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INSTITUTE OF BUSINESS & MANAGEMENT SCIENCES

KHYBER PAKHTUNKHWA
AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY PESHAWAR

Programme: BS (CS)-IV
Course Name: Technical & Business Writing
Course Code: EG- 311
Course Hours: 03
Total Weeks: 16
Total Hours: 48

Course Objectives

Technical and Business writing is one of core course offered at the Bachelor
and Master levels by the IBMS/CS, NWFP, Agricultural University Peshawar. Its
basic objectives include inculcating writing especially technical and business skills in
the students, by polishing their writing skills and equipping them with competencies
of preparing effective proposals and reports as future business executives in various
commercial and no commercial organizations in Pakistan.

Week 1: INTRODUCTION
• Definition of Technical writing
• Examples of Technical writing
• Purpose and scope of Technical writing

Week-2 Features of Technical Writing

• Clarity , Conciseness and Comprehensiveness
• Logical and sequential Order
• Pompous vocabulary
• Other features

Week-3. Technical Writing Process

• Planning, Structure,
• Writing, Reviewing and Publishing
• Practice

Week-4 DOCUMENT DESIGN

• Abstract
• Table of Contents
• practice
Week-5
• Plagiarism
• Citation
• Foot notes

Week-6
• References

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• Glossaries
• Practice
Week-7
• Appendice
• Mechanical and Graphical elements
• Practice

Week-8 TYPES OF REPORT

• Proposals
• Progress report
• Project reports
Week-9
• Leaflets
• Brochures
• Magazines articles
Week-10
• Handbooks
• Manuals
• Examples
Week-11
• Research papers
• Thesis
• Examples
Week-12 INFORMATION GATHERING OR DATA COLLECTION
• Define Data
• Types of Data (Based on data sources)
Primary Data
Secondary Data
Week-13 INFORMATION COLLECTION TECHNIQUES
• Observation
• Survey Method
Personal Survey
Telephonic Survey
Print Survey
Postal Survey
Electronic Survey
• Focus Group Discussions
Week-14 QUESTIONNAIRE DESIGN
• Guidlines for Questionnaire Design
• Types of Questionnaire
Structured, Semi Structured,UnStructured Questionnaire
• Examples

Week-15
• Developing a positive corporate images
• Understanding of the readers
• Practice and exercise.

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Week-16
• Revision and Practice

Recommended Books:

1. Technical and Business Writing by Prof. Fazle Wahid IBMS/CS AUP

2. Technical Report Writing, by Pauley and Riordan, Houghton Mifflin
Company, 8th Edition.
3. Effective Technical Communication by Ashraf Rizvi, Tata McGraw-Hill.
4. English for Modern Business. Ketteley and Thompson
5. Write Better, Speak Better. Readers Digest.
6. EFFECTIVE BUSINESS COMMUNICATION, 7th Edition, by Herta Murphy
7. TECHNICAL WRITING SITUATIONS AND STRATEGIES, bye Michael H.
Markel, 2nd Edition.