CourseDescription:ThisisBAIstyearcompulsoryEnglishcoursesin4yrBA

systemunderFacultyofHumanitiesandSocialsciences,Tribhuvanuniversity.
Thiscourseallowsstudentstoexploretheartofreadingandwriting.Theywill
engagethemselveswithdifferentpatternsofwriting,readessaysandstories
associatedwiththepatternsandworkthroughtherhetoricofthelanguage.
Studentswillrecognizeandpracticetheimportantformof"fourlevelsof
interactingwiththetexts,"significantforcomprehendingtheartofreadingand
writing.

MainObjective:Helpimprovestudents'writingEnglishthroughthepracticesof
different patterns of writing. f
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

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UNIT I: THE WRITING PROCESS:
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"
/ 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
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Contrast

Cause and Effect:

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Guillermo del Torro and Chuck Hogan. Why Vampires never Die" ,`,.1.iL!j
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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 20

Definition:
}udy Brandy. ``1 want a Wife"
Meghan Daum. "Fame-iness"
Gayle Rosenwald Smith. ``The Wife-Beater"

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" EEEIHH
``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"

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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