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SC 100: Communication Skills I (1 Credits: 20 Lect. 20 Sem. 0 Pract.)<\/i><\/h3>\n

Pre-requisite: None<\/a><\/p>\n

Course contents:<\/strong>
Meaning of communication skills<\/strong>: objectives and relevance in university studies
Listening skills<\/strong>: factors contributing to active listening, developing active listening, listening to lectures and note taking
Reading skills<\/strong>: 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<\/strong>: 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:<\/strong> 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<\/strong>: literature review techniques, literature evaluation, making citations from literature, presenting a list of references.<\/p>\n

Learning outcomes:<\/strong>
At the end of the course students should be able to:<\/p>\n