JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY HYDERABAD

Prerequisite

None

Course objectives: Students will be able to:

• Understand that how to improve your writing skills and level of readability
• Learn about what to write in each section
• Understand the skills needed when writing a Title Ensure the good quality of paper at very first- time submission

UNIT - I

Planning and Preparation, Word Order, Breaking up long sentences, Structuring Paragraphs and Sentences, Being Concise and Removing Redundancy, Avoiding Ambiguity and Vagueness

UNIT - II

Clarifying Who Did What, Highlighting Your Findings, Hedging and Criticizing, Paraphrasing and Plagiarism, Sections of a Paper, Abstracts. Introduction

UNIT - III

Review of the Literature, Methods, Results, Discussion, Conclusions, The Final Check.

UNIT - IV

key skills are needed when writing a Title, key skills are needed when writing an Abstract, key skills are needed when writing an Introduction, skills needed when writing a Review of the Literature,

UNIT - V

skills are needed when writing the Methods, skills needed when writing the Results, skills are needed when writing the Discussion, skills are needed when writing the Conclusions. useful phrases, how to ensure paper is as good as it could possibly be the first- time submission

TEXT BOOKS/ REFERENCES:

• 1. Goldbort R (2006) Writing for Science, Yale University Press (available on Google Books)
• 2. Day R (2006) How to Write and Publish a Scientific Paper, Cambridge University Press
• 3. Highman N (1998), Handbook of Writing for the Mathematical Sciences, SIAM. Highman’s book.
• 4. Adrian Wallwork, English for Writing Research Papers, Springer New York Dordrecht Heidelberg London, 2011 R19 M.Tech. ENGG. DESIGN M. Tech. (ENGG. DESIGN)