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English: a colonial legacy or relic?
We have always adopted an oxymoronic attitude towards English
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Building blocks of writing
Panacea is to build writing habit in students that can be achieved first by making them feel comfortable as writers
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Survival of the unfittest
Theory had caused existential and religious crises in Victorian England
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To study literature is a different phenomenon
Students of English language, literature have to keep themselves abreast of all current, old literary movements
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Writing: an acquired skill
One way of self-actualisation is to create, which is absolutely a godly act
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Likulli maqāmin maqālun
Every word has two semantic layers: denotation and connotation
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Anatomy of paragraph writing
Paragraph is a metaphoric sandwich: two pieces of bread
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Dynamics of sentence formation
We access this knowledge of language usage through (unconscious) acquisition or (conscious) learning
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Let’s write
Reading and writing must also waltz in tango to produce a beautiful piece of writing
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English: a CSS gatekeeper
After 16 years of education, students think of attempting Competitive Examinations (CE) particularly for CSS