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About This Course

Lesson 1 of 16 in the free Writing Skills & Art of Rhetoric notes on Siksha Sarovar, written by Rohit Jangra.

Writing Skills and the Art of Rhetoric — BCA I Semester

Writing is the most examined skill you will never be formally taught — until now. This course treats writing as a craft with learnable rules and rhetoric as the 2,300-year-old science of persuasion behind every great speech, advertisement, and argument you have ever encountered. By the end, you should be able to draft a precise paragraph, argue a position without committing a logical fallacy, write a flawless formal letter, compress a passage into a précis, and analyse why a famous speech works.

Who This Course Is For

Designed for BCA / undergraduate students facing a university communication paper, but equally useful for anyone preparing for placement group discussions, aptitude tests with verbal sections, or professional email-heavy roles.

Unit-Wise Syllabus

UnitThemeLessonsWhat You Will Master
Unit 1Foundations & Rhetoric1 – 3Clarity, coherence, concision; the writing process; ethos, pathos, logos; rhetorical devices in great speeches
Unit 2The Mechanics of Prose4 – 7Sentence types and emphasis; paragraph architecture and PEEL; grammar for formal writing; punctuation rules
Unit 3Essays & Argumentation8 – 9Essay types, thesis statements, outlines; claim–evidence–warrant; the logical fallacy catalogue
Unit 4Professional & Academic Writing10 – 13Business letters and applications; reports and technical writing; précis method; citations and plagiarism
Unit 5Spoken Rhetoric14Speech writing, openings and closings, the rule of three, analysing the Gettysburg Address

How to Study This Course

  1. Read actively. Every lesson contains before/after rewrites — cover the "after" version and attempt your own fix first.
  2. Memorise the tables. Examiners love definition-and-difference questions (formal vs informal, semicolon vs colon, précis vs summary). The comparison tables in each lesson are direct answer material.
  3. Practise the Exam Focus questions. Each lesson ends with 4–6 exam-style questions modelled on university end-term patterns: short definitions, error correction, format-based long answers, and passage analysis.
  4. Write daily. One paragraph a day, revised once, beats a night-before marathon. Writing skill compounds.

Typical Exam Pattern

Question TypeExamples From This Syllabus
Short notes / definitionsDefine ethos; distinguish coherence from cohesion; what is a topic sentence?
Error correctionFix subject–verb agreement, punctuation, or modifier errors in given sentences
Format questionsWrite a complaint letter / job application / report abstract in correct format
CompositionArgumentative essay with thesis and counter-argument; précis of a given passage
AnalysisIdentify rhetorical devices in an extract; name the fallacy in a statement
PYQ papers are available below in the lesson list.