Spring 2022 ENG 499: SEMINAR PAPER

3 CREDITS MARKS: 100

A seminar is ‘a class at a university or a college for a small group of students and a teacher to
study or discuss a particular topic’. There are other definitions too. For example, Peter Barry in
his Beginning theory points out that ‘a French seminar is not a group discussion but a kind of
extended lecture for graduate-level students’. In our course, Seminar Paper, we will follow the
first definition. Students will be taught, first, how to hold academic discussions and later
develop those discussions into academic papers following MLA style sheet. Once the paper is
ready, students will have to present them as seminars as well.

Prescribed books for the course:

Wishon, George E. & Julia M. Burks Let’s Write English

Sawers, Neil. Better Essays & Term Papers

Correa, Delia da Sousa and W. R. Owens. The Handbook of Literary Research

Bullock, Richard et al. The Little seagull Handbook

Kothri, C. R. and Gourav Garg. Research Methodology

Anderson, Marilyn and others. Critical Thinking Academic Writing and Presentation Skills

MLA Handbook 7th and 8th editions

Course requirements: Students will be required to write two seminar papers of approximately
between 700 to 1000 words and sit for a first term and a mid-term; the final test will comprise
of the submission of the second paper and its presentation in a seminar.