BR1250:03
Technical English 2
Townsville, Cairns
HECS Band 1
Semester 2 by flexible delivery. It will be taught through a combination of external package plus tutorials delivered weekly on campus.
Available to Tertiary Access Course students.
Staff: Ms S Moore.
Students will develop reading, writing and research skills relevant for academic study in science and related fields. Critical literacy skills will include the understanding of technical and scientific genres and terminology, scientific method and how these relate to Indigenous perspectives. Note-taking, paraphrasing and summarising skills will be followed by the writing of essays, proposals, technical descriptions and short research accident and incident reports.
Learning Objectives:
- read and analyse a range of academic texts containing mathematical, graphic and tubular information;
- critically review texts to reveal the underlying lotic and premises upon which their arguments are constructed;
- write technical descriptions related to specific area of the science related study;
- present a seminar paper on science and technical language in Indigenous contexts, which will include the use of visuals and the fielding of questions.
Assessment by essay (20%); seminar presentation (20%); major research project (40%); log book of process exercises (20%).