Need and strategy
  • Developing Style of Writing
  • Role of appropriateness
  • Brevity and clarity in writing
  • Cohesion and Coherence
  • Paragraph writing
  • Vocabulary building (roots
  • Prefixes
  • Suffixes) SOP
  • Resume/CV
  • Job applications Report writing: Importance of Technical Report Writing
  • Types of Reports
  • Objectivity in Report Writing
  • Collection of Data for Report writing
BOOKS
  1. Business Communication Today by Bovee, Courtland, L., John V. Thill and Barbara E. Schatzman: Pearson Education: Delhi.
  2. The Definitive Book of Body Language by Allan Pease and Barbara Pease. Manjul Publishing House: New Delhi.
  3. Communication for Business by Shirley Taylor. Longman: New Delhi.
  4. Technical Communication: Principles and Practice by Meenakshi Raman and Sangeeta Sharma. Oxford University Press: New Delhi
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