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
Précis Writing
Report Writing (Academic AND Journalistic)
Literary Appreciation (Poetry)
Literary Appreciation (Prose)
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)
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)
Drafting a Research Proposal (https://pg.ust.hk>forms>HUMAguideline)
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.
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