English for Communication is an amalgamation of Literature, Language and Communication.
The Literature component of the course comprises of Prose and Poetry.
Poetry
A selection of poetry pieces spanning from 16th century to the Post-Modern Period in English, American and Indian Literature are chosen to introduce to the students to the different poets from different ages and countries and also to acquaint them with the various poetic forms like Sonnet, Ballad, Elegy, Didactic, Dramatic, Nature, Lyric, Romantic, etc. The list is an indicative one
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16th century- 17th century- Geoffrey Chaucer, William Shakespeare, Edmund Spenser, Ben Johnson, Thomas Wyatt.
17th century- 18th century- John Milton, John Donne, George Herbert, John Dryden, Oliver Goldsmith.
18th century- 19th century- Alexander Pope, Thomas Gray, Robert Burns, William Blake, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lord Byron, P.B. Shelley, John Keats, Robert Bridges, Robert Southey, Samuel Johnson.
19th century- 20th century- Alfred Tennyson, Robert Browning, Walter de la Mare, Thomas Hardy, A.E. Housman, Rudyard Kipling, D.H. Lawrence, Wilfred Owen, D.G. Rossetti, Christina Rossetti, Emily Dickinson, Gerald Manley Hopkins, Charlotte Bronte, Lewis Caroll, Edward Fitzgerald, Walt Whitman.
20th century- Present- Ted Hughes, Louis MacNeice, W.B. Yeats, Stephen Spender, W.H. Auden, Nissim Ezekiel, Sarojini Naidu, Jayanta Mahapatra, Robert Frost, , Ezra Pound, E.E. Cummings, T.S. Eliot, Walt Whitman, A.K. Ramanujan, Kamala Das, Rabindranath Tagore, Jack Prelutsky, Chinua Achebe, Maya Angelou, Margaret Atwood, Leonard Cohen, Louise Erdrich, Leslie Marmon Silko.
Prose
A selection of fictional and non-fictional prose pieces spanning from 17th century to the Post-Modern Period. Fiction and non-fictional pieces from English, American, Russian and Indian Literature are chosen to introduce the students to different writings from different ages and countries. The list is an inclusive one consisting of short stories, essays, excerpts, extracts from novels, biographies and memoirs, history, travel and other forms.
17th century- 18th century- Charles Dickens, William Makepeace Thackeray, George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, Lewis Carroll, Arthur Conan Doyle, John Bunyan, Rudyard Kipling, H.G. Wells, R.L, Stevenson, Jane Austen, Emily Bronte, Charles Lamb, F.M. Dostoyevsky, Nikolai Gogol, Daniel Dafoe, Jonathan Swift, Lewis Carroll.
19th century- 20th century- Oscar Wilde, O Henry, H.H. Munro, Mark Twain, Somerset Maughaum, Nathaniel Hawthorne, G.B. Shaw, G.K. Chesterton, Agatha Christie, Gerald Durrell, Will Durant, E.M. Forster, Aldous Huxley, Henry David Thoreau, Anton Chekov, Maxim Gorky, Leo Tolstoy, George Orwell, Rabindranath Tagore, M.K. Gandhi, J. Nehru, Virginia Woolf, Guy De Maupassant, Washington Irving, Margaret Fuller, Charles Darwin, Arthur Conan Doyle, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Edgar Allan Poe.
20th century- Present- J.M. Coetzee, R.K. Narayan, R.K. Laxman, A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, Khushwant Singh, Anita Desai, Yann Martel, Ken Kesey, Stephen King, Thomas King, Richard Wright, N Scott Momaday, Chetan Bhagat, J. Krishnamurthy, Virginia Woolf, Gerald Vizenor, Alice Walker, Chinua Achebe, Jeffrey Archer, Issac Asimov, Roald Dahl, J.R.R. Tolkien, D.H. Lawrence, James Joyce, Oran Pamuk, Salman Rushdie, Bertrand Russell, Ruskin Bond, A.G. Gardiner, John Steinbeck.
Communication
Because communication is so important in business, businesses want and need people with good communication skills. Business communication is a blend of skills like writing and speaking well, displaying proper etiquettes and listening attentively. Communications through technology greatly enhances one’s ability to communicate effectively and articulately. For example, E-mails often result in a sender’s language skills being placed in front of different people simultaneously; while audio and video will reveal the calibre of one’s verbal and diplomatic strengths. The communication aspect of the English for Communication Course includes:
1. The Basics of Business Communication
2. Importance of Listening
3. Barriers in the Communication Process
4. Business Letters (Letter of Inquiry, Complaint, Cover Letter)
5. Resume Writing
6. Memo and Memo Reports
7. Report Writing
8. Fax and E Mail
English Laboratory
Objective: The laboratory component included in the course provides an ideal platform for students to prepare themselves into confident and self-assured individuals. The Lab course is designed to inculcate confidence and clarity in presentation and expression of thought, views and ideas through practice and exercises. It constitutes six basic components to improve listening, reading and writing skill of the students.
Lessons:
1. Pronunciation (Basic sounds of English like Long/Short Vowels; All consonants)
2. Stress Intonation (Rising and Falling)
3. Speaking- Oral Presentations, Group Discussions, Story Telling, Role Plays
4. Listening – Importance and Practice
5. Reading- Practice
6. Writing (Paragraph writing, good writing and bad writing with samples, Indianism), Grammar (Basic- Articles, Prepositions, Verbs, Common Errors , etc)
Text/Reference Books:
- John Seely, The Oxford Guide to Writing and Speaking, OUP
- Krishna Mohan and Meenakshi Raman, Effective English Communication, TMH
- R.W.Lesikar and John.D. Pettit, Business Communication: Theory and Application, All India Traveller Bookseller
- Francis Soundaraj, Speaking and Writing for Effective Business Communication, Macmillan.
- Herta A. Murphy, et al., Effective Business Communication, Tata Mc-Graw Hill: New Delhi
- Ronald B. Adler and George Rodman, Understanding Human Communication, Oxford University Press: New York
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