Anna university technical writing course

Is the Anna university offered any technical writing course .. give me details about it ??

The Department of Humanities and Social Sciences of anna university offered admission in the technical writing and communication course ..

Course name :
FT 3007 technical writing and communication l T P c
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Ft 3007 Technical Writing And Communication Syllabus

UNIT I RESEARCH & WRITING 9
The project/term paper, selecting a topic, using a library, compiling a working bibilography,
taking notes, plagiarism, outlining, writing drafts, guides to writing.

UNIT II MECHANICS OF WRITING 9
Spelling, punctuation, numbers, titles and quotations.

UNIT III FORMAT OF A TERM/PROJECT REPORT 9
Typing, paper, margins, spacing, heading and title of paper, page numbers, tables and
illustrations, corrections and insertions, binding.

UNIT IV PREPARATION OF CITATIONS 9
General guidelines, placement, arrangement, citing books, citing articles in periodicals,
documenting sources, what is a document, parenthetical documentation, information
required in parenthetical documentation, readability, sample references.

UNIT V ABBREVIATIONS AND REFERENCES 9
Introduction, time, common scholarly abbreviations and references words, publishers
names, symbols and abbreviations used in proof-reading and correction, literary and
scientific indexing.

TOTAL : 45 PERIODS

TEXT BOOK
1. Gibaldi W.S. "Achtert Handbook for Writers of Research Papers ", Wiley Eastern, 1987.
REFERENCE
1. "Chicago Manual of Style 14th Edition", Chicaco, University of Chicaco Press, 1996.

Contact details :
Anna University, Kotturpuram
Chennai, Tamil Nadu ‎