(Podcast) English for Written Communication

Topic 8 is about writing and presenting research proposals. You will learn the various steps involved in coming up with a good research proposal, including planning and writing one.

Episode 9 deals with the steps and process of writing a good research paper. Here, learners learn about formatting and the various techniques required to write a good research paper.

Episode 10 focuses on collaborative writing. The goal in collaborative writing is to get you to work in groups, share written documents, write drafts and make amendments or changes to improve a piece of writing.

Episode 2 introduces various models of communication. Four different models are discussed, namely the models by Claude Shannon, Roman Jakobson, Ulric Neisser and Michael Polanyi.

Episode 3 takes you through paragraph writing and show you how to plan an essay. It introduces the stages involved in essay writing, beginning from pre-writing to the final draft. It also describes the outline for writing different types of essays. Since an essay is made up of paragraphs, this topic also includes a sub-topic on sentence connectors to help you link your ideas together.

Episode 4 delves deeper into the types of essays. It shows you how to go about writing specific essay types. It explains what a topic sentence is and how to support it with evidence. It also introduces fallacies so that you learn to avoid making weak arguments.

Episode 5 is on tackling essays. It talks about a variety of things related to essay writing, from developing paragraphs to essay structures and writing bibliography. It also touches on plagiarism and interpreting visual data.

Episode 6 is about persuasive writing, a form of writing that sets out to influence or change oneÊs perceptions or thoughts about something. It is also known as an argumentation essay which utilises logic and reason to show that a certain idea is more legitimate than another.

Episode 7 deals with report writing. Learners will learn to write good reports for academia as well as be introduced to other kinds of research reports.

Episode 1 deals with the basic principles of written communication. It is designed to help you become more aware of the importance of written communication as well as the challenges and pitfalls.