BA I Compulsory English Guide - Bachelors of Arts in Major English

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Compulsory English Guide for BA I

This is BA's first year compulsory English course in 4 year BA system under the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Tribhuvan University. This course allows students to explore the art of reading and writing. They will engage themselves with different patterns of writing, read essays and stories associated with the patterns and work through the rhetoric of the language. Students will recognize and practice the important form of" four levels of interacting with the texts, "significant for comprehending the art of reading and writing. This note is sure to assist the students to comprehend the summary of all.

Main Objective

Help improve students' writing English through the practices of different patterns of writing.

Other objectives

• Help them learn writing though others' writing as given under patterns ( narration, description, comparison and contrast ) and practice them
• Learn the technique of critical reading through reading texts

Annual Plan of BA I Year 2023 - Patterns for College Writing and The Flex Golden Tales

Unit I: The Writing Process

• Reading to Write: Becoming a Critical Reader
• Brent Staples. “Cutting and Pasting: A Senior Thesis” (both the ones)
• Invention
• Arrangement
• Drafting and Revising
• Editing and Proofreading

Unit II: Patterns of Writing: Narration and Description

Narration

Lesson Plan 2: Narration: Essay

• Sandra Cisneros. “Only Daughter”
• Bonnie Smith-Yackel. “My Mother never Worked”
• Martin Gansberg. “Thirty-Eight who saw the Murder didn’t call the Police”

Description

• Jhumpa Lahiri. “Rice”
• Suzanne Berne. “Ground Zero”
• Heather Rogers. “The Hidden Life of Garbage”

Unit III: Patterns of Writing: Cause and Effect and Comparison and Contrast

Cause and Effect

• Stan Cox. The Case against Air Conditioning”
• Lawrence Otis Graham. “The ‘Black Table’ is still There”
• Guillermo del Torro and Chuck Hogan. "Why Vampires never Die”

Comparison and Contrast

• Bruce Catton. Gran and Lee: A Study in Contrast
• Bharati Mukherjee. “Two Ways to Belong in America”
• Amy Chau. “Why Chinese Mothers are Superior”

Unit IV: Patterns of Writing: Definition and Argumentation

Lesson Plan 1: Patterns for College Writing

Definition

• I Want a Wife
• Fame-ness
• The Wife-Beater

Argumentation

What is argumentation?

• No Pay? Many Interns say, 'No Problem'
• The Meat Market
• Let them Drink Water!

Unit V: Critical Reading for Writing

Interactions: Four Levels of Interacting with Texts

• Yudhishthiras-Wisdom
• The Brave Little Parrot
• A 1996 Commencement Speech
• The Wretched Stone
• Marriage is a Private Affair
• Scientific Inquiry: Invention and Test 
• The Stub Book
• Keeping Errors at Bay
• The Telegram on the Table 
• A Tale
• Why Go to University?

Supplementary Articles

• Victorian Literature and its Characteristics
• Clustering / Grouping Ideas

Evaluation system

Internal evaluation 30% ( Internal Examination, class presentation, attendance )

External evaluation 70% ( annual examination )

Prescribed Texts

Kriszner, Laurie G.. Patterns for College Writing: A Rhetorical reader and Guide. (12th Edition). Boston, New York: Bedford/St. Martin’s. 2012.

Lohani, Shreedhar and Moti Nissani. Flax-Golden Tales: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Learning English. Kathmandu, Nepal: Ekata Books. 2008.