EOC Syllabus: End Semester Exam

HAS- 111  ESSENTIALS OF COMMUNICATION

 B. Tech.I/ II Semester

 

No. of Credits: 4                                                         Sessional:                    40 Marks

L  T   P   Total                                                             Theory :                       60 Marks

4   0   0    4                                                                 Total    :                       100 Marks      

Duration of Exam:      3 Hours

 

UNIT-I-LITERATURE

Science fiction ‘Reason’; The Discovery by Herman Ould; ‘Three Questions’ by Leo Tolstoy; ‘Metamorphosis’ by Franz Kafka; Excerpt from ‘Gitanjali’

 

UNIT-II-SEMANTICS AND SYNTAX

Words often Confused; Synonyms and Antonyms; One–word Substitutes; Homophones And Homonyms; Idioms; Correct the sentences

 

UNIT-III- COMPOSITION/WRITING:

Paragraph; Case Study; Reports; Dialogue; Creative/Analytical Writing; Unseen Passage; Précis

 

UNIT-IV-PHONETICS

IPA, Transcription, Use of Phonetic Dictionary, Definitions of Vowels, Consonants

 

UNIT-V- INTERNAL ASSESSMENT:

Newspaper scrap book/Case Study of any great engineering enterprise; Group Discussion; Debate/Declamation

 

Text Book:

1. Selection of stories from I, Robot by Issac Asimov. HarperCollins. 1996

2. Notes/Masterial provided by the teacher

3. Bande Usha and Krishan Gopal ed. The Pointed Vision: An Anthology of Short Stories. Oxford UP:

4. Kadyan Asha ed. Chronicles of Time: An Anthology of Poems: Oxford UP.2004.

5. Kafka, Franz. Metamorphosis and Other Stories. Penguin.

 

 

Reference Books:

1. Communication English. ESuresh Kumar, P Sreehari (University College of

Engineering,Hyderabad) Orient Longman,2007.

2. Cambridge Phonetic Dictionary CDs(I-IV)
3. Oxford Idioms Dictionary for Learners of English. Oxford University Press.2001
4. Oxford Paperback Dictionary and Thesaurus & Wordpower Guide. Oxford

University Press.2001