6 Dec. 2011, ICCM-Antipolo City. Sixteen freshmen students completed today the 3-unit course on English III (Technical Writing) as part of the second sem course offerings in this Bible college, the International Christian College of Manila. They are Chester Silagan, Ceferino Conching, Jr., Journey Lucino, Bernadeth Lino, Rosemarie Rodriguez, Sherlyn Tuliao, Ferlyn Sitones, Germel Panasigan, Rosenyl Fernandez, Sherwin Aldana, Krisbil Undaloc, Rheanon David Baysa, Don Donald Agresor, Jera Mae Bianes, Jierom Tibalbag and Michael Tobias. The 16 students took their final exams today to culminate the semi-block course which started four weeks ago with class schedule every Monday and Tuesday, to complete the 50-hour CHED requirement for the 3-unit course. All of them will receive grades based on four major criteria – Class participation (via seatwork-writing exercises and quizzes), mid-term, final exams and a term paper.
Base on this professor’s observations, the course seemed difficult to teach as well as hard to learn, as its course objectives cover both the cognitive (knowledge of technical writing) and the psychomotor (writing skills), and freshmen seem unprepared or lack general background required of the course. Thus, we need to adjust our learning methodologies and simplify the course objectives to make it more realistic and attainable. In other universities, just like this professor’s alma mater (UP), scientific writing is offered for thesis students who are generally on their senior year. Nonetheless, with all those adjustments and modifications, these 16 students hoped to have acquired the technical writing know-how as indicated in its syllabus. (JSF reports)
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