COURSE SPECIFICATION

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN CRIMINOLOGY

CDI 05:Technical English 1 (Technical Writing and Reporting)

1 Course Title Technical English 1 (Technical Writing and Reporting)

2 Course Number CDI 05
3 Semester and Year Second Semester, Academic Year 2020-2021
Offered
4 Credit Units 3
5 Contact Hours 54 Hrs.
6 Pre-requisite/s (if CDI 04
any)
7 Co-requisite/s (if N/A
any)
8 Course Description The course covers the study of the concept of application
of the appropriate report writing, office memorandum and
correspondence. The brevity, clarity, completeness and accuracy of
facts and presentation according to the prescribed format and style
of investigative report writing structure, correspondence, and
memorandum. It includes the fundamentals and styles of different
report writings and contents of police report writing, manner of
handling standards police forms and technique, and sequences of
blotter entries.
9 Course Learning At the end of the course, the students should be able to identify,
Outcomes learn and master the particular topics, viz:

1. English Language Rules – on subject-verb-agreement, tenses,

nouns and pronouns, grammar and composition;
2. Office Memorandum: Kinds or types of memo, features,
format, purpose, and parts, vertical memo from top to bottom
(directive), vertical memo bottom to top (report);
3. correspondence etiquette in electronic mail, sms,
formal/official or business, correspondence/communication;
4. Write memorandums, business letters, official letters, personal
letters etc. and exchanges of correspondence between law
enforcement agencies; and
5. Report writing based on the format adopted by the agency
concerned such as incident report, blotter, initial report,
progress report, follow-up report, after incident report, post
operation report, status report, investigation report, final
report. Vertical and lateral report, periodic or evaluation
report.
10 Learners' Profile The students enrolled in this course are third year students coming
and Context from various places in Region I. Some of the students are presently
residing in the City of San Fernando, La Union but some are in their
respective provinces and are prevented or restricted to attend classes
in person due to various quarantine measures imposed by the
student’s respective local government units. Albeit such measures
imposed, the students may access their learning needs in this
institution via online platforms, viz – Google classroom and Google
meet.
11 Assessment and The course will have formative as well as summative assessment
Evaluation Details activities that will be administered via Google classroom which the
students need to answer within a limited and reasonable time.
12 Monitoring Details Students will be monitored through:
 a. Phone calls, short message service (SMS), chat through group
chats (GCs) as often as possible;
b. Video recordings or documents of their progress or
development in their tasks/activities; and
c. Their participation in the Google classroom discussion wall and
other online activities.
13 Technological The delivery of the course will require the use of Institutional
Support Learning Management System (LMS), SLC E-Learning Resources, and
SLC Student Portal.