Informal Assignment
Last updated on October 15th, 2019
“Communication skills are an essential component in the education of
engineering students to facilitate not just students’ education but also to prepare
them for their future careers.”
Explanation:
In the school context, poor communication skills may lead to students learning the concept incorrectly, resulting in the wrong application of concept or theory. Often, it is required for students to work in teams. Thus effective communication would allow students to pass information and received information from one another as intended, no information being interpreted wrongly or else it could lead to frustrations and arguments. Thus student's communication skills may affect his or her own learning process by being able to fully understand classes' content and able to communicate well with peers.
Furthermore, in their future careers, engineers would often have to deal with people from a wide span of industries such as business specialists, contractors and public officials. Thus it is critical for them to be able to converse with their skillfully in order for both parties to interact smoothly. That is by breaking things into layman terms to minimise doubts and incoherent information.
Consistency in communication plays an important role as while because different people may adopt a different approach on how they portray a vision. It is therefore important to understand one’s style and the ability to translate for others to comprehend, regardless of occupations - students or engineers.
“Communication skills are an essential component in the education of
engineering students to facilitate not just students’ education but also to prepare
them for their future careers.”
- Marc Riemer, Faculty of Engineering, Monash University (2007)
Explanation:
In the school context, poor communication skills may lead to students learning the concept incorrectly, resulting in the wrong application of concept or theory. Often, it is required for students to work in teams. Thus effective communication would allow students to pass information and received information from one another as intended, no information being interpreted wrongly or else it could lead to frustrations and arguments. Thus student's communication skills may affect his or her own learning process by being able to fully understand classes' content and able to communicate well with peers.
Furthermore, in their future careers, engineers would often have to deal with people from a wide span of industries such as business specialists, contractors and public officials. Thus it is critical for them to be able to converse with their skillfully in order for both parties to interact smoothly. That is by breaking things into layman terms to minimise doubts and incoherent information.
Consistency in communication plays an important role as while because different people may adopt a different approach on how they portray a vision. It is therefore important to understand one’s style and the ability to translate for others to comprehend, regardless of occupations - students or engineers.
Thank you, Amanda, for this highly detailed response to the task. We appreciate your effort.
ReplyDeleteHi Prof, I would also like to thank you for the constructive feedback you have given me in week 1.
DeleteI have made adjustment to the mistakes you have highlighted to me such as removing the unnecessary semi-colon and rephrasing of odd sentence structure. If there is still correction to make, do let me know.
A few grammar mistakes but overall, the content is good.
ReplyDeleteThank you Gerald for the feedback!
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