B.A 1st Year 2 Semester (AEC) Ability Enhancment Course English Syllabus (NEP)

SEMESTER II

ABILITY ENHANCEMENT COURSE

Course Title:              AEC-II: Language Skills: Reading and Writing

Course Code:             ENG (AEC)-031

Typology of Course:  AEC

Course Duration:       60 hours of practical in one semester (4hr/week)

Credits:                      2 credits

Maximum Marks:     50 marks (30 Theory+15 Practical+5 Internal Assessment)

Practical & Tutorials in all subjects to the capacity of only 20 students per lecture class.

Learning Objectives of the Course:

• Learn to compose comprehensive and well-structured paragraphs
• Learn to utilize literary terms and vocabulary, critical methods, and various lenses of interpretation in their writing
• To apply rules of grammar
• To learn the formatting and documenting conventions of the discipline

Pedagogy of the Course:

              a) The paper requires 4hoursof practical per week during which students will be taught and                      explained the aspects of reading and writing through practical and hands-on training.

              b) For the practical exam, student will be asked to read a text, paraphrase a given text, answer                questions and interpret graphs and charts

              c) The practical evaluation, which carries 15 marks, will be done by an external examiner                        either from the same institution/department or from outside.

Course Contents:

Unit I: Reading (Text: Interact: A Course in Communicative English, Cambridge)

                          1. Close Reading
                          2. Comprehension
                          3. Summary
                          4. Paraphrasing
                          5. Interpreting Graphs and Charts

Unit II. Writing (Text: Writing Skills, Cambridge, 03-57)

                          1. Paragraph Writing
                          (Available in Print and e-book: Effective Academic Writing I&II, Alice
                           Savage & Patricia Mayer, OUP (USA, 2006)
                           2. Note-Making
                           3. Letter/E-mail Writing
                           4. Resume Writing
                           5. Report Writing

Suggested Readings:

• On Track: English Skills for Success, Orient BlackSwan.
• Embark: English for Undergraduates, Steve Hart, Arvind R. Nair and Veena Bharti, Cambridge University Press.
• Connect: Course in Communicative English, Debashis Bandyopadhyay and Malathi Krishnan, Cambridge University Press.
• Enrich Your English, S.R. Inthira and V. Saraswathi, Oxford University Press.
• Communication and Language Skills, Sanghita Sen, et al, Cambridge University Press.
• Practical English, K.K. Singh, APH Publishing Corporation.
• Language, Literature and Creativity, Orient BlackSwan.The Elements of Style, William Strunk Jr. and E.B. White, Pearson.
• On The Art of Writing. Arthur Quiller-Couch, Notion Press.
• Fluency in English Part II, Oxford University Press.

Testing Scheme:

Max. Marks: 50 marks

Theory: 30 marks

Practical: 15 marks Internal Assessment: 05 marks

Time: 3hours

Note- Question no. 1 is compulsory. Attempt two questions from Section B and two questions
from Section C.

Section-A

Q.1. Short Notes. Two out of five to be attempted in not more than 150 words each.

                                                                                                                                                 (10 marks)

Section-B

Attempt two questions out of given four:                                                                            (10 marks)

Q2. Reading Comprehension
Q.3. Summarise a given passage.
Q.4. Write a paraphrase of the given passage
Q.5. Interpreting Graphs and Charts

Section-C

Attempt any two questions out of five:                                                                            (10 marks)

Q.6. Paragraph Writing
Q.7. Note-Making
Q.8.Letter/E-mail Writing
Q.9. Resume Writing
Q.10.Report Writing