Presented by Arjun Babu Dauliya and other C. English Lecturer
What is Academic Writing?
ü Non-frictional
Production.
ü The
usage of Persuasive tools.
ü Application
of ETHOS, LOGOS, and PATHOS.
ü Setting
Limits: Length, Purpose, Audience, Occasion, and Knowledge
Prof. Dr. Gautam
cites Jayakanthan(JK, 1934-2015), “A writer’s duty is to give voice to those
who can’t speak; eyes to those who can’t see’; a mind to those who can’t think;
& a heart to those who can’t feel.”
What Literature Is.
• Writing
with artistic merits is how literature is often defined.
• It
is a diverse field of study that draws students from all around the world.
Overall, it’s the mirror of society using literary
tools.
Course Description of C. English
• Name
of the Subject: Compulsory English (Reading and Writing in English (C. ENG.
401)
• Students
at TU’s Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences will examine the craft of
reading and writing.
• They
will experiment with several writing styles, read essays and stories that
correspond to them, and study language rhetoric.
The critical form of “four levels of interacting with the
texts” will be recognized by the students.
Objectives
Ø Encourage
learners to practice various writing styles in order to improve their writing.
Ø Help
the students practice writing narratives, descriptions, comparisons, and
contrast as described under the writing patterns.
Ø Teach
them the skills of critical reading through literature.
UNIT I: THE WRITING PROCESS
v Reading
to Write: Becoming a Critical Reader Brent Staples. “Cutting and Pasting: A
Senior Thesis…”
v Invention
v Arrangement
v Drafting
and Revising
v Editing
and Proofreading
UNIT II: PATTERNS OF WRITING: Narration and Description-20%
Narration
q Sandra
Cisneros. “Only Daughter”
q Bonnie
Smith-Yackel, “My Mother never Worked”
q Martin
Gansberg, “Thirty-Eight who saw the Murder didn't call the Police”
Description
v
Jhumpa
Lahiri, “Rice”
v
Suzanne
Berne, “Ground Zero”
v
Heather
Rogers, “The Hidden Life of Garbage.”
Comparison and Contrast
ü Bruce
Catton, “Gran and Lee: A Study in Contrast.”
ü Bharati
Mukherjee, “Two Ways to Belong in America.”
ü Amy
Chau, “Why Chinese Mothers are Superior.”
Definition
- Judy
Brandy, “I want a Wife.”
- Meghan
Daum, “Fame-iness.”
- Gayle
Rosenwald Smith, “The Wife-Beater”
Argumentation
• Jennifer Halperin, “No Pay? Many Interns say, No
Problem.”
• Alex Tabarrok, “The Meat Market.”
• Daniel Engber, “Let them Drink Water!”
UNIT V: Critical Reading
for Writing---20%
Interactions: Four
Levels of Interacting with Texts
q
Yudhisthira's
Wisdom
q
The Brave
Little Parrot
q
A 1996
Commencement Speech
q
The Wretched
Stone
q
Marriage is a
Private Affair"
q
Scientific
Inquiry: Invention and Test
q
The Stub Book
q
Keeping
Errors at Bay
q
The Telegram on the Table
q
A Tale
q
Why Go to
University
Internal Evaluation 30%
v Internal
Examinations
v Presentation
in the Class
v Portfolio
v Attendance
v Discipline.
External Evaluation
70%
q
Annual
examination in written form.