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UNIT II APPRECIATIVE LISTENING AND IMPROMPTU 6
Listening - Listening to motivational speeches, music and poetry. Speaking – pick and talk, short talks on any
event on topics- a trip to remember, a job I’d love to have, etc. – Vocabulary: Collocation.

Unit III INFORMATIVE LISTENING AND PERSUASIVE SPEAKING 6
Listening – Listening- to gather information such as facts, directions, news or instructions. Speaking – Persuasive
speaking- convincing the audience with the speaker’s view on the topics- food additives and unhealthiness,
financial education is important in today’s world, etc. – Vocabulary: Idioms and Phrases.

Unit IV CRITICAL LISTENING AND SPEAKING ON SPECIAL OCCASION 6
Listening – Critical Listening- listening to examine and evaluate the message for logic and truth - televised debate,
election campaign. Speaking – speech to commemorate a person or an event- speech of Introduction, etc. –
Vocabulary: Foreign Words and Phrases.

Unit V EMPATHETIC LISTENING AND DEMONSTRATIVE SPEAKING 6
Listening– Empathetic Listening – paying attention to another person with empathy – listening to problems and
issues (videos). Speaking – Demonstrative speaking – Demonstrate a process using visual aids (charts, graphs,
maps, pictures, etc.) – Grammar: Different types of Questions.
TOTAL: 30 PERIODS
OUTCOMES
On completion of the course students will be able to
 Identify the different types of listening and speaking for effective interpersonal communication.
 Discuss and respond to content of a listening passage.
 Comprehend and answer questions based on the texts/passages given.
 Understand different genres of texts and comprehend the materials to improve their vocabulary and are familiar
with new words, phrases, sentence structures and ideas.
 Make inferences and predictions about spoken discourse.

REFERENCES
1. “Technical Communication – Principles and Practice,” Second Edition – Meenakshi Raman and Sangeetha
Sharma, Oxford University Press, December, 2011.
2. “Interpersonal Skills: How to develop Interpersonal Skills for work and home,” Henry Lee (Kindle Edition)
3. “Teaching the Core Skills of Listening and Speaking,” Erik Palmer (Kindle Edition)

MA 17353 PROBABILITY AND STATISTICS L T P C
Common to Chemical, Biotech, BME & IT 3 2 0 4

OBJECTIVES
 To provide the required skill to apply the statistical tools in Engineering problems.

UNIT I ONE – DIMENSIONAL RANDOM VARIABLE 15
Discrete and continuous random variables – Moments – Moment generating functions –Binomial, Poisson,
Geometric, Uniform, Exponential, Gamma, Weibull and Normal distributions – Functions of Random
Variable.
UNIT II TWO - DIMENSIONAL RANDOM VARIABLES 15
Joint distributions – Marginal and conditional distributions – Covariance – Correlation andLinear regression –
Transformation of random variables – Applications of Central Limit Theorem.

UNIT III TESTING OF HYPOTHESIS 15
Statistical hypothesis - Large sample test based on Normal distribution for single mean and difference of
means -Tests based on t, F and Chi-square test for single sample standard deviation. Chi-square tests for
independence of attributes and goodness of fit.

UNIT IV DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS 15
One way and Two way classifications - Completely randomized design – Randomized blockdesign – Latin
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