Overview of Course Outlines• What is Technical Communication • The History of Technical Communication • Factors to consider in Technical communication • How to present in front of others
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SKILLS
Rana Nadeem Anjum 0300-5130507 0322-5130507
rananadeem@uettaxila.edu.pk
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TO BEGIN
I F YOU ARE I N POS S ES S I ON OF A CELL PHONE, KI NDLY TURN I T OFF
NOW !
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• Rana Nadeem Anjum
– MS (Computer Science)
– MBA (Banking & Finance)
– SPM (Software Project Management)
• Assistant Registrar
Planning & Development Directorate
UET, Taxila.
rananadeem@uettaxila.edu.pk
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• Five Class Quizzes
• Two Presentations for each student
• One Group Presentation/One Case Study
• 5-7 Assignments
• One Research Paper
• ( Term Project)
Trang 5Assignment Submission Rules
• Submit your assignment via email and
subject of the assignment should be in
following format:
• “CE-CSk-Assign#-Full Name-Reg #.”
• Name of the attached file should be as fallows:
• “ Title of the Assignment-Full Name-Reg # ”
There will be deduction in the late submission of Assignment (i.e if the Assignment is not submitted with in due date, 50% marks would be deducted if it is submitted with in 24 hours after due date and 100% marks will be deducted if it
is submitted after 24 Hours of due date.)
There would be negative marking for the cheating of
assignment.
Trang 6Recommended Book
“Effective Business Communication”
By Harts A MurphyJane Thomas
Trang 7Overview of Course Outlines
• What is Technical Communication
• The History of Technical Communication
• Factors to consider in Technical communication
• How to present in front of others…?
– What is a presentation?
– Presentation Techniques
– Types of Presentation
– Rehearsals
• Effective Communication in professional context
• Different Types of Audience
• Language and Style of writing
• Voices and their types
• The Appearance and Design of business Messages
• Essential and Optional parts of a latter
• How to write good sentences?
• word watch
• Tone and types of tunes in speaking and writing
• The Job Application Process (interviews and Follow ups)
• Successful Preparation for the Job Interview
• Most Common Questions for the Interview ?
• Language and Style of writing.
• What is plagiarism ?
• Essential parts of Résumé ?
• Types of Résumé and Effective Résumé for getting right jobs
• Things to Know Before Writing Your First Résumé ?
• Seven C’s of Effective Communication
• Use of Seven C’s in Effective Communications
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In simple words we can say that
““just to convey the message”
If we go in more detail we can say that
“ communication is the process of
transmitting (A B) & Receiving
(B A) Messages
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Communication:-• If some one achieve the desired
level of objective through
communication , we can say that it is
“effective communication”
e.g If your communication get the
proper response from the receiver
conveyed the message
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Consider audience’s information needs
Consider Audience's Technical Background
Consider Audience's Cultural Background and Gender
Consider Audience's Knowledge of the
Subject
How to achieve effective
Communication
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Trang 20Consider the possibility of
Communication Failure
Expect audience resistance
Recognize communication constraints
Legal, social economic,
psychological, institutional
Trang 21Using gender-neutral terms for occupations, positions, roles,
Terms that specify a particular gender can unnecessarily
effect certain stereotypes when used generically
Avoid This Use Use This Instead
businessman businessperson, executive, manager, business owner, chair,
chairperson
fireman firefighter
layman layperson, no specialist, nonprofessional
postman mail or letter carrier
policeman police officer or law enforcement officer
salesman, saleswoman, salesperson, sales representative, sales associate,
salesgirl
spokesman spokesperson,
Trang 23• Context tells us reason for
communication and reasons may be
1 Internal
2 External
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company wants to
Discuss an idea/Issue to its employees – the
message should be either
in writing or verbal
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query from stakeholders or
from outside the
organization-• You may response to query
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• When you sending the message, you
are the “Encoder”
message should be in written or oral
objective in the real sense
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to communicate.
• The message may be
– Verbal, means (Written or Spoken)
– Non-Verbal, means( Symbols, Pictures or unspoken).
• This is very much important component of
communication “ Your message should be or MUST
be clear and easy to understand”
• The most important element in message is your
receiver You must be well aware about your
receiver
• While preparing a message you should keep in mind
how your receiver will i nterpret the message
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• You (Sender) should also keep in
receiver while preparing message
create a loss to your organization ,
to yourself
• or it can create a bad impression for you/your company
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message reaches to receiver & channel vary from situation to situation.
• E.g Let’s say Govt of Pakistan wants to convey its message to Pakistani Nation , now Govt will select the effective medium it may be.
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• To whom the message is being sent
(Decoder)
In simple words we can say that
receiver is your reader (in case of
press , letters etc.) or Listener (In case of TV, radio, Speaker Etc.)
• Receiver is also known as decoder
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response/reaction of Receiver after
receiving the message.
• Sender always need feedback to check weather the message effectively reached
or not…? Or in other words….
success or failure of the message.
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Person
Guess the Occupation of these two
persons
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5) symbols of research: scientific equipment, laboratory instruments
6) pens in the pocket
7) male.
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