Workshop on Reading Others, Writing Yourself

The Department of English organized this workshop on Reading Others, Writing Yourself in order to signalize the importance of interrelated skills - reasoning and writing - prerequisite for academic success. It aimed to serve as a forum to recharge the linguistic acumen of the students by making them respond in writing to the text they have read, extemporaneoulsy but persuassively. 

Mr. Zameer Sayyed, the workshop Coordinator, while acquainting the students with the objective behind it said that Most of the students feel blank or empty when they are expected to respond to the text they have read or lecture they have attended. Further he said that This feeling of blankness is due to less or no practice of producing an academic discourse. Writing and reasoning, the topmost interrelated skills for success in higher education, are restricted to and/or reserved for exam-period only. Therefore this workshop aims at inspiring the students to 'think a lot, to write a lot'.

Ninety five undergraduate students came to the fore to engage in the task who were provided a sheet of proverbial sentences and were assigned to produce a clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization and style of their write-up will be appropriate to the context, purpose (authorial intention) and its reader (their expectations or satisfaction). The response was overwhelming and the participants found it an activity of experiential learning.