Ye Park

Prof. Conaway

ENGL 1105

26 October 2015

Outline

 Is English Class Necessary for Engineering Students?

Thesis: Many engineering major students regard their first college English classes as trivial and worthless and classes, which are insufficient and irrelevant to their major; however, in fact, these college English classes are considered as a significant element in an education in the field of engineering, providing engineering students with fundamental communication skill, technical writing ability, and a primitive groundwork as global engineers

I.                  Introduction: My friends and I thought English classes were unnecessary to the science or engineering major students.

A.    Common stereotype that people have in their minds: Engineering students do not have to learn English or do English well.

B.    Realization of an importance of learning English: Anecdote of what I faced and struggled in Engineering class and how it had made me re-think about the value of learning English as a future engineer.

II.                  Main Points 

A.    English classes help engineering students build strong communication skills.

                                      i.     Communication skills are built by group activities which require teamwork and cooperation.

                                    ii.     Strong communication skills make engineering students more prepared engineers.

B.    Technical writing technique plays an essential role in engineering studies.

                                      i.     Every problem solving formats, every report of product designs, and every project that are given in the Engineering class, should be written based on technical writing.

C.    Accepted as most widespread language in the world, learning English is very significant to the engineering students, who are looking forward to become global engineers.

                                      i.     The use of English became so common that the education of English provides basic foundations to engineering students who want to be global engineers.

III.                  Counter Arguments.

A.    Most of the engineering curriculum contain problem development and calculation both which are not related to English.

B.    Writing skills that are required for the engineering curriculum are already taught in the high school English classes.

IV.            Conclusion: Conclude overall contents stated above.

A.    Restate the thesis.

B.    Emphasize the main points.