LSP582 Project Communication in English
LP4 VT26 (4.5 hp)

This course is a compulsory course in both the Computer Engineering and Electrical Engineering programmes, and is run by the department of Communication and Learning in Science Links to an external site.. The two sets of programme students, TIELL and TIDAL, are taught separately in this course because we work in collaboration with their project courses - LET086 for TIELL and LET627 for TIDAL.

Contact details

• Course Examiner and TIELL teacher: Carina Sjöberg Hawke carsjobe@chalmers.se  
• Support Teacher TIELL: Marie Vander Borght
• TIDAL Teacher: Sindija Franzetti sindija@chalmers.se 
• Support Teacher TIDAL: Astrid Liedholm 

For different communication purposes:

• For personal questions, ideally, please use your Canvas Inbox as the main channel of communication.
• For course questions that all students can benefit from knowing the answer to, please use the discussion forum.
• For general course updates or information, the teacher will communicate via Announcements.

Course purpose

The aim of the course is to enhance students' ability to communicate effectively in English, in speech as well as in writing and to enable students to use English for academic writing and oral presentations during their studies.

Learning objectives

After completion of this course, the student should be able to:

• Write and structure a project report in a logical, coherent, and formal manner.
• Plan and deliver an academic oral presentation.
• Critically read and assess technical content and use appropriate referencing in written work.
• Give and receive constructive feedback throughout the project.
• Use a process-oriented approach to written and oral work as a strategy for improving communicative competency in English.
• Plan, track, and account for your language and communication learning during the course.

Link to study portal: Project Communication in English 

Course design

The course focuses on developing technical report writing skills and oral presentation skills with the projects from your project courses. The almost-weekly sessions are primarily seminars, a combination of lecture and workshop activities, to support you with your writing and presenting knowledge and skills.

In addition to writing a report and giving a presentation, the other main assignment is something we call the learning portfolio. This involves a series of tasks that you carry out individually to observe, exemplify, and reflect on your communication and language skills learning during the course.

Content, deadlines, revisions

• Assignments: see table below under the section Examination.
• Process-oriented approach: the writing and speaking assignments are designed to build on each other. For example, feedback is provided on an early draft of the report to help move the report in the right direction, then feedback is provided again on a near-complete draft, to help see if the report is technically appropriate and clear. 
• Assessment: Assessment details for each assignment available on their respective submission pages.
• Deadlines: important to keep to the deadlines. Any issues with meeting deadlines, please contact the relevant teachers. 
• Revisions: if assignment requirements are not met, revisions will be requested. If the task is still not passed after a second return, the assignment must be started over.
• Participation and compensation tasks: attendance of and active participation in class are expected. Please contact the teachers if you have attendance issues. Should any compulsory sessions be missed, a compensation task will be issued.

Canvas
You are probably aware by now that every teacher utilises the Canvas learning platform quite differently. Here in LSP582's Canvas, students have been divided into either a TIELL or TIDAL section (a section on Canvas is just a grouping to help us give you the right access). After you've registered for the course, you should only be able to see TIELL modules and assignments if you are an electro student and TIDAL modules assignments if a data student. If you think you are viewing the wrong modules and assignments, contact the examiner and she will make sure you are assigned to the correct section so you don't get the wrong information for your study in this course.

AI tools disclosure

Since this course emphasizes a process‑oriented approach together with reflection on learning, we ask students to disclose any use of AI or AI‑assisted technologies in all their written and oral submissions. Such transparency builds trust between authors and reviewers (teachers and peers). Disclosures should go beyond a brief statement and include examples of your prompts and AI responses involved, enabling reviewers to offer more nuanced feedback on your communication skills. We also hope this will encourage you to think more critically about AI support. Any specific conditions for specific assignments are stated in the instructions of those assignments. 

Schedule

TIELL students usually meet on Tuesday mornings and TIDAL students Tuesday afternoons, but some weeks there will be no session. TimeEdit will give you an indication of the date, time, and room. For more specific details (topics covered, what to prepare, etc.), see each session page (TIELL session pages, TIDAL session pages).

Remember, any issues with attendance, please get in touch with the relevant instructor sooner rather than later (a missed compulsory sessions will result in a compensation task).

Course literature

There is no specific book or paper for this course. The course material consists of session slides and other recommended materials. Session materials will be published on the relevant session page, either just before the session or just after. If possible, or needed, a set of "heads-up" slides will be published before.

There is a list of support resources, under the module Extra Communication Support Resources.

Changes made since the last course run (2025)

• Grading changed from U/3/4/5 to just pass/fail. Criteria have been updated to adapt to this new context.
• We've tried to work with the learning portfolio information and task to make it more user friendly.

Examination form

There is no written exam. The course is graded pass/fail. In order to receive your passing grade for this 4.5-credit course, all assignments in the table below must be completed and passed according to their requirements (see relevant details on each assignment page).