1. Module 1… In Touch and Informed
Communication Skills
Module 1… In Touch and Informed

2. Introduction Why communication skills are necessary in technology?
Technologists need to read books, articles, reports, proposals and many other types of documents about technology
Technologists also need to write about technology; they need to communicate their ideas to others clearly and unambiguously
The vocabulary, concepts, use of diagrams and so on are different in technology

3. An introduction to reading skills in technology
Approaches to reading
When you read, your purpose will be:
to amuse yourself
to inform yourself
to learn
IF your purpose is to learn
How should you approach your reading

4. When reading the Novel Forming a mental picture
We engage with the text, forming mental pictures as we read, and modifying these pictures where necessary.
have preconceptions about the mental pictures we draw
Connect the pieces of the pictures together to form a bigger picture

5. Reading to learn forming mental ‘pictures’ – concepts
Readers of any document often have preconceptions about the subject matter – and may have to modify them in order to learn.
Readers who want to learn tie together the various concepts they are forming, while reading, into a coherent whole.
at the end of their reading pause and reflect on what they have got out of their reading and what they intend to do with it.

6. Basic reading skills Document 11
Faster Reading, Better Reading, by. Stanton
Some people read faster than others
Average reading speed is 600 words per minute
Some read up to 1000 w.p.m.
How?
There is a simple quiz that will help you see what you are doing wrong…

7. Check yourself
If you have answered 1, 4, 7, 10 and 12 then you are probably doing okay
However, if you have answered any other also correct than see what you can do about it…

8. Different material different speed
May be you are reading every thing at the same speed and it leaves you with less time
This article will not help you read NOVELS faster
This will help you read the hard material faster

9. The Physical Process of Reading
Comprehension & Speed
Some people feel that their comprehension improves as their reading speed improves
The Physical Process of Reading
Some people read slow because of faulty eye movement – which they are not aware of
Increase your Fixation
Have larger recognition span

10. Regression
Attention on each word makes it difficult for the brain to make a meaningful sentence out of the words
The result is daydreaming

11. What can you do??? Ask a friend to check your eye movement
Don’t try to register the sound of the word in your head
How to stop it????
By putting a finger on your lips
Be comfortable while reading
Increase your vocabulary

12. Sometimes you do not need to understand an article fully to answer all the question
If your understanding is about 80% it is fine
Try to skim the article

13. Dealing with difficult document
Page 8 of book Skills says that you read
Article 7 from book Documents
I suggest that you do and try to follow the book in the process

14. How should you be writing these
Rank the following according to the formality of the language and style that are likely to be used.
An to a friend thanking her for a Christmas present.
An engineering report prepared for a large company by a firm of consultants.
An message to a more senior colleague explaining why you can’t attend a meeting.
A school science textbook for ten to twelve year olds.