Communication Skills Contents
Communication Skills Contents
Part 1 Assignment Tasks / Types of Text
1.1 Short Answers
1.2 Essays
1.3 Oral presentations (or see module from LTDU MyUni web-site on this
topic)
1.4 Interviews
1.5 Professional reports
1.6 Executive summaries
1.7 Case analysis reports
1.8 Precis
1.9 Professional synopsis
1.10 Formal letters
1.11 Formal emails
1.12 Memos
Part 2 Component Skills
2.1 Skills and resources
available
2.2 Cultural
differences in learning styles
2.3 Academic expectations
2.4 Independent learning
2.5 Aiming high for assignments
2.6 Academic argument
2.7 Analytical and
critical thinking
2.8 Good style
2.9 Style for
the School of Commerce
2.10 Instructional words
2.11 Plagiarism
and using your own words
2.12 Referencing:
the Harvard system
2.13 Referencing:
the footnoting system
2.14 Referencing:
notes to students
2.15 Group skills
2.16 Project management
2.17 Vocabulary and grammar (not in the printed version of Guide)
This consists of 6 sub-sections:
2.17.1 Vocabulary (23 pages: alphabetic
list of tricky words)
2.17.2 Problem Verbs (3 pages: lay,
lie, raise, rise, sat, set, hang)
2.17.3 Prepositions (3 pages: in,
on, above, for, about, with, etc.)
2.17.4 Plurals (5 pages: usually add 's',
but lots of exceptions)
2.17.5 Double Negatives (1 page: e.g.
"They didn't learn nothing")
2.17.6 The Apostrophe (3 pages: When should
it be used?)
All vocabulary and grammar files (34 pages: all 6 sub-sections
together)
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