SAGE University, Indore
Institute Name: IET Department Name: Applied Science
Recommended Programs:
Semester: I
Common for All
Communication Skills &
Course Name Course Code AECACCOS001T
Personality Development
L T P N Total
Credit Hour 3
3 - - - Credit
Prerequisites Basic Knowledge of English.
The course Objectives are as follows:
1. To educate the students about communication and to make them familiar
with business and general communication and feedback.
2. To enable the students to channelize the way they communicate by
Course enhancing their knowledge about verbal and Nonverbal communication.
Objectives 3. To train the students to develop skills on how to overcome the barriers of
communication through transactional analysis process.
4. To describe the importance of SWOT analysis.
5. To give depth information about personalities.
6. To motivate students to set proper goals to become successful
UNIT- I: Identifying Common errors in writing Vocabulary building
[9 hours]
Articles, Subject-Verb Agreement, Prepositions, Active and Passive Voice,
Reported Speech: Direct and Indirect, Sentence Structure, Acquaintance with
prefixes and suffixes from foreign languages in English to form derivatives,
synonyms, and antonyms.
UNIT – II: Communication [9 hours]
Introduction Communication to Communication: Introduction, Meaning and
Significance, Process and Channels of Communication, Oral and Written
Communication, 7 c’s of Communication, Barriers to Communication and Ways
to overcome them, Importance of Principles for Effective Communication.
Importance of Feed-back.
Course
Content UNIT – III: Reading Comprehension [9 hours]
Meaning and definition of Reading Comprehension, SQ3R method for reading,
types of reading (up -ward, down word and horizontal etc) Reading
Comprehension: Intensive reading skills, rapid reading and Effective reading.
UNIT –IV:Developing Writing Skills [9 hours]
Planning, Drafting and Editing, Precise Writing, Précis, Report Writing:
Features of writing a good Report, Structure of a Formal Report, Report of
Trouble, Laboratory Report, and Progress Report.
UNIT-V:Business Correspondence [9 hours]
Importance of Business Letters, Parts and Layout; Application, meaning of
Quotation, Calling/ Sending Quotation, Order, Complaint, E-mail and
Tender.
1. ‘Technical Communication: Principles and practice’,Meenakshi Raman and
Text Books
Sangeeta Sharma(Oxford)
SAGE University, Indore
2. ‘Effective Business Communication’,Krizan and merrier (Cengagelearning)
3. ‘Communication Skill, Sanjay Kumar and pushlata,OUP2011
4. “Practical English Usage Michael Swan OUP,1995.
5. “Exercises in spoken English Parts I-III CIEFL, Hyderabad,
OxfordUniversityPress
6. On writing well, William Zinsser, Harper Resource Book2001.
Remedial English Grammar, F.T.Wood,Macmillan2007
1. Kaul: Effective Business Communication: Prentice Hall, New Delhi.
References 2. Sharma, R.C. and Mohan, Krishna. Business Correspondence and Report
Writing. A Practical Approach to Business and Technical Communication.
After completion of this course, students are able to:
CO1: Understand different types of communication and the feedback methods.
Course CO2: Demonstrate Verbal and Nonverbal Communication.
Outcomes CO3:Analyze to overcome barriers of communication.
CO4: Understand about SWOT analysis, Motivation and concept of attitude.
CO5:Understand about planning and development
