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, 1. INTRODUCTION: Confusion is always seen between the students' and the teachers' communities i... more , 1. INTRODUCTION: Confusion is always seen between the students' and the teachers' communities in relation to the grading and evaluation of a written script. Most students fail to reach the teacher's expectations whenever they have to write assignments, exams or any other kind of writing practices that require evaluation. If a student is asked to write a paragraph on a certain topic under essay writing competition, the student writes to his ability by concentrating only on the content but the teacher gives him less grade contrary to his expectations. Here the teacher's expectations from the text are crucial; unfortunately, those expectations are indefinite to the student. Thus the student gets a less grade after the evaluation of his script. While writing the script the student concentrates on the content and neglects the structure, grammar and other elements of a text but the teacher expects those aspects besides the content in the text. This confusion results in disappointment in the minds of the learners. This type of traditional evaluation of students' writing skills is a subjective practice of evaluation and makes the students confused. The feedback which is given to the learners often reveals what they failed to do, instead of what they did well in the text that is presented for evaluation (Townsend, Fu, & Lamme, 1997). There must be a bridge between the teachers' expectations and the students' presentation of ideas in relation to writing and evaluating an assignment, an exam or any other written script. Rubrics are used to help the students write any script reaching out to the evaluator's expectations. It also helps the learner know what is important in a written script. 2. RUBRICS: A rubric is a guide consisting of a list of specific principles for grading or evaluating or scoring academic assignments (Merriam-Webster). Rubrics are basically designed as a matrix that carries presentation levels and broad criteria in horizontal and vertical axes. Each cell in the matrix gives a particular description of the criteria. Generally, a customary rubric contains a point-based scale of assessment of the text. High scores are given to the best presentation of the text that carries the expectations of the evaluator. The top scores are 4, 5, or 6 and the lowest scores are 0 or 1. The teacher has to clearly specify what is required at each level of the presentation of the data in a rubric through simple and apparent language. When the student presents his opinion, explanation or the idea by following the rubrics, the teacher gives scores for the performance level (Jochum, Curran, & Reetz, 1998). The construction of rubrics can be characterized to be holistic or analytical, based on the varied approaches that are followed by the evaluator. A rubric can be built on the task from the perception of describing the essential aspects of the text (Huba and Freed, 2000; Arter and McTighe, 2001). A rubric designer can approach the task with a clear initiative of the preferred students' learning outcomes not even considering the recommended approach of creating a rubric (Luft,1999) and importantly it should have a clear picture of what meeting each outcome looks like. If this picture

Point of view is a much discussed and rigorously explored area in fiction studies, whether in the... more Point of view is a much discussed and rigorously explored area in fiction studies, whether in the stylistics frame work or any other frame works of literary criticism and theory. Point of view basically refers to the way a story is told, the mode of its narration. As the discussion above would have indicated, point of view is not simply about modes of narration. Point of view concerns, produces, results in, perspectives on, evaluations of, events and characters. Point of view is about influencing readers to form certain opinions, or not to form certain opinions. Quite often, however, the author may not simply let the characters speak for themselves or for other characters. The author may intervene and influence the reader in a number of ways. Point of view helps the author intervene with the character and also helps distance himself from the character. The author uses the point of view and the mode of narration according to his convenience. So it helps readers understand the writer&...

Among the four basic communication skills of the English language, writing is looked like an incr... more Among the four basic communication skills of the English language, writing is looked like an incredibly challenging one to execute. Since writing is considered as a very formal mode of communication it demands perfection. A written composition should not only lucid in its message but also ideal in its construction. Any discrepancy in construction can lead to an ambiguity in the perception of the read message. Learners during their academic atmosphere look writing as a just tool through which they present their subjects in the exams. They do not consider writing a very important and inevitable weapon to lead the professional world. Learners often grumble on their own writing abilities, sometimes they complain against themselves and sometimes on their backgrounds, teachers, and academics. No matter what reason a person has for his bad writing ability but the problems in writing will undoubtedly cause a great damage to their success in production of ideas or information. This paper focuses on the most common problems in writing that the learners often show in their written composition and some effective strategies to be introduced to achieve perfection in writing of ESL learners.

Discourse is a perspective on social life that contains both methodological and conceptual elemen... more Discourse is a perspective on social life that contains both methodological and conceptual elements. Discourse means a combination of sentences and defined in terms of its application breaking up of the text into its fundamental elements or component parts; in order to understand discourse, it must achieve Conversation Analysis. Conversation is one of the most prevalent uses of human language. All human beings engage in conversational interaction and human society on conversation in order to function. CA is analysis of real world, situated, contextualized talk. The purpose of this paper is to define and describe Conversation Analysis of short story based on the work of Halliday and Hasan (1976). It also emphasizes the necessity of using cohesive devices like grammatical and lexical cohesion in linguistic analysis of R. K. Narayan's short story "Father's Help". The study noticed that the most grammatical and lexical devices used are references, conjunctions, and synonyms etc.

Discourse analysis is a primarily linguistic study examining the use of language by its native po... more Discourse analysis is a primarily linguistic study examining the use of language by its native population whose major concern is investigating language functions along with its forms, produced both orally and in writing. A major area of study in the analysis of discourse is conversation analysis. Conversation analysis looks at ordinary everyday spoken discourse and aims to understand, from a fine-grained analysis of the conversation, how people manage their interactions. It also looks at how social relations are developed through the use of spoken discourse. The aim of this paper is to explain Conversation Analysis of R. K. Narayan's short story Fellow-Feeling based on the model of Halliday and Hasan (1976). It also focuses the necessity of cohesion in the linguistic analysis of a text. The study has identified that the most grammatical and lexical devices used are references, conjunctions and synonyms etc.

important novels and award winning works of science fiction. Ghosh is well known for his interest... more important novels and award winning works of science fiction. Ghosh is well known for his interest in the Indian colonial history and the contribution of the English language in the postcolonial world. In The Calcutta Chromosome he points towards an "alternative" history that makes me interested to work on this book. Ghosh's writing style is very much inspired by the other Bengali Indian writers such as Rabindranath Tagore or Phanishwar Nath Renu. His childhood was spent in Calcutta and his representation of the geographical picture of Calcutta in the novel The Calcutta Chromosome is also influenced by his personal experiences. The Calcutta Chromosome is known as his famous "postcolonial" work of science fiction. This novel contains the idea of "alternative" history which is about "subaltern" people and of course a history of Ronald Ross, the famous doctor and Nobel Prize winner for his discovery about malaria transmission. The novel is mostly centered on the "subaltern" people, their silence and their history.

The brawl existing between religion, caste, creed, and sex has been prevalent from ages for supre... more The brawl existing between religion, caste, creed, and sex has been prevalent from ages for supremacy and domination. The dispute of prejudice and the self-reflexive neutrality of the fraught and repressed sections of society is because of maltreatment and provocation origin from the persistently unstable the breakers and streams of principal understanding among the inspecting classes. The sudden wake up of power realization among the common subjects of society has led to the transformation of the complete array of the communal edict. In relation to this, the writers who found compatible enough to bring out the works with the modern mystical concept of denial of conservative obedience to the leading classes of society has increased and they found to hold a mirror for societal reflection in their writings. This resulted in an enormous production of writings with innovative ideas that had the core concept connected to the revolution of fierceness and displacement. This variation gave wings to the highbrows to decode the agony of the subalterns to look into the new dimensions, almost as inclusive notion which became a persistent intention in civilizations as well as people devastated by stark up heals. The sense of concern for conflict has never been answered by any, as it wasn't that prominent person to bring an end to this struggle to hold upper-hand. The brighter approach has been the acknowledgment given to those colonial subjects who tried to prove their mettle through their intellectual afford in the vertical placement of hierarchy in a social order

Bi/multilingualism has become the mode of the communication for many people in this modern world.... more Bi/multilingualism has become the mode of the communication for many people in this modern world. Numerous languages are used by different speech communities. One feature of bi/multilingual societies is that the speakers have a tendency to be acquainted with two or more languages. In India also exist in a bilingual contact situation typically has the tendency to use two or more languages when they communicate with others along with their mother tongue. Code-mixing is known to be the mixing of the codes by the speakers while they use different languages, and it is used as a linguistic device during their communication. The present effort aimed at exploring the features of code-mixed Telugu and English among college students in Andhra Pradesh.

Sashi Deshpande is an awarding author for her realistic depiction of the life direction of women ... more Sashi Deshpande is an awarding author for her realistic depiction of the life direction of women in the society. She became popular as an Indian female storyteller in English with the readership of her first novel, The Dark Holds No Terrors, released in 1980. Her novels are written documentation her first hand observations and occurrences of the life of enlightened middle-class Indian women, takes advantage of animals, captured in the maze of Indian patriarchal hierarchy with its issues such as gender politics, a patriarchal syndrome to the woman and strangely stretched and oppressive marriage relationships. Deshpande, an Indian feminist, whose stories are rooted in Indian soil and context, is not pleased with a pathetic and terrible lot of middle-class Indian women.

Code-switching is a generally observed phenomenon in a bi/multilingual communication during the s... more Code-switching is a generally observed phenomenon in a bi/multilingual communication during the same conversation. It is a process of shifting from one language to another language. It is prevalent in informal situations where the conversations are among friends, family members, and associates. In India, code-switching (CS) among bi/multilingual speakers is prevalent. Telugu speakers are not an omission so they regularly switch codes from English to Telugu, Telugu to English utterances too. This paper aims to examine code switching behavior of Telugu speakers and the types of CS used by the Acharya Nagarjuna University (ANU) students'. The investigator collected the 45-minutes informal conversational data to achieve the objectives of the study. The results of the study show that (ANU) students used three types of CS frequently in their day to day conversation.

Contemporary literature has been transformed by the rising tide of globalization. Literature is n... more Contemporary literature has been transformed by the rising tide of globalization. Literature is now crossing borders of nations and cultures as newly emerging writers express myriad voices of those once considered subalterns. In the arena of literature, Diaspora writing has gradually emerged as one of the major areas especially in the field of Indian Writings in English by giving expression to various Diaspora experiences and issues. Parsi Diasporic Writers pour out their experiences of Identity Crisis, Dislocation, Hybridity, Loss of self, Cultural and Ethnic Consciousness, Indianness and so on. Boman Desai is an Indo-American Diasporic Parsi Writer in English, who established himself as one of America's most critically acclaimed writers, with his writings. His works are suggestive of his concern for the downtrodden state of women who are exploited in

Sociolinguistics is the study of the effect of any and all aspects of society, including cultural... more Sociolinguistics is the study of the effect of any and all aspects of society, including cultural norms, expectations, and context, on the way language is used. Sociolinguistics differs from sociology of language. The focus of sociolinguistics is the effect of the society on the language, while the latter's focus is on the effect of the language on the society. A common phenomenon in bilingual /multilingual societies is Code-switching/Code-mixing across the languages in contact. Linguists have stated many a time that there exists a neat compartmentalization of languages in the Indian multilingual contexts but now the urban Indian sociolinguistic scene is fast changing, especially after the advent of multiple TV channels, FM radios, and Internet etc. All this lexical borrowing is giving rise to extensive code-mixing and code-switching. Code-mixing and Code-switching is a well-accepted phenomenon in Indian societies. Most of the Advertisements use Code-Switching and Code-Mixing to attract customers and to increase turnover. In this context the researcher attempts a sociolinguistic description of language contact instances such as code-mixing and code-switching, between English and Telugu/Hindi in the bi/multilingual, multicultural advertisements.

Point of view" is a much discussed and rigorously explored area in fiction studies, whether in th... more Point of view" is a much discussed and rigorously explored area in fiction studies, whether in the stylistics framework or any other framework of literary criticism and theory. Point of view basically refers to the way a story is told, the mode of its narration. Point of view concerns, produces, results in, perspectives on, evaluations of, events and characters. It is about influencing readers to form certain opinions, or not to form certain opinions. This paper is concerned with the analysis of "point of view" in Khushwant Singh's short story 'The Mark of Vishnu.' It makes an attempt to investigate how Khushwant Singh achieves his spatio-temporal, ideological and psychological perspectives through his language. He continuously interferes with the comprehension of the readers by guiding them in terms of locating the places and time through his spatio-temporal perspective. He also influences the feelings of the readers by communicating his ideas through his psychological perspective. He also presents the mindset of his characters by describing the commonly accepted social practices in the society through his ideological perspective. Point of view on spatio-temporal, ideological and psychological planes helps the narrator achieve his purpose effectively.

The narrator would be able to make the readers understand the characters and their psychology in ... more The narrator would be able to make the readers understand the characters and their psychology in a better way through the use of one of the distinct stylistic parameters i.e. "speech and thought presentation." He continuously interferes with the comprehension of the readers by guiding them in terms of narrating the events from his perspective. He also influences the feelings of the readers by communicating his ideas through a particular mode of narration. To achieve the desired response from the reader, the author has many models of presentation of a character's talk at his disposal. And, the choice of the modes of speech and thought presentations has received sustained investigation from stylisticians. Therefore, this paper is concerned with the "modes of narration" in Khushwant Singh's short story 'Karma'. It makes an attempt to investigate how Khushwant Singh achieves his purpose through his language by applying Mick Short Model. In this story, the narrator, Khushwant Singh, presents most of Sir Mohan Lal's, the main character, dialogues in FIS to achieve the irony where as NRA is used to narrate the unnecessary stretches of conversations of Sir Mohan Lal and his wife Lachmi. The dialogues of two English soldiers and Sir Mohan Lal in the train are deliberately put in FDS to create some confusion in the readers. FIT is used to make the readers directly get into the mind of Sir Mohan Lal and promptly K. RATNA SHIELA MANI & N. MADHU 40 understand his emotions and feelings. On the whole, this paper succinctly gives a description of the narrator's effective "use" and "effect" of the modes to express the characters' speeches and thoughts according to his purpose.

Journal of English Language and Literature

A brief survey of Indian Short Fiction in English indicates that there is a wide scope for its st... more A brief survey of Indian Short Fiction in English indicates that there is a wide scope for its study. Manoj Das has presented a serene and simple way of life of rural community in India in his fiction which is rapidly disappearing. He is one of the foremost short story writers in Post-Independent India and an outstanding bilingual writer both in English and Oriya at ease. He depicts very effectively and skillfully the way of life of people living in villages, their values, norms, beliefs, attitudes, traditions, customs, superstitions, religion, etc., in his stories. He is a keen observer of the changing socio-political and cultural scenario in the post independent India. The stories of Manoj Das are so subtle and suggestive that they have a concealed element of didacticism, a zeal for social reform as he is keenly interested in fostering and promoting the qualitative life of the rural people of India. Hence, in this paper I presented my views and opinions from Indian perspective kee...

Asian journal of multidisciplinary studies, 2016

The novel, Seven Summers is the first in the series of Mulk Raj Anand’s seven volume work, The Se... more The novel, Seven Summers is the first in the series of Mulk Raj Anand’s seven volume work, The Seven Ages of Man. Anand introduces his child hero, Krishan Chander, who is only a thinly disguised fictional presentation of Anand himself, and most of his experiences belong to his creator. Seven summers is invaluable in the study of the influences that shaped Anand’s mind and made him the writer and the man he is. His parents and their attitudes influenced him strongly, and his portrait of his family is candid and exact. It is a brilliant novel on childhood. In Seven Summers he dramatizes his own experiences and presents an intense soul searching account of his real life. Krishan Chander is the protagonist of the novel and his early perceptions and impressions form the palpable substance of the story. The novel purportedly deals with the life of krishan in his formative years. The central motif of the novel lies in the exploration of the theme of “innocence” and experience. This novel i...

IJDL. International journal of Dravidian linguistics, 1998

L'A. examine les erreurs commises dans l'utilisation des prepositions anglaises par des e... more L'A. examine les erreurs commises dans l'utilisation des prepositions anglaises par des etudiants parlant le telougou et consideres comme etant a un stade avance dans leur apprentissage de l'anglais. Ces erreurs peuvent etre divisees en 4 categories : a) omission de prepositions, b) utilisation de prepositions superflues, c) mauvais choix de preposition, d) divers. En ce qui concerne les sources de ces erreurs, les resultats indiquent l'interference de deux types de facteurs : des facteurs intralinguaux, dus a la nature abstraite et complexe des relations exprimees par les prepositions en anglais, et des facteurs interlinguaux, dus aux differences dans le systeme positionnel des deux langues (systeme prepositionnel et anglais et systeme postpositionnel en telougou)

L'A. decrit les simplifications lexicales que des etudiants parlant le telougou et apprenant ... more L'A. decrit les simplifications lexicales que des etudiants parlant le telougou et apprenant l'anglais ont produites afin d'exprimer certains sens tout en evitant certains items lexicaux. Il analyse pour cela de nombreux exemples contenant ce type d'erreur lexicale et tente d'identifier la strategie de communication a l'origine de ces simplifications, a savoir transfert et/ou surgeneralisation

The novel, Seven Summers is the first in the series of Mulk Raj Anand‟s seven volume work, The Se... more The novel, Seven Summers is the first in the series of Mulk Raj Anand‟s seven volume work, The Seven Ages of Man. Anand introduces his child hero, Krishan Chander, who is only a thinly disguised fictional presentation of Anand himself, and most of his experiences belong to his creator.Seven summers is invaluable in the study of the influences that shaped Anand‟s mind and made him the writer and the man he is. His parents and their attitudes influenced him strongly, and his portrait of his family is candid and exact. It is a brilliant novel on childhood. In Seven Summers he dramatizes his own experiences and presents an intense soul searching account of his real life. Krishan Chander is the protagonist of the novel and his early perceptions and impressions form the palpable substance of the story. The novel purportedly deals with the life of krishan in his formative years. The central motif of the novel lies in the exploration of the theme of “innocence” and experience. This novel is...

CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research - Zenodo, Apr 30, 2021

Journal of English Language and Literature

Asian journal of multidisciplinary studies, 2016

IJDL. International journal of Dravidian linguistics, 1998

Amitav Ghosh, a Bengali Indian Author is mostly known for his award winning novels. The Glass Pal... more Amitav Ghosh, a Bengali Indian Author is mostly known for his award winning novels. The Glass Palace, The Shadow Lines, Sea of Poppies, In An Antique Land, and The Hungry Tide. The Calcutta Chromosome is one of his important novels and award winning works of science fiction. Ghosh is well known for his interest in the Indian colonial history and the contribution of the English language in the postcolonial world. In The Calcutta Chromosome he points towards an "alternative" history that makes me interested to work on this book. Ghosh's writing style is very much inspired by the other Bengali Indian writers such as Rabindranath Tagore or Phanishwar Nath Renu.