Basic academic writing in engineering studies: research, documentation, progress

  • Authors:
  • Suzana Carmen Cismas

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Modern Languages and Communication, The Polytechnic University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania

  • Venue:
  • EDUCATION'10 Proceedings of the 7th WSEAS international conference on Engineering education
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

This article displays additional types of academic technical writing implemented in the Faculty of Power Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Bucharest during foreign language course&seminars, together with data documenting students' results and didactic effectiveness over a four-year learning cycle. The present research is closely related to the previous one in the article Foreign Language Technical Writing Abilities for Power Engineering Students in the Polytechnic University of Bucharest, presenting statistic results for both sets of academic writing templates. The set presented below contains scholarship essays, timed compositions, review and expository essays, analytical texts, division, classification and comparative essays, as well as cause and effect drafting. Text components and required transferable skills are explained, alongside with indicators such as content relevance, success rate, and pattern compliance.