{"id":101,"date":"2015-09-22T16:19:30","date_gmt":"2015-09-22T16:19:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/developmentstudies\/communication-skills-ii\/"},"modified":"2015-09-22T16:19:30","modified_gmt":"2015-09-22T16:19:30","slug":"communication-skills-ii","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.cssh.sua.ac.tz\/developmentstudies\/communication-skills-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"Communication Skills II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Course contents:<\/strong><br \/>Meaning of communication skills; objectives and relevance in university studies<br \/>Listening skills: factors contributing to active listening, developing active listening, listening to lectures and note taking. Reading skills: Characteristics of academic texts i.e. topic sentence and support paragraphs; the SQ3R reading strategy that is the Survey, the Question, and the Read, the Recall, and the Review; and Critical reading. Speaking skills: making oral presentations (i.e. speaking versus reading), uses of signals to perform various communicative acts in presenting, handling presentation materials including audio-visual aids. Writing skills: characteristics of effective academic writing, interpreting essay topics, planning essays and other texts; writing: organizing information, thought and developing of ideas: sentence\/paragraph structure reduction paragraphing and sectioning, text types and development, essay writing; report writing: experiments, project, research, term papers; summary writing-abstracts, summary and executive summary. Academic literacy skills: literature review techniques, literature evaluation, making citations from literature, presenting a list of references.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Learning outcomes<\/strong> <br \/>Students should be able to:\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Demonstrate ability in studying, communicating and gathering information for study purposes<\/li>\n<li>Demonstrate ability in academic literacy skills in coping with advanced academic communication.<\/li>\n<li>Demonstrate ability in applying the study skills in their specialized subject areas at the university\n<p><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Course contents:Meaning of communication skills; objectives and relevance in university studiesListening skills: factors contributing to active listening, developing active listening, listening to lectures and note taking. 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