Objective:
To enable students to write better and speak better especially in English as a foreign language, a library language and a language to carry on day-to-day requirements.
Course Contents:
How to write better: Good writing : Secrets of good letter writing, personal correspondence, social notes and invitations, how to write for information, how to complain writing to newspapers, writing about your school/college and career.
Tools: Word power- vocabulary, grammar and usage, spelling and punctuations
How to speak better: Good conversation : The art of being a successful host, meeting a famous person, how you come across on the telephone, how to handle an interview and how to run a meeting.
Reference book:
1. Write Better Speak Better: Reader’s Digest
2. English Grammar and Composition- By Martin.
3. English Grammar and Composition-By C. Francis
4. English Grammar- By Oliver (Macmillan)
5. The Book of Virtues- By William J Bennett (Simon & Schuster)
6. Selected Reading From- World’s Literatures.
7. A guide to good English- By God Frey Howard.
8. Newfield’s English Grammar, Composition and Usage- By N.K. Agarwal and F.T. Wood.
Evaluation:
Internal 60 %
(Class
assignments/tutorials, Class attendance, Tests, Class interactions, and any
laboratory work if required
etc.)
Final 40 %
(Term Paper etc.)