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 Criticising, 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

UNIT - VI

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 M. TECH. (AMS)