Modern English Usage and Research Methodology

Paper Code: 
ENG 221
Credits: 
04
Periods/week: 
04
Max. Marks: 
100
Objective: 

The students will:

CO31. Develop an insight into literary elements and identify the use of figures of speech in poetry and prose

CO 32. Acquire an understanding of the key elements of research-based writing, viz. reading, evaluating sources, and developing an argument

CO 33. Acquire the understanding of research design and methodology to produce a coherent and logically-argued written report by looking at the original texts through the lens of the secondary sources

CO 34 Implement  the linguistic skills and research acumen acquired to produce well knitted written work

CO35 Acquire an understanding of research design  with the help of MLA

10.00
Unit I: 

Précis Writing

Report Writing (Academic AND Journalistic)  

13.00
Unit II: 

Literary Appreciation (Poetry)

13.00
Unit III: 

 Literary Appreciation (Prose)

11.00
Unit IV: 

 Research Methodology: Introduction to Literary Research

  • What is Research?

  • Why Write It Up?

  • Why a Formal Paper?

  • From Questions to a Problem
    (from The Craft of Research pp. 10-14, 49-63)

11.00
Unit V: 
  • Documentation and Academic Writing

Why document Sources?

Plagiarism and Academic Dishonesty

Organize: Creating your Documentation:

  • The List of Works Cited

  • In-Text Citations

(from MLA Handbook 8th Edition  pp. 3-10, 19, 20- 58)

 

Source Books: 

 Booth, Wayne C. et.al. The Craft of Research(Fourth Edition).The Univ. of Chicago Press, 2016

MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers.8th Edition.2016.

 

 

 

 

 

SUGGESTED READINGS: 

 Alexander, L.G. Poetry and Prose Appreciation for Overseas Students.  Orient Longman, 1975. 

Boulton, Marjorie. The Anatomy of Poetry.  Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1982. 

Chakravarty, Suhas. News Reporting and Editing.  Kanishka Publishers, 2006. 

Thakkar, Praveen K. Appreciating English Poetry. Orient Longman Limited, 1999. 

Randolph Quirk and Sidney Greenbaum .A University Grammar of English. Pearson ,2018.

 

Journals:

IJES

Journal of English Linguistics

 

E-resources: 

English Language and Literature by Dr. Liza Das & Dr. Krishna Barua,Department of Humanities and Social Sciences,IIT Guwahati. http://nptel.ac.in

 

 

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