Motivating Engineering and Technical Students to Learn Technical Writing by Inculcating Lifelong Learning Skills

• Main Authors: Azelin, Mohamed Noor, Idrus, Hairuzila, Baharom, Mohamed Noor Rosli
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Published: 2011
• Subjects: AS Academies and learned societies (General); L Education (General)
• Online Access: http://eprints.utp.edu.my/3901/1/Paper_on_TPW_LLL_120211.docx; http://thelearner.com/conference-2011/; http://eprints.utp.edu.my/3901/
• Institution: Universiti Teknologi Petronas

The government, industry and the academia saw the importance of soft skills to engineering and technology education. Lifelong learning skill is an attribute in soft skills; one of the thrusts in the National Higher Education Strategic Plan of Malaysia. This paper discusses how lifelong learning skil...