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A data processing communication skills course

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Alka Rani Harriger,

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ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, Volume 18, Issue 1

Pages 97 - 102

https://doi.org/10.1145/953055.5695

Published: 01 February 1986 Publication History

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To be a successful business data processing professional, one should possess effective written and oral communication skills; therefore, any program which prepares computing students for the business world should effectively train them in this area. Of the programs that attempt to handle this situation, most merely require their students to take several English/communication courses. From experience, this method is less effective than additionally reinforcing the students' communication skills within the entire range of the computing curriculum. This paper presents a methodology for accomplishing the task of implementing writing into an introductory data processing course.

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Cunningham S(1995)Learning to write and writing to learn: integrating communication skills into the computing curriculumProceedings Software Education Conference (SRIG-ET'94)10.1109/SEDC.1994.475352(306-312)Online publication date: 1995
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Taylor HPaine K(1993)An interdisciplinary approach to the development of writing skills in computer science studentsACM SIGCSE Bulletin10.1145/169073.16950125:1(274-278)Online publication date: 1-Mar-1993
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/169073.169501
Taylor HPaine KKlein BLaxer CYoung F(1993)An interdisciplinary approach to the development of writing skills in computer science studentsProceedings of the twenty-fourth SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education10.1145/169070.169501(274-278)Online publication date: 1-Apr-1993
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A data processing communication skills course
1. Mathematics of computing
  1. Discrete mathematics
    1. Combinatorics
2. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Computing education
      1. Computing education programs
        Computer science education
        Information science education

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Reviewer: Edward Baker James

Many computing curricula acknowledge the importance of writing skills by including a separate course on “communications.” The authors point out that students may write good English on such a course and still fail to apply techniques learned to their mainstream computing reports. This paper describes how to integrate training in communication more effectively with the actual preparation of reports required in the computing section of the syllabus.

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ACM SIGCSE Bulletin Volume 18, Issue 1

Proceedings of the 17th SIGCSE symposium on Computer science education

February 1986

304 pages

ISSN:0097-8418

DOI:10.1145/953055

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SIGCSE '86: Proceedings of the seventeenth SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education
February 1986
336 pages
ISBN:0897911784
DOI:10.1145/5600
Editors:
Joyce Currie Little
Towson State Univ., Baltimore, MD
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Lillian N. Cassel
Univ. of Delaware, Newark

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