B A 1st Year Syllabus 2019 for 4 years course C. English

B A 1st Year Syllabus 2019

for 4 years course

C. English

Prescribed Books

CourseDescription:ThisisBAIstyearcompulsoryEnglishcoursesin4yrBA

systemunderFacultyofHumanitiesandSocialsciences,Tribhuvanuniversity.

Thiscourseallowsstudentstoexploretheartofreadingandwriting.Theywill

engagethemselveswithdifferentpatternsofwriting,readessaysandstories

associatedwiththepatternsandworkthroughtherhetoricofthelanguage.

Studentswillrecognizeandpracticetheimportantformof"fourlevelsof

interactingwiththetexts,"significantforcomprehendingtheartofreadingand

writing.

MainObjective:Helpimprovestudents'writingEnglishthroughthepracticesof

different patterns of writing.

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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

UNIT I: THE WRITING PROCESS:

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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 11: PATTERNS OF WRITING: Narration and Description

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andra Cisneros. "Only Daughter"

.FS onnie Smith-Yackel. ``My Mother never Worked"

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/ Martin Gansberg. ``Thirty-Eight who saw the Murder didn't

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Suzanne Be.me. ``Ground Zero"

Heather Rogers. ``The Hidden Life of Garbage"

UNIT111:PATTERNSOFWRITING:CauseandEffectandCompaiisonand 20

Contrast

Cause and Effect:

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Guillermo del Torro and Chuck Hogan. Why Vampires never Die" ,`,.1.iL!j

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

Definition:

}udy Brandy. ``1 want a Wife"

Meghan Daum. "Fame-iness"

Gayle Rosenwald Smith. ``The Wife-Beater"

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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

``Yudhisthira's 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"

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Evaluation system

Internal evaluation 30% ( Internal Examination, class

External evaluation 70% ( annual examination )

Prescribed Texts:

Kr.\szneT,Lanr`eG..Patternsof_Folle.geYr!tin.g:.±.PP.et\Ohr:Cv3`lnrsa,d:r„andGuide.

(12thEdition).Boston,NewYork:Bed ford/St.Martin's.201.2.

Lohani,ShreedharandMotiNissani.FJclx-GOJdenTclJes..AnJnfercJI.scl.PJI.mary

ApprocichCoLeaml.ng\EngJI.sh.Kathmandu,Nepal:EkataBooks.2008`

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