Friday, March 28, 2014

2nd Yr. qs on Advanced Reading and Writing:

1.       Go through the following text to recognize it with a topic sentence and supportive sentences. Add transitional words and combine sentences to  develop the text into a coherence one:

Where there are humans there are languages. No nation exists in the world without its own language. In addition, every language on earth appears to be very old very capable of expressing almost anything its speakers may need or want to say. It is still impossible to be certain about when and how man first began to speak. But scientists believe that language is almost as old man himself. Writing, by comparison, is a new invention, only about 5000 years old. Even now a large number of languages and dialects have no system of writing. And in every nation there are people who can neither read nor write their language. In the human family language is universal, but writing is not. Yet without writing man is cut off from nearly all knowledge of his own past. History begins with the invention of writing. Writing removes the barrier of time and space. If language is as old as man, writing seems to be as old as civilized man. That is, though language is primarily speech, its system of writing is indispensable to civilization.

2.       Discuss how subject, purpose and audience determine form style and author’s voice in writing.

a)      On the following topics:
I) Political situation in Bangladesh     ii) Your future plan                 iii) Nature in poetry
b) To the following audience:
        i)    Consultant readers ii) The average readers iii) Your friend
        c) With the following purpose:
        i) To inform your audience about something ii) To persuade your audience about your point of view                          iii) To explain something to your audience


M.H

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