INDIRA GANDHI NATIONAL OPEN UNIVERSITY
School of Humanities
SOH/AFW(E) 2009
May 06, 2009
Please find herewith assignment of the following courses:
1. British Poetry (MEG-01)
2. Literary Criticism and Theory (MEG-05)
3. Understanding Poetry (EEG-06)
4. Communication Skills in English (EEG-03)
5. Feature Writing (English) AFW
I would especially like to emphasize that the letter to the student giving the assignment of MEG-01 must be put on our website and also sent to the students along with all other assignments. Without the words of advice the students may feel lost with respect to the assignment on British Poetry.
Amiya Bhushan Sharma
Director (SOH)
Master’s Degree Programme
(MEG)
ASSIGNMENT
2009
British Poetry
(MEG 01)
School of Humanities
Indira Gandhi National Open University
Maidan Garhi, New Delhi – 110 068
MEG-01: BRITISH POETRY
ASSIGNMENT
(2009-10)
Max. Marks: 100
Programme: MEG
Assignment Code: MEG01/TMA/2009-10
Dear Student,
In a conventional class your teacher would have discussed your assignment with you, pointed out what made a good essay and what a bad one. We have done exactly the same thing in Unit 52 of the British Poetry (MEG01) course. Read it carefully and discuss it with your counsellor and class-fellows at the Study Centre. Thereafter decide upon a topic, i.e. a period or literary group in the history of British Poetry. You may, if you wish, select a topic from the list given in 52.2.1 (p.70).
Alternatively, you could write on a British poet of your choice. You may write on a poet discussed in the units, i.e. on the syllabus, or even a poet we have not discussed in detail such as Robert Burns, G.M. Hopkins, R.S. Thomas, Ted Hughes or Seamus Heaney. You may have heard some of our lectures on The Movement, Philip Larkin and Ted Hughes on the EduSat. It may now be available on e-gyankosh on ignou.ac.in
You have yet another choice. Write an essay on a famous poem in English literature.
Having decided upon your topic, do your research. Then read section 36.5 in Unit 36 in Block VIII for a model essay and a format for presentation. You should learn how to present your term paper/ sessional essay from 36.5. You must not quote from unacknowledged sources.
To sum up, write an essay on a period or literary group in British poetry, or a British poet or a British poem in about 3000 words on the model provided in 36.5 (in unit 36). The full marks for the essay is 100.
We look forward to reading your sessional essay.
Sincerely yours
Teacher
The first page of the assignments booklet should look like this:
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Submit the assignments to the Coordinator of your Study Centre.
Master’s Degree Programme
(MEG)
ASSIGNMENT
2009
Literary Criticism and Theory
(MEG – 05)
School of Humanities
Indira Gandhi National Open University
Maidan Garhi, New Delhi – 110 068
Literary Criticism and Theory
(MEG – 05)
ASSIGNMENT
Programme: MEG
Course Code: MEG-05
Dear Student,
You have just one assignment for the Literary Criticism and Theory (EEG-05) course. It carries 100 marks.
The TMA is concerned mainly with assessing your application and understanding of the course material. You are not required to reproduce chunks of information from the course material but to use the skills of critical appreciation that you may acquire during the course of your study. This assignment aims to assess your performance as well as to assess it. Please ensure that you read the essays and the accompanying study guides that we have prepared for you. You may need to read the essays more than once. Do make points as you go along. If there is anything you do not understand, please take the help of your friends and the Counsellor at the Study Centre. Once you are able to do the assignments satisfactorily, you will be ready to take the exam with confidence.
Instruction: Before attempting the assignment please read the following instructions carefully:
1) Read the detailed instructions on assignments given in the Programme Guide for the Elective Courses.
2) Write your enrolment number, name, full address and date on the top right-hand-corner of your answer sheet(s).
3) Write the Course Title, Assignment Number and the name of the Study Centre you are attached to in the center of the first page of your response sheet(s).
The first page of the assignments booklet should look like this:
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NAME: ……………………………………………
ADDRESS: ……………………………………….
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DATE: .………………………………………….
Course Title.…………………….
Assignment No………………….
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4) Use only foolscap size paper for your response and tag all the pages carefully.
5) Write the relevant question number with each answer.
6) You should write in your own handwriting.
7) Submission: The completed assignment should be sent to the Coordinator of the Study Centre allotted to you. Please read the information given in your Programme Guide. .
Now read the following guidelines carefully before answering the questions.
GUIDELINES FOR WRITING THE ASSIGNMENTS
You will find it useful to keep the following points in mind:
1. Planning: Read the assignment carefully. Go through the units on which they are based. Make some points regarding each question and then rearrange these in a logical order. Write the answers in your own words. Do not reproduce passages from the units.
2. Organisation: Be a little more selective and analytical before drawing up a rough outline of your answer. In an essay-type question, give adequate attention to your introduction and conclusion. The introduction must offer your brief interpretation of the question and how you propose to develop it. The conclusion must summarise your response to the question. In the course of your answer, you may like to make reference to other texts or critics as this will add some depth to your analysis.
Make sure that your answer:
a) is logical and coherent;
b) has clear connections between sentences and paragraphs;
c) is written correctly, giving adequate consideration to your expression, style and presentation;
d) does not exceed the number of words indicated in your question.
You may be aware that you need to submit your assignments before you can appear for the Term End Exams. Submit your assignments and please remember to keep a copy of your completed assignment, just in case the one you submitted is lost in transit. Good luck with your work!
Literary Criticism and Theory
(MEG – 05)
ASSIGNMENT
Programme: MEG
Assignment Code: MEG-05/TMA/2009
Max. Marks (20 X 5): 100
Briefly state the main ideas in each of the the following essays (150 words) and then critically comment on them (350 words):
1. ‘Poetry and Unreality’ by Plato
2. ‘A Defence of Poetry’ by P.B. Shelley
3. ‘The Intentional Fallacy’ by W.K. Wimsatt and Monroe C. Beardsley.
4. ‘Feminist Criticism in the Wilderness’ by Elaine Showalter
5. ‘From Work to Text’ by Ronald Barthes
Bachelor’s Degree Programme
(BDP)
ASSIGNMENT
2009
Understanding Poetry
Elective Course in English – 06
School of Humanities
Indira Gandhi National Open University
Maidan Garhi, New Delhi – 110 068
Elective Course in English-VI (EEG-06)
Understanding Poetry
ASSIGNMENT
Programme: BDP
Course Code: EEG-06
Dear Student,
As we explained in the Programme Guide for Elective Courses, you will have only one assignment for the Elective Course in English Understanding Poetry (EEG-06). This is a Tutor Marked Assignment (TMA) and carries 100 marks.
Aims: The TMA is concerned mainly with assessing your application and understanding of the course material. You are not required to reproduce chunks of information from the course material but to use the skills of critical appreciation that you may acquire during the course of your study. This assignment aims to assess your performance as well as to teach.
Instruction: Before attempting the assignment please read the following instructions carefully:
7) Read the detailed instructions on assignments given in the Programme Guide for the Elective Courses.
8) Write your name, enrolment number, full address and date on the top right-hand-corner of your answer sheet(s).
9) Write the Course Title, Assignment Number and the name of the Study Centre you are attached to on the first page of your response sheet(s).
The first page of the assignments booklet should look like this:
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ENROLMENT NO.: ……………………………...
NAME: ……………………………………………
ADDRESS: ……………………………………….
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.……………………………………….
DATE: .………………………………………….
Course Title.…………………….
Assignment No………………….
Study Centre…………………….
10) Use only foolscap size paper for your response and tag all the pages carefully.
11) Write the relevant question number with each answer.
12) You should write in your own handwriting.
7) Submission: The completed assignment should be sent to the Coordinator of the Study Centre allotted to you. .
GUIDELINES FOR WRITING THE ASSIGNMENTS
You have only one assignment based on the course on poetry. Soon after you have read the relevant units do the assignment relevant to that/ those units. This will help you test and digest the material you have studied.
You are required to write basically three types of questions: a) scansion of 4 passages (24 marks), b) explanation of two passages with reference to their contexts (16 marks), and c) answers of 5 critical questions each in no more than 1000 words (60 marks).
In answering a question you must pay attention to the number of words you are expected to answer the question in. Answers that are either too long or too short are not liked by examiners. Through these assignments we wish to train you to be systematic.
You may benefit by organizing your ideas before writing out your answer. One of the simple ways of organizing an essay or a talk is to say what you are going to say, say it, and then say what you have said. Obviously the idea is to have a short introductory section to every essay type question to be succeeded by a fairly lengthy (5 to 7 paragraphs) discussion on the main points and to be summed up briefly in a concluding paragraph at the end. Try this method and see how it works.
Try to send a neat answer script to you study center. If necessary, prepare a fresh draft for submission. This will ensure that your Counsellor will be able to give you some guidelines for improvement.
Once you receive you Counsellor’s comments read them carefully and if possible discuss them with him/ her as well as your friends. Hope everything works out well and you find the work exciting and rewarding.
Elective Course in English-VI (EEG-06)
Understanding Poety
ASSIGNMENT
Programme: BDP
Assignment Code: EEG-06/TMA/2009
Max. Marks (20 X 5): 100
Answer 1 & 2 and any 3 of the remaining questions.
1. Scan the following passages and comment on their prosodic features:
(a) Touch her not scornfully
Think of her mournfully.
Gently and humanly;
Not of the remains of her
Now is pure womanly.
(b) Merrily merrily shall I live now
Under the Blossom that hangs on the bough.
(c) Thy way not mine, O Lord
However dark it be;
Lead me by thine own hand
Choose out the path for me.
(d) The Assyrian came down like a wolf on the fold
And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold;
And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea,
When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep galilee.
2. Explain any two of the following with reference to the context, supplying brief
critical comments of your own:
(a) Like a poet hidden
In the light of thought,
Singing hymns unbidden
Till the world is wrought
To sympathy with hopes and fears it heeded not.
(b) The Earth, sayest thou? The Human race?
By me created? Sad its lot?
May: I have no remembrance of such place:
Such world I fashioned not.
(c) Was he free? Was he happy? The question is absurd:
Had anything been wrong, we should certainly have heard.
(d) Our deeds were neither great nor rare.
Home is where we have to gather grace.
Answer any three of the following.
3. Write a note on Shakespeare’s sonnets with special reference to those prescribed for you.
4. ‘The Daffodils’ is remarkable for its accuracy of description. Would you agree? Give reasons for your answer
5. ‘To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield’ – to what extent does ‘Ulysses’ experess
the poet’s belief of facing life at all cost.
6. In ‘The Wild Swans at Coole’ Yeats presents a contrast between change and permanence. Show how the poet brings out this contrast.
7. Discuss Sarojini Naidu’s ‘Palanquin Bearer’ as a pageant of rhythmic movement.
8. Critically appreciate in your own words ‘The Raven’.
Bachelor’s Degree Programme
(BDP)
ASSIGNMENT
2009
Communication Skills in English
Elective Course in English – 03
School of Humanities
Indira Gandhi National Open University
Maidan Garhi, New Delhi – 110 068
Elective Course in English(EEG03)
Communication Skills in English
ASSIGNMENT
Programme: BDP
Assignment Code: EEG-03/TMA/2009
Max Marks: (20X5) = 100
Answer all the questions below:
1. a) Your organization wants its employees to participate in an orientation programme to gain
proficiency in Hindi. Write a circular to this effect.
b) What according to you are the qualities of a good memo? 20
2. Write a piece of conversation on phone between you and your friend who has invited you
for a dinner tonight. 20
3. Write a speech in favour of the motion ‘India should show Zero tolerance
towards the Terrorists’. 20
4. Adapt a popular nursery rhyme into a T.V. drama. 20
5. What according to you is the role of a camera in a documentary? 20