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UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM & ENERGY STUDIES

College of Legal Studies
Dehradun

COURSE PLAN

Programme : All LLB courses

Course : General English
Semester : II
Session : January to July. 2017
Batch : 2016 -17
Subject Code : LLBG108
No. of credits : 2
Prepared by : Dr. Radhika B Pasricha
Pradeep Jagwan
Email : rbpasricha@ddn.upes.ac.in

Approved By

_______________________ _______________________
HOD Dean

UPES Campus Tel : +91-135-2770137

“Energy Acres” Fax : +91 135- 27760904
P.O. Bidholi, Dehradun Website : www.upes.ac.in

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 COURSE PLAN

Subject: General English Course: All LLB Courses

Duration: January 2017– July -2017 Subject code: LLBG108

A. OBJECTIVES:

 To impart the correct practices of Email writing & effective networking skills

 To provide basic understanding of Research Paper Writing and its execution

 To underline the significance of acquiring right language skills through literature

 To apply and practice the effective presentation skills

B. Learning Outcomes:

Unit Learning Outcomes

Unit-1 Students will be able to apply the correct practices of Email

writing & effective networking skills
Unit-2 Students will be able to compose an abstract of a research paper as
well as bio-briefing
Students will be able to explain the different stages of a research paper
Students will be able to construct the right layout of research paper
with appropriate and accurate referencing styles

Unit-3 Students will be able to enrich their vocabulary and language

skills through literature
Unit-4 Students will be able to acquire and demonstrate the effective
presentation skills with confidence and poise

C. COURSE OUTLINE

It has 4 Units which are as follows:

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 General English-II
Unit-I- Technology Integrated Communication-5 Sessions

1.1.E-mail @ Work
 Do’s & Don’ts of Email Writing
 Coping with Email overload
 Netiquette
1.2.Professional Networking on LinkedIn
 Networking for Professional Growth
 Job search & Professional Networking
 Networking in the Twenty-First Century
 LinkedIn for Professional Networking

Unit-II- Research Paper Writing Skills – 5 Sessions

2.1. Legal Research Paper/ Article Writing

 Abstract Writing
 Bio-brief
 Legal Research Paper Drafting, Planning, Structure and Content of a Forma
Document.
 Referencing Styles (MLA, APA & Chicago)

Unit-III- Legal Language through Literature (Selective) -3 Sessions

3.1. Choose any one of the given texts:

 John Grisham’s ‘The Summons’
 Mahashweta Devi’s story ‘Draupadi’ on Gender Inequality
 Play ‘Justice’ by John Galsworthy
 George Bernard Shaw Arms and the Man
 William Shakespearean Plays: The Merchant of Venice ‘Trial Scene’/ Othello/
Macbeth/ Julius Caesar
 Agatha Christie Novels: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926)
 Play ‘Final Solutions’ by Mahesh Dattani
 ‘The Trial of Bhagat Singh’
 Biography/Autobiography of Martin Luther and Nelson Mandela
 Play ‘The Refund ’ by Fritz Karinthy

Unit-IV- Effective Presentation Skills -11 Sessions

1.1.Based on the Literary Work Chosen

 Defining the Purpose of a Presentation
 Preparing an Outline

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  Organizing Content
 Role of Paralinguistic Features in Presentation
 Individual Presentation

D.PEDAGOGY

Interactive approach during the study. (Students are supposed to come prepared for
the topics for discussion in the class/ case studies/ Presentations/ Viva-voce),
randomly any student can be called on the board to solve the problems.

Work in small groups for Group Projects and personalized teaching

(Student counseling, mentoring and individual/group projects/ assignments, exercises

using Solver and excel etc.)

 Presentations (Paper/Group Project)

 Case Study
 Group Projects (may include practical assignments)
 Chalk and talk
 Random Questioning
 Reflections
 Course room exercise
 Case Analysis

E. COURSE COMPLETION PLAN

Sessions: 2 (lectures of 1 hour each) for a 2 credit course.
Total hours per week: 2 hours per week.

F. EVALUATION & GRADING

Description Weight age Schedule

1. Internal Assessment 30% Detailed Below

2. Mid-term Exam 20% Academic Calendar

3. End term Exam 50% Academic Calendar

Internal Assessment: Marks 100 (shall be done based on the following 3 components):

Description Weight age Schedule:-

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 1. Internal Assessment 30% Detailed Below

Continuous Assessment shall be done based on the following 3 components:

a. Role Play – 100 Marks
b. Article submission - 100 Marks
c. Presentation - 100 Marks

*All these 100 Marks components would be reduced to 30%. (Internal Assessment)

2. Mid- Sem Examination: 20% Weightage

Mid- Sem examination shall be of two hour duration and shall be a combination of
Objective, short and long theory and application based questions.

3. End -Sem Examination: 50% Weightage

End-Sem examination shall be of three hours duration. The examination paper
shall have objective & theory questions, short and long theory and analytical
questions.

Passing Criterion: minimum 40% of the highest marks in the class

Student has to secure minimum 40% marks of the “highest marks in the class scored by a
student in that subject (in that class/group class)” individually in both the ‘End-Semester
examination’ and ‘Total Marks’ in order to pass in that paper.

Passing Criterion: minimum 40% of the highest marks in the class

Student has to secure minimum 40% marks of the “highest marks in the class
scored by a student in that subject (in that class/group class)” individually in
both the ‘End-Semester examination’ and ‘Total Marks’ in order to pass in that
paper.

Attendance

Students are required to have minimum attendance of 75% in each subject. Students with
less than said percentage shall NOT be allowed to appear in the end semester examination.
The student obtaining 100% attendance would be given 5% bonus marks for internal
assessment.

Cell Phones and other Electronic Communication Devices: Cell phones and other
electronic communication devices (such as Blackberries/Laptops) are not permitted in
classes during Tests or the Mid/Final Examination. Such devices MUST be turned off in
the class room.

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 E-Mail and LMS: Each student in the class should have an e-mail id and a pass word to
access the LMS system regularly. Regularly, important information – Date of conducting
class tests, guest lectures, syndicate sessions etc. to the class will be transmitted via e-
mail/LMS. The best way to arrange meetings with us or ask specific questions is by email
and prior appointment. All the assignments preferably should be uploaded on LMS.
Various research papers/reference material will be mailed/uploaded on LMS time to time.

G. DETAILED SESSION PLAN

SESSION TOPIC Learning REFERENCE PEDAGOG

Outcomes Y
5 Unit-I- Students will 1. Model Chalk &
Sessions Technology Integrated be able to Business Talk
Communication- apply the Letters, Emails Examples
5 Sessions correct and other Discussion
1.1 E-mail @ Work practices of Business PPT
Email writing Documents – Presentation
Session1  Do’s & Don’ts of & effective Shirley Taylor, Random
Email Writing networking 7th Edition- questions
skills Pearson (2012)
 Coping with 2. Online
Email overload Communicatio
n Strategies for
Managers –
Smeeta Mishra
& Mathukutty
M Monippally,
McGraw Hill
Session 2  Netiquette
Education(Indi
a)Pvt
1.2 Professional Ltd(2014)
Networking on LinkedIn 3. Maximum
Success with
Session 3  Networking for Linkedin – Dan
Professional Sherman,
Growth McGraw Hill
 Job search & Education(Indi
Professional a)Pvt Ltd
Networking (2014)

Session 4  Networking in the

Twenty-First
Century

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Session 5  LinkedIn for
Professional
Networking

Unit-II- Students will be 1.2009, Whiteboard

5 Sessions Research Paper able to compose an Suzanne E. Examples
Writing Skills – 5 abstract of a Rowe. The Discussion
Sessions research paper as Author is an Presentation
well as bio-briefing Associate Reflections
Students will be Professor and
able to explain the the Director of
different stages of Legal Research
a research paper. and Writing at
2.1 Legal Research Paper Students will the University
/ be able to of Oregon
Article Writing construct the School of Law.
Session 6  Abstract Writing right layout of 2. 29 Stetson
research paper L. Rev. 1193
Session 7  Bio-brief with (2000).
appropriate 3. Brill, supra
and accurate n. 1, at 17
Session 8  Legal Research referencing (noting that
Paper Drafting, styles “analysis is
Planning, inherent in
Structure and writing”);
Content of a 4. 76 Neb. L.
Forma Document. Rev. 561, 562
(1997) (arguing
Session 9  Referencing Styles that
(MLA, APA & communication
Chicago) is inseparable
from analysis);
Session10  Presenting 5. University
Research Skills
Paper Development
Series, 47 J.
Leg. Educ.
280, 280
(1997) (book
review)
6. Laurel
Currie Oates &
Anne Enquist,
The Legal
Writing
Handbook:
Analysis,
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 Research, and
Writing 73–74,
199–200, 286–
287, 354–355
(4th ed., Aspen
Publishers
2006)

3 Sessions Unit-III-
Legal Language Students will 1)To kill a
through Literature be able to mocking bird
(Selective) -3 Sessions enrich their Author -
vocabulary Harper LEE – PPT
3.1 Choose any one of and language Publisher: Presentation
the skills through ARROW Reflections
given texts: literature Publication:
2015
Session  Mahashwet
11-13 a Devi’s 2The Merchant
story of Venice
‘Draupadi’ Author –
on Gender William
Inequality Shakespeare
 John Publisher:
Grisham’s Maple Press
‘The Publication:
Summons’ 2013
 Mahashwet
a Devi’s 3)The
story Summons
‘Draupadi’ Author: John
on Gender Grisham
Inequality Publisher:
 Play Random House
‘Justice’ Publication:
by John Edition: 2011
Galsworth
y 4) The Trial of
 George Bhagat Singh
Bernard Author: A. G.
Shaw Arms NOORANI
and the Publisher:
Man Oxford
University
 William
Press
Shakespear
Publication:
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 ean Plays: 2005
 The
Merchant 5) Refund
of Venice Author: Fritz
‘Trial Karinthy
Scene’/ Publisher:
Othello/ Samuel French
Macbeth/ Publication:
Julius 1938
Caesar
 Play ‘Final
Solutions’
by Mahesh
Dattani
 ‘The Trial
of Bhagat
Singh’
 Biography/
Autobiogra
phy of
Martin
Luther and
Nelson
Mandela
 The Refund

11 Unit-IV- Students will be 1. Effective

Sessions Effective Presentation able to acquire and Presentation -
Skills -11 Sessions demonstrate the Ros Jay and
effective Antony Jay. Whiteboard
4.1 Based on the Literary presentation skills Examples
Work Chosen with confidence 2. Business Discussion
 Defining the and poise Communicatio Presentation
Session14 Purpose of a n-Pg : 99 - 110, Reflections
Presentation K.K.Sinha .

3. Basic
 Preparing an
Business
Outline
Communicatio
n -Pg : 432 -
Session15  Organizing 448, Lesikar
Content
and Flatley.
 Role of
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 Paralinguistic 4. Business
Features in Correspondenc
Presentation e & Report
Session16- Individual Presentation writing - R.C
24 Sharma and
Krishna
Mohan, Pg
: 236 -243.

END – SEMESTER EXAMINATIONS

C. Evaluation Scheme: Continuous Evaluation

Description Marks Schedule

1. Continuous Assessment 30 % Detailed below

2. Mid Semester Exams 20 % Refer Academic Calendar

3. End Semester Exam 50 % Refer Academic Calendar

H. SUGGESTED READINGS:

SUGGESTED READING

1. Model Business Letters, Emails and other Business Documents – Shirley Taylor, 7th
Edition- Pearson (2012)

2. Online Communication Strategies for Managers – Smeeta Mishra & Mathukutty M

Monippally, McGraw Hill Education(India)Pvt Ltd(2014)

3. Maximum Success with Linkedin – Dan Sherman, McGraw Hill Education(India)Pvt Ltd
(2014)

4. .2009, Suzanne E. Rowe. The Author is an Associate Professor and the Director of Legal
Research and Writing at the University of Oregon School of Law.

5. 29 Stetson L. Rev. 1193 (2000).

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6. Brill, supra n. 1, at 17 (noting that “analysis is inherent in writing”);

7. 76 Neb. L. Rev. 561, 562 (1997) (arguing that communication is inseparable

from analysis); 5. University Skills
Development Series, 47 J. Leg. Educ. 280, 280 (1997) (book review)

8. Laurel Currie Oates & Anne Enquist, The Legal Writing Handbook: Analysis, Research,
and Writing 73–74, 199–200, 286–287, 354–355 (4th ed., Aspen Publishers 2006)

9. To kill a mocking bird

Author - Harper LEE –

Publisher: ARROW

Publication: 2015

10. The Merchant of Venice

Author – William Shakespeare

Publisher: Maple Press

Publication: 2013

11. The Summons

Author: John Grisham

Publisher: Random House

Publication: Edition: 2011

12. The Trial of Bhagat Singh

Author: A. G. NOORANI

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Publication: 2005

13. Refund

Author: Fritz Karinthy

Publisher: Samuel French

Publication: 1938

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14. Effective Presentation - Ros Jay and Antony Jay.

15. Business Communication-Pg : 99 - 110, K.K.Sinha .

16. Basic Business Communication -Pg : 432 - 448, Lesikar and Flatley.

17. Business Correspondence & Report writing - R.C Sharma and Krishna Mohan, Pg :
236 -243.

I. Instructions
Students are expected to read the concerned session’s contents in advance before coming to
the class.
b.) The session will be made interactive through active participation from students. The entire
session will be conducted through question-answer, reflections, discussion, current practices,
examples, problem solving activities and presentations etc.
c.) In the case study session all students are expected to prepare their analysis and
answers/decisions individually.
d.) All schedules/announcements must be strictly adhered to.
e.) Late entry(Max. 5 minutes from the class timing) in the class will not be allowed.
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