ASSIGNMENT BOOKLET
Assignment for Courses 1,2,3,4 and 5
ASSIGNMENT
2010-11
(For July 2010 and January 2011 sessions)
Diploma in Creative Writing in English
Dear Students,
We hope you are already familiar with the system of evaluation to be followed for the Diploma in
Creative Writing in English. At this stage you should read again the pages of the Programme
Guide that give the details of the evaluation procedure. A weightage of 30 per cent, as you are
aware, has been earmarked for Continuous Evaluation, which would consist of one assignment
per Course.
The Assignment booklet for Courses 1,2,3,4 and 5 is being sent herewith. It has a total of 5
assignments, of which 4 must be submitted by you. The assignment for Course 1 is compulsory
and every student must attempt this. You are required to do the assignments for only three
courses, out of DCE-2,3,4 and 5.
Following is the calendar for submission of assignments:
Course 1
Course 2
Course 3
Course 4
Course 5
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Last Date of Submission of Assignment :
For June Examination: 31" March 2011.
For December Examination: 30lhSeptember 2011.
All assignments must be submitted on or before the date set.
All assignments pertaining to any Course must be submitted in one batch. No placemeal
submission is acceptable.
In case you are not able to keep this deadline in the first year, say 2010, you should submit your
assignments in 201 1, 2012 or 2013 that is, you have a total of 1+3 years to submit your
assignments.
At the commencement of every academic year, your progress will be intimated and you will be
asked your plan of studies for that year. At this stage, please ask for the assignment Booklet of
that year, not for your year of enrolment. Irrespective of your year of enrolment, you do the
assignment in force for the year in which you submit it.
Do not plan to take the terminal examination for any course if you have not done the assignments
set for it first. You will not be permitted to do so.
Instructions for submitting your assignments
1.
You should attach a slip in the following format to the top of the relevant course
assignments
Course Title
Assignment No.
Enrolment No.
Date sent on
Name
Address
For Office Use
Grades:
Letter
Evaluated by
PLEASE FOLLOW THE ABOVE FORMAT STRICTLY TO FACILITATE EVALUATION
AND TO AVOID DELAY.
2.
The answer sheets should be complete in all respects. Make sure you have answered all
the questions in an assignment before you submit it.
3.
Use only foolscap size writing paper (but not of very thin variety), for writing your
answer.
4.
Leave 5 cm's margin on the left, top and bottom of your answer scripts so that comments,
if any, can be made.
5.
Start every assignment on a fresh sheet so that you can prepare separate sets for each
block.
6.
You should not sent printed articles as your answers to assignments.
7.
Please write ASSIGNMENT FOR DIPLOMA IN CREATlVE WRITING 1N ENGLISH
on top of the cover in which you send your answerJresponse sheets.
DCE-1
Assignment
(GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF WRITING)
Max. Marks, 100
Programme: DCE
Assignment Code: DCE 1ITMA-2010-2011
1.
What is the significance of in-depth knowledge of subject for a creative
writer? Does the reader seek information from a piece of creative writing?
You may cite examples to prove your point of view.
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2.
Why do you think diary-writing (though a personalized mode of expression)
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important for a creative writer?
3.
Write the opening lines of a story on a topic of your choice. Then, write
broadly the story line in a few sentences. 'Thereafter suggest two possible
endings for the story.
20
4.
Read the poem given below carehlly. Then answer the following questions.
Evening Landscape by the River
Jayanta Mahapatra
is the kind of sadness which closes the eyes.
' This
Here the memory for faces of the dead never
appears.
Fishermen's broken shacks by the river
let even starlight slip out
from their weak roofs.
A temple stands frail and still
in the distance, as though lost in reverie.
in a hut a six-month-old child awakes
and crawls across the dung-washed floor
not asking where he goes.
It is evening, there is light laughter,
and the abundant darkness of water
over which an uncertain light of the moon
lies like a familiar but useless ornament.
(a) What is the dominant mood of the poem?
(b) How does the poet suggest that the world has lost meaning?
5.
6.
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Write a dialogue between two persons using figurative language in about 250
word, then rewrite the dialogue in simple language.
10
Write a passage of 100 words that has grammatical and editing errors. Show
15
corrections and then write the corrected version.
DCE-2
Assignment
(FEATURE ARTICLES)
Max. Marks: 100
Programme: DCE
Assignment Code: DCE-2/TMA/2010-2011
I.
Write a feature article on a topic of your choice preferably on women or
children (1 000 words).
25
2.
What guidelines would you keep in mind while writing an unfavourable
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review which is fully justified and unbiased (500 words).
3.
What is the difference between a travel guide and a travelogue? Discuss
(500 words)
20
4.
Write short notes on any two of the following in about 250 words each
10 x2=
a) Book Fairs
b) Good interviews
c) Additional tools in features
5.
20
Prepare a questionnaire of 15-20 questions for interviewing a celebrity of
your choice.
15
DCE - 3
SHORT STORY
Max. Marks: 100
Programme: DCE
Assignment Code: DCE 3/TMA/1/2010-2011
1.
Picture speak louder than words. Take out a photograph from your album which you
feel conveys a story to you. (Attach the photograph-if you can afford to give it awayor take a photocopy and attach w t o your assignment.) Now write an open ended
story based on what is seen in your photograph. Let your imagination soar and invest
the story with either humour/pathos/emotions/adventure-orwhatever catches your
fancy.
25
2.
For this activity you will really have to let your creative juices flow. Write an
imaginary story for children describing one of the following:
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
3.
How the elephant got its trunk
How the leopard got its spots
How the zebra got its stripes
How the giraffe got its long neck
Potential sources for an idea for a short story may come from personal experie~iceor
from observing people and surroundings. Think of a personally experienced or
observed incident and write a short story for children on any one of the following
experiences:
a) Trapped in an elevator
b) Victim of a practical joke
c) In an old house, on a stormy night
You may make your story humorous,or sad depending on what you can handle better.
25
4.
You are walking in the park late in the evening. You are overtaken by two other
walkers and you briefly catch their conversation:
Walkerl: "When I pulled out the knife it was smeared with blood."
Walker 2: "Gosh, what did you do next?"
Walkerl: "What could I do? The only option was to
........."
Then the walkers overtake you and the conversation goes out of hearing range. Now
build up a detective story in which either you are walker 1 or you can be the
omnipresent narrator and write out the story. You could also imagine that you are a
detective and that you chase the two walkers and somehow find out the whole story.
25
DCE - 4
WRITING FOR MEDIA: RADIO AND TELEVISION
Max. Marks: 100
Programme: DCE
Assignment Code: DCE 41 TMA/1/2010-2011
Note:
We would like to see what you can handle better-humour or pathos? There are 4 questions in this
assignment. We would want you to give a humorous slant to any two of them and a tragic
foregrounding to the other two. (Remember, it is always possible to convey serious messages in a
lighter vein and visa versa.) So take some time and think about which two questions will be
treated in a funny/humorous/light -hearted manner. And which two will be taken up in a serious
way. Marks will definitely be awarded for creativity while maintaining credibility.
1.
Write a radio talk on any one of the following themes:
a)
Coping with stress.
b)
Problems of working mothers.
2.
Write a radio play revolving around any one of the following:
a)
My ideal place.
b)
Uninvited guests
How to get along with an enemy
C)
3.
Write a Public Service Announcement to be relayed over TV on any one of the following
topics. Suggest visuals, narration, sound effects and dialogues wherever required.
a)
Drunken driving
b)
Helping the under privileged.
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4.
Write a TV documentary for children (10-14 years) on "Value of Trees on our Life".
Indicate the visual inserts as well as SFX.
25
DEC - 5
Assignment
(WRITING POETRY)
Max. Marks: 100
Programme: DCE
Assignment Code: DCE5/ TMA.12010-2011
1.
If you were to write poetry on a theme, what would your choice be? Discuss
with examples.
20
2.
Read the lines given below and provide the concluding 8-10 lines:
Success is counted sweetest
By those who ne'er succeed
To comprehend a nectar
Requires sorest need.. .
20
3.
Write two verses that have the potential to be developed and 2 verses that are
static verses.
20
4,
What are some of the innovations that have been made in poetry in recent
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times according to you? Discuss with relevant examples.
5.
Write short notes on the following
a)
b)
c)
d)
The importance of metaphor in poetry
Climax in poetry
Free Verse
Poetic Diction
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