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Walsh, Kath; Rebaczonok-Padulo, Michael – Guidelines, 1993
Ngee Ann Polytechnic, a leading postsecondary technical institution in Singapore, offers English for academic and occupational purposes to prepare students for writing their final year projects. This article discusses the approaches used in Mechanical Engineering and Biotechnology projects. A sample exercise is appended. (Contains two references.)…
Descriptors: Case Studies, English (Second Language), English for Science and Technology, Foreign Countries
Krishnan, Lakshmy; Murphy, Noela – Guidelines, 1993
In a Singapore study of the evaluation of engineering students' writing, engineering lecturers and language lecturers marked scripts differently. Analysis showed that engineering lecturers placed more emphasis on students' understanding of a process rather than their expression of that understanding. (Contains 13 references.) (LB)
Descriptors: Engineering Education, English for Science and Technology, Foreign Countries, Interrater Reliability
Chandrasegaran, Antonia – Guidelines, 1993
In business correspondence and technical communications, lack of coherence can cause serious misunderstanding. This paper examines how the problem of generating coherence is addressed in English for Business and Technology textbooks. It proposes a cognitive approach to skill building and presents a teaching procedure for doing so. (Contains two…
Descriptors: Business Communication, Classroom Techniques, Coherence, English for Science and Technology
