GENERAL OBJECTIVES / PERFORMANCE OBJECTIVES

 

1.0 Understand Registers

REGISTER

1.1 Explain Registers

1.2 Explain factors influencing register, viz, field (profession), mode (speech or writing), tenor (relationship between the interacting parties).

1.3 List some items of register peculiar to different professions.

1.4 Identify items of register in a given passage.

1.5 State appropriate uses of jargon.

 

2.0 Understand the principle of correspondence

 

CORRESPONDENCE

2.1 Describe different types of business letters e.g., applications, inquiries, invitations, and complaints.

2.2 Use suitable language for a specific type of letter.

2.3Write the letters listed in 2.1 above.

 

3.0 Know how to apply the principle of writing for publication.

 

WRITING FOR PUBLICATION

3.1 Explain techniques of writing for publication.

3.2 Write Essays on topical and current issues.

3.3 Analyze published essays of literary value.

3.4 Evaluate the development of ideas in a given article.

3.5 Write good articles for publication.

 

4.0 Know how to write a report.

REPORTS

4.1 Define a report.

4.2 List the types of reports.

4.3 Enumerate uses of reports.

4.4 List the characteristics of a good report.

4.5 Outline the stages of writing a report.

4.6 Evaluate a given report.