Part one of communication skills module COM202 aims at helping students to communicate effectively and take their place as confident communicators, critical and imaginative thinkers, and active participants in all forms of communication. Skills embedded in this part will allow students to develop accurate and effective oral, aural and writing skills. This will enable them to take control their language and take responsibility for learning, for both life lifelong learning, and their careers.
Communication is the transmission and reception of a message from one party to another in such a way that it is mutually understandable. Effective communication takes place when the sender and the receiver of the message understand it in the same way.
We need to communicate in our everyday life: between husbands and wives, parents and children, teachers and students, amongst neighbours to name but a few. Most particularly, effective communication is essential to insure good relations among stakeholders in our fast moving business world: employers and employees, sellers and buyers, producers and consumers, service provider and customers.
Part one of communication skills aims at helping students to communicate effectively and take their place as confident communicators, critical and imaginative thinkers, and active participants in all forms of communication. Skills embedded in this part will allow students to develop accurate and effective oral and writing skills. This will enable them to take control their language and take responsibility for learning, for both lifelong learning, and their careers.
Having completed this component of communication skills, students will be able to:
Ø Use principles and rules of effective communication
Ø Write good letters, reports, memos, and other forms of professional writing
Ø Write a variety of correspondence and produce coherent short pieces of writing.
Ø Prepare and deliver organized presentations in small groups and to whole class in their fields of studies
Ø Express themselves orally using the correct forms of words and structure as required by the context.
Ø Build confidence while speaking.
Ø Set good impressions while speaking
Ø Engage in casual and extended conversations with increasing fluency and control of grammatical patterns.
This session includes the revision of chapter one and provides the present chapter (two) to be studies in this week.
Reinforced concrete is basically concrete in which steels bars of desirable magnitude are introduced in
the casting stage so that the resulting composite materials resist the stresses develop due to the external
loads. In flexural members the steel reinforcement is generally provided near the tension face to resist
the tensile stress since the tensile strength of concrete is hardly one tenth of its compressive strength.
In the case of compressive members, the steel reinforcement is distributed uniformly in the cross
section to resist the compressive stresses develop due to the external loads.
The revolutionary engineering concept reinforcing the weak tensile zone of concrete by steel
reinforcement was developed in mild-nineteenth century. The early 20th century witnessed significant
improvements in the development and use of reinforced concrete mainly due to the production of good
quality concrete with improved strength and improved quality of steel with surface characteristics
suitable to develop good bond between concrete and steel.
The success of reinforced concrete as a revolutionary material for use in various types of structures is
mainly due to the improved quality of concrete and steel over the years and also the improved bond
characteristics between the two ingredients.