Suggestion of English Writing Skills -2019 For 1st Year
PART-A
Writing: Introduction
1. What is writing?
2. What kind of skill is writing?
3. What is language?
4. How many skills are there in English?
5. What are the four skills in English
6. What are the integrated skills of language?
7. What is brain storming?
8. Write down the names of stages of writing
process.
9. Define cohesion in writing.
10. What do you mean by drafting?
11. What is bibliography?
12. What is skimming?
13. How does scanning differ from skimming?
14. What do you know about
biography?
15. What is
plagiarism?
16. What is subjectivity?
17. What is objectivity?
18. What is Scanning?
19. What is proofreading?
20. What does revising mean?
Paragraph
1. What is a paragraph?
2. What is a process paragraph?
4. What is the topic sentence in a
paragraph?
5. What are the functions of a
topic sentence?
6. What is Terminator in writing a composition?
7. What is an expository paragraph?
8. What is a definition paragraph?
9. What is the controlling
idea in a paragraph?
10. What is a lead sentence?
11. What is the key-sentence in a paragraph?
12. Name different types of paragraphs.
13. What is a cause and effect paragraph?
14. What is descriptive paragraph?
15. What is a contrast paragraph?
16. What do you know about
persuasive paragraph?
17. What do you know about
argumentative paragraph?
18. What is a classification paragraph?
19. What is a comparison paragraph?
20. What are the essential parts of a paragraph?
21. What are
the features or characteristics or qualities of a good paragraph?
22. What are the elements of a paragraph?
23. What do we need to do to write a good topic sentence?
24. What is the developer of a paragraph?
25. What is the terminator in a paragraph?
26. How many step processes or
preparation are there for a paragraph development?
26. What is coherence in a paragraph?
27. Give the layout of a paragraph.
28. Which is the basic difference
between paragraph and essay?
29. Which is complete- essay or paragraph?
30. What is restatement in a paragraph?
Linkers/Transitions/Discourse Markers:
1. What do you mean by linkers?
2. What are transitions?
3. Why are “discourse markers” needed in writing?
4. Give a list of three sentence
linkers or connectors used to write a coherent paragraph.
5. What is the function of linkers in a paragraph?
6. What are the linkers commonly
used in a contrast paragraph?
7. What linkers are used in writing an example paragraph?
Essay
1. What is an
expository essay?
2. What is the function of an expository essay?
3. What do you mean by narrative essay?
4. Define a formal essay.
5. What do you know about thesis statement?
6. Give a definition of subjective essay?
7. Name a
title on which an argumentative essay can be written.
8. Write down the names of four types of essays.
9. What do you mean by an essay?
10. What are the different types of essays?
11. Discuss different features or
characteristics or elements or qualities of an essay?
12. How many parts are there in an essay?
13. What is an ‘introduction’ in
an essay?
14. Show the position of ‘thesis
statement’ in an introductory of an essay.
15. What is the main body of an essay?
16. What is the conclusion of an essay?
17. Give an outline of an essay.
18. What is descriptive essay?
19. What do you know about critical essay?
20. What is a literary essay?
21. What is the function of an argumentative essay?
22. What is argumentative essay?
23. What is persuasive essay?
24. What do you mean by an example essay?
25. What purpose does the first paragraph of an essay serve?
Report
1. What is a
report?
2. What is Survey Report?
3. What are the parts of a survey
report?
4. What is a newspaper
report?
5. Name the parts of a news report.
6. What does a reporter enquire in writing a news report?
7. For whom are news reports written?
8. What is the purpose of a news report?
9. What is the main aim of writing a report?
10. What is a Business Report?
11. What is
the structure of a short report?
12. Name the types of report.
13. What is ‘Lead paragraph’?
14. What is ‘Story’ in a report?
15. What are the elements or
features or characteristics of writing a report?
16. What is the aim of writing a
report?
17. What do you know about a
formal report?
18. What are the differences between a formal and an informal
report?
19. How will you define a business
report?
20. Why is long report prepared?
21. What is appendix?
22. What is glossary?
23. What is executive summary?
24. What is the lead in a news report?
25. What are the four imperatives for writing headlines?
26. What is the purpose of a headline in a report?
27. What is an informal report?
Letter
1. What is a business latter?
2. What is a letter of complaint?
3. What is D.O. letter?
4. What is a formal letter?
5. What are the parts of a formal letter?
6. What is an informal letter?
7. How many parts are there in an informal letter?
8. What is a cover letter?
9. Write the difference between a
formal and an informal letter.
10. What are the essential elements of an official letter?
11. How is a business letter
different from other general report?
12. What are the “four A’s” of sales letter?
13. What is L/C?
14. What is the subscription in a letter?
15. What is a letter?
16. How many kinds of letter are there?
17. What should be the proper complementary closing of a Job
Application?
18. What does N.B. stand for?
19. What
is tone?
20. What
is mood?
21. What is the elaboration of PS?
22. What is an official letter?
23. Name the types or kinds of
business letter.
24. How many parts are there in a private letter?
25. What is the most important part of a letter?
26. Give two examples of formal letter.
27. How many parts are there in an application?
Press Release
1. Give the definition of a press release.
2. What is the purpose of a press release?
3. What kind of announcement is a press release?
4. What is the headline of a press release?
5. What special mark should be
used at the end of a press release?
6. What is an embargo?
7. What is embargo date?
8. Why does a company send a press release to the media?
9. What is dateline in a press release?
10. What is boilerplate?
11. Who are the targets of a press release?
12. What are the Wh-words that a press release must answer?
13. What are the four imperatives for writing headlines?
Memo
1. What is a memo?
2. What is the purpose of a memo?
3. What does the word memorandum mean?
4. What is the full name of memo?
5. Mention the types of memo.
6. What are
the parts or elements of a memo?
7. Give the format of a memo.
8. What are
the functions of a memo?
9. How memos are different from letters?
10. To whom are memos written?
Notice
1. What is a notice?
2. What is the function of a notice?
3. What is the difference between a notice and a circular?
4. Where a notice hung?
5. What type of communication is notice?
6. Where is a notice published?
7. What is the aim of a notice?
CV/Resume/Bio-Data
1. What do you mean by bio-data?
2. What is CV?
3. What does CV stand for?
4. What is Resume?
5. What is biography?
6. What is academic CV?
7. What is the American word for CV?
Minutes
1. Define minutes.
2. What are the types of minutes?
3. What purposes do minutes serve?
4. Who usually takes notes during a meeting?
5. When do minutes are prepared?
Notes
1. What is a briefing note?
2. What is the objective or purpose or aim of a note?
3. Why do we take notes?
4. What are the three main parts of a note?
5. What are the types of briefing?
6. Who is the introducer of Cornell note taking system?
Extra Questions
1. Define modifiers.
2. At least how many person needs for a dialogue?
3. What is essay hook?
4. What are signposts?
5. What is the bing, the bang and
the bongo?
6. What is ‘point of view’?
7. What is a dialogue?
8. What is context modulator?
9. What is the function of a
‘context modulator’?
10.
What is paceline?
PART-B:
Paragraph
1. How do you define a paragraph? What are the essential parts of
a paragraph?
2. What is topic sentence in a
paragraph?
3. What is the five step process
of paragraph development?
4. Name different types of paragraph.
5. How are listing and cause and effect paragraphs developed?
6. How is cause and effect paragraph developed?
7. What do you understand by a cause and effect paragraph?
8. What are the features of a comparison
paragraph?
9. Give the possible structures of
a comparison-contrast paragraph.
10. Distinguish between narrative and descriptive paragraph.
11. What is plagiarism? How can
you avoid plagiarism?
12. Define cohesion in writing.
13. What is brainstorming? How
does it help you in writing a paragraph?
14. What is a contrast paragraph?
15. Write a topic sentence for each
of the following topics:
· Mobile
Phone
· E-mail
· Female
Education
· Global
Warming
· A
Village Market
· Tree
Plantation
· Distance
Learning
· Drug
Addiction
·
Friendship
· Gender
Discrimination
· Internet
·
Social Violence
· Global
Warming
· Freedom
of Speech
· Punctuality.
· Charity
· Facebook
· Tension
· Student
Politics
· Acid
Throwing
· Globalization
·
Good Manners
· Self-Reliance
· A
Rainy Day
· Corruption
· Road
Accident
· Patriotism
· Your Department
· Study
of Science
·
Computer
· My
Mother
· Truthfulness
· Climate
Change
· Load
Shedding
· Study
Tour
· Winter
Morning
· Mobile
Linkers/Connectors
1. What are linkers? Give a list
of linkers in cause and effect writing.
2. Give a list of sentence linkers
or connectors used to write coherent paragraphs.
3. What linkers are usually used in a comparison paragraph?
4. Give a list of sentence linkers
used to write a contrast paragraph.
Essay
1. Give a brief description of the three basic parts of an essay?
2. Write a good introduction for
the essay titled, Hazards of Fomalin
Contamination in Foods.
3. Write an effective introduction
of an essay in five sentences on the topic, Gender
Disparity.
3. What is an essay? How is a
descriptive essay different from narrative one?
4. What is an argumentative essay?
5. What are the functions of an argumentative
essay?
6. What are
the differences between the thesis statement and the topic sentence?
7. How is an essay different from a short story?
8. What is an essay? How is an expository essay different from a
narrative essay?
Report
1. What is a report? Name the parts of a news
report.
2. What is a
report? What does a reporter enquire in writing a news report?
3.
What are the elements of a long report?
4.
Differentiate between a lead sentence and a topic sentence.
5.
Write a short note on news report?
6. Give the format of a report.
7. What is a business report?
Letter/Application
1. What is cover letter? How many
categories does a cover letter have?
2. How many parts are there in a formal letter?
3. Write down the structure of a formal letter.
4. What are the qualities of a good business letter?
5. Define an
official letter. Write down the essential elements of an official letter.
6. What do you mean by formal letter and informal letter?
7. Write down the structure an informal letter?
8.
Distinguish between formal and informal letter.
9. Explain
with examples the differences between formal and informal writing.
10. What are the differences between job application letters and
office offer letters?
CV, Resume, Bio-data
1. What are the elements of a CV?
2. What is CV? Write down the format of a CV?
3. Show the difference between resume and CV.
4. How is a Bio-data different from a Resume?
Minutes
1. What are minutes?
2. Write about the importance of the minutes.
3. Show the differences between press release and minutes?
Notice
1. How are notices designed?
2.
What are the differences between a memo and a notice?
3.
What are the characteristics of a notice?
Notes/Briefing Notes
1. What do
you know about briefing note?
2.
What are the characteristics of a good briefing note?
Memo
1. Show why and where memos used.
Press Release
1. Show how a press release is
usually written.
PART-C:
1. Write a paragraph on:
(i) Importance of Reading Good Books
(ii) Load-shedding
(iii) Eve-teasing
(iv) Price Spiral
Or
Price Hike
(v) Love
(vi) Internet
(vii) Social Violence
(viii) Life Without a Computer Today
(ix) Abuses of Mobile Phone
(x) Good Manners
(xi) Study of English Literature
(xii) Patriotism
(xiii) Cyber Crime
2. Write an essay on:
(i) The Celebration of Pohela Boishakh
(ii) Digital Bangladesh
(iii) Cricket in Bangladesh
(iv) A Memorable Journey
(v) ICT-based Education
(vi)
Responsibilities of Media
(vii)
Pleasures of Reading Literature
(viii)
Empowerment of Women
(xi)
Problems in Higher Education in Bangladesh
3. Report
Writing
(i) Suppose, you are a staff correspondent of an English national
daily. Now, write a report of a lift-accident in a crowded shopping mall in
your area.
(ii) Suppose, you are a
staff correspondent to an English daily. Now, write a news report on the
increase of anti-social activities in your locality.
(iii) Write a report on the kidnapping of a
baby.
(iv) Write a report on
the celebration of the annual prize-giving ceremony in your college.
(v) Write a report on
celebrating of International Mother Language Day in your college.
(vi) A cultural week of your college has recently been held. Now, write
a report for the press.
(vii) You have gone to a village which is often visited by floods. The
villagers live a miserable life in acute poverty but they do not blame anybody.
Now, write a report for the press on the basis of your observation.
(viii) The prices of essential commodities are not decreasing. You are
concerned about the fact. Now, write a report about this.
(ix) Suppose, you are a
staff reporter of an English national daily. Now, write a report on the sudden
inundation of the roads of Dhaka city.
4. Letter Writing
(i) Write a letter to the manager of a commercial bank for a loan.
(ii) You have bought a TV set from Singer Bangladesh a few days ago.
Now it is not working properly. Write a letter to the Manager of Singer
Bangladesh complaining about the set.
(iii) Write a letter to your friend inviting
him to attend your sister’s marriage ceremony.
(iv) Write a letter to your younger brother/sister advising him/her on the importance of having good friends.
(v) Write a letter to your younger brother about the good and bad
sides of using internet.
(vi) Write a letter to your younger brother advising to read daily
newspaper and listen to the news as well.
(vii) Write a letter to your father describing your experience of hostel
life.
(viii) Think you are a secretary
of a sports club. Now , write a letter to the sports goods manufacturing
company named “Super Sports, Bogra” ordering some sports goods.
5. Application Writing
(i) Write a job
application for the post of a lecturer in English.
(ii) Suppose, you are going to apply for the post of a Junior Officer in a reputed bank. Now, write an application to the General Manager of the
bank along with your recent CV.
(iii) Write an application to the principal of your college seeking
permission to organize a blood donation camp in the college campus.
(iv) Write an application to the principal of your college requesting
him to equip your classroom with mult-media facilities.
(v) Write an application to the head of
your department seeking permission to celebrate the birthday of William
Shakespeare in your department.
(vi) Write an application to your principal
to enhance facilities on your college campus.
(vii) Write an application to the Chairman of the Department of English
of your college to arrange an English debate competition.
(viii) Write an application to the principal of your college requesting
permission to hold a debate competition on “Gender Discrimination”.
(ix) Write an application
to the principal of your college for arranging sufficient electric fans for the
classroom.
6. Notice
(i) Write a notice as a course co-ordinator informing
the students about the schedule
of their in-course exams.
(ii) Suppose, you are a principal. Now,
write a notice informing the students of
the suspension of classes for holding the Final Year Examination.
(iii) Ekushey February, the International Mother Language Day will be
observed in your college with due solemnity.
Suppose, you are the principal of the college. Now, write a notice.
(iv) Think, you are the principal of a college. One of your teachers
died by an accident. Now, write a notice for a condolence meeting in this case
to mourn his death.
(v) Suppose, you are a principal. Now, write a notice informing the
students of the celebration of the Victory Day in your college.
(vi) Write a notice informing the
students of starting Honours First Year Test Examination.
(vii) Imagine yourself to
be a principal of a college. Now, write a notice for the students to attend the
programmes on the National Mourning Day.
7. Memo
(i) Suppose, you are an MD of a
multi-national company. Some of the officials are not regular in their duties.
Now, write a memo asking them to be punctual.
(ii) Suppose, you are the director of a company.
Now, write a memo to all your staffs to work for extra hours before Eid-
holiday.
(iii) Write a memo to your staff to ensure
not to leave the office before 5 p.m.
(v) Write a memo of
farewell to one of your colleagues.
8. Press Release
(i) The
International Mother Language Day was observed with due festivity in your
college. Now, write a press release on the celebration.
(ii) Victory
Day was observed in your college. Now, write a press release on the programme.
(iii) Think, you are the convenor of a District Women’s Association.
Now, write a press release about the observance of the World Women’s Day.
(iv) ‘Inter-College Science Fair’ was held
in your college. Now, write a press
release on the programme.
(v) ‘Campus cleanliness’ programme was
held in your college. Now, write a press release on the the programme.
(vi) ‘Short Computer Course’ started in
your college. Now, write a news release on the the programme.
A-1-006/2018
English
Subject Code
: 211103
(English
Writing Skills)
Time–4 hours
Full marks–80
[N.B. – The
figures in the right margin indicate full marks.]
Part A
(Answer any ten questions)
Marks - 1×10=10
1. (a) What is the topic sentence of a paragraph?
(b) What purpose does the first paragraph of an essay serve?
(c) What is skimming?
(d) Define cohesion in writing?
(e) What is a ‘file’?
(f)
What is academic CV?
(g)
What is cover letter?
(h)
Give the definition of a press release.
(i)
What is the aim of a notice?
(j)
What linkers are used in contrast paragraph?
(k)
What is the developer of a paragraph?
(l)
What is a newspaper report?
Part B
(Answer any five questions)
Marks - 4×5=20
2. What are the different parts of
a well-organized paragraph?
3. Show the distinction between a
comparasion paragraph and a contrast paragraph. What are the differences
between job application letters and office
4. What is a listing paragraph?
5. What are the difference between
a formal letter and an informal letter?
6. Write a topic sentence for each
of the following topics:-
(a)
Dowry system;
(b)
Man and beast;
(c)
Corruption;
(d) A house on fire.
7. What are the essential parts of
a standard business letter?
8. What do you know about notes?
9. Define an objective essay. How
is it different from a subjective one?
Part C
(Answer any ten questions)
Marks - 10×5=50
10. Write a paragraph on Hazards of city life.
11. Write an essay on Moral
Education.
12. You have recently bought an iphone of the latest model from a
local showroom. During the warranty period, it is not functioning well. Now,
write a letter of complaint to the manager of the showroom about it.
13. Imagine yourself to be a job-seeker. Now write an application
to the manager of an NGO for the post of a field worker with CV.
14. Write an application to the principal of your college for
enhancing the facilities of the college library.
15. Suppose, you are the Head of the department of English of a
college. Write a letter to the manager of Friends’ Book Corner, Nilkhet, Dhaka,
ordering some books for the seminar library.
16.Imagine that you are the
principal of a college. Now, write a notice for the students and the teachers
to duly join the rally of Pahela Boishakh from the campus with traditional
colours and festoons.
17. Think, you are the convenor of
a District Women’s Association. Now, write a press release about the observance
of the World Women’s Day.
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