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Course Catalog 2013-2014

KIE-33006 Written Communication in English, 3 cr

Person responsible

Sari Isokääntä

Lessons

Study type	P1	P2	P3	P4	Summer	Implementations	Lecture times and places
Lectures	2 h/week	+2 h/week				KIE-33006 2013-01
Lectures	2 h/week	+2 h/week				KIE-33006 2013-02
Lectures	2 h/week	+2 h/week				KIE-33006 2013-03
Lectures	2 h/week	+2 h/week				KIE-33006 2013-04
Lectures			2 h/week	+2 h/week		KIE-33006 2013-05
Lectures			2 h/week	+2 h/week		KIE-33006 2013-06
Lectures			2 h/week	+2 h/week		KIE-33006 2013-07
Lectures			2 h/week	+2 h/week		KIE-33006 2013-08
Lectures			2 h/week	+2 h/week		KIE-33006 2013-09

Requirements

Successful completion of course modules within set deadlines and a final exam.
Completion parts must belong to the same implementation

Principles and baselines related to teaching and learning

The focus is on professional written communication skills that engineers encounter during their studies and work-life. The tasks and materials are predominantly online-based, with some contact with the teacher for support and feedback. Some implementations of the course will be integrated with Bachelor's level study programmes.

Learning outcomes

After completing the course, the student can produce a range of professionally relevant types of text, e.g. emails, summaries and proposals. They can write clear, coherent, and well-organised text. They can consider audience, purpose and genre-specific conventions in their writing, and select an appropriate register for a given type of context. The student can also use a range of resources to develop their written communication skills independently.

Content

Content	Core content	Complementary knowledge	Specialist knowledge
1.	Understanding the principles of writing coherent, well-organised and cohesive text. Considering audience, purpose, and genre-specific conventions, and selecting an appropriate register.
2.	Communicating via email in professional contexts.
3.	Analysing and producing data commentaries.
4.	Writing process descriptions.
5.	Analysing academic texts and producing summaries.
6.	Analysing and producing proposals.
7.	Making use of a range of resources to develop written communication skills independently.

Evaluation criteria for the course

Successful completion of course assignments and a final exam.

Assessment scale:

Numerical evaluation scale (1-5) will be used on the course

Partial passing:

Completion parts must belong to the same implementation

Prerequisite relations (Requires logging in to POP)

Correspondence of content

There is no equivalence with any other courses

More precise information per implementation

Implementation	Description	Methods of instruction	Implementation
KIE-33006 2013-01	Group 1
KIE-33006 2013-02	Group 2
KIE-33006 2013-03	Group 3
KIE-33006 2013-04	Group 4
KIE-33006 2013-05	Group 5
KIE-33006 2013-06	Group 6
KIE-33006 2013-07	Group 7
KIE-33006 2013-08	Group 8
KIE-33006 2013-09	Group 9

Last modified

08.05.2013