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 today requirements.
Course Contents:
How to write better: How to write a research paper, précis, book reports, and project reports, applying for a job and sales letters.
How to speak better: Good conservation : How to speak in front of a group how to prepare your speech, how to sell your idea, use visuals to prove your point and secrets of good delivery.
Tools: Word power- vocabulary, grammar and usage, spelling and punctuations.
Your voice: Speech blemishes, how to improve your voice: correct pronunciation, recent trends in American speech- English a wonderful, erratic language and dictionary of usage.
Reference Book:
1. Write Better Speak Better- By 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- By 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 & F.T. Wood.
Evaluation:
Internal 60 %
(Class
assignments/tutorials, Class attendance, Tests, Class interactions, and any
laboratory work if required
etc.)
Final 40 %
(Exam, Jury, Term Paper etc.)