Writing Skills Suggestion: 1st Year Final Exam- 2023

1st Year Final Exam 2023, will be held on the year-2024 (এটা 2024 সালের এক্সাম এর জন্য সাজেশান)

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Part- A

Writing: Introduction

  • What is writing?                     
  • What kind of skill is writing?
  • What is language?
  • How many skills are there in English?
  • What are the four skills in English
  • What are the integrated skills of language?
  • What is brainstorming?- 2022
  • Write down the names of stages of the writing process.- 2022
  • What is cohesion in writing?
  • What do you mean by drafting?- 2022                
  • What is a bibliography?                             
  • What is skimming?- 2022                   
  • How does scanning differ from skimming?
  • What is scanning?
  • What do you know about biography?
  • What is plagiarism?        
  • What is subjectivity?
  • What is objectivity?
  • What is proofreading?
  • What does revising mean?

Paragraph

  • What is a paragraph?
  • What are the parts of a paragraph?
  • What is a process paragraph?
  • What is the topic sentence in a paragraph?
  • What are the functions of a topic sentence?
  • What is Terminator in writing a composition?
  • What is an expository paragraph?    
  • What is a definition paragraph?      
  • What is the controlling idea in a paragraph?
  • What is a lead sentence?
  • What is the key sentence in a paragraph?
  • Name different types of paragraphs.
  • What is a cause-and-effect paragraph?
  • What is a descriptive paragraph?
  • What is a contrast paragraph?
  • What do you know about a persuasive paragraph?
  • What do you know about an argumentative paragraph?
  • What is a classification paragraph?
  • What is a comparison paragraph?
  • What are the features or characteristics or qualities of a good paragraph?
  • What are the elements of a paragraph?
  • What do we need to do to write a good topic sentence?
  • What is the developer of a paragraph?- 2022            
  • What is the terminator in a paragraph?
  • How many step processes or preparation are there for paragraph development?
  • What is coherence in a paragraph?
  • Give the layout of a paragraph.
  • Which is the basic difference between a paragraph and an essay?
  • Which is complete- essay or paragraph?
  • What is a restatement in a paragraph?

Linkers/Transitions/Discourse Markers:

  • What do you mean by linkers?
  • What are linkers?
  • What are transitions?
  • Why are “discourse markers” needed in writing?- 2022 
  • Give a list of three sentence linkers or connectors used to write a coherent paragraph.
  • What is the function of linkers in a paragraph?
  • What are the linkers commonly used in a contrast paragraph?
  • What linkers are used in writing an example paragraph?                                                                      

Essay

  • What is an expository essay?
  • What is the function of an expository essay?
  • What do you mean by narrative essay?
  • Define a formal essay.
  • What is APA style?
  • Give a definition of the subjective essay?- 2022
  • Name a title on which an argumentative essay can be written.                                         
  • Write down the names of four types of essays.
  • What do you mean by an essay?
  • What are the different types of essays?
  • Discuss different features or characteristics or elements or qualities of an essay?
  • How many parts are there in an essay?
  • What is an ‘introduction’ in an essay?
  • What is a thesis statement?
  • Show the position of the ‘thesis statement’ in the introduction of an essay.
  • What is the main body of an essay?
  • What is the conclusion of an essay?
  • Give an outline of an essay.
  • What is a descriptive essay?
  • What do you know about critical essays?
  • What is a literary essay?
  • What is the function of an argumentative essay?
  • What is an argumentative essay?
  • What is a persuasive essay?
  • What do you mean by an example essay?
  • What purpose does the first paragraph of an essay serve?
  • Distinguish between a thesis statement and a topic sentence.

Report

  • What is a report?
  • What is Survey Report?
  • What are the parts of a survey report?               
  • What is a newspaper report?               
  • Name the parts of a news report.
  • What does a reporter enquire about in writing a news report?
  • For whom are news reports written?       
  • What is the purpose of a news report?
  • What is the main aim of writing a report?
  • What is a Business Report?
  • What is the structure of a short report?
  • Name the types of reports.
  • What is ‘Lead paragraph’?
  • What is ‘Story’ in a report?
  • What are the elements or features or characteristics of writing a report?
  • What is the aim of writing a report?
  • What do you know about a formal report?
  • What are the differences between a formal and an informal report?
  • How will you define a business report?
  • Why is a long report prepared?
  • What is an appendix?
  • What is a glossary?
  • What is an executive summary?
  • What is the lead in a news report?
  • What are the four imperatives for writing headlines?
  • What is the purpose of a headline in a report?
  • What is an informal report?                              

Letter

  • What is a business later?
  • What is a letter of complaint?            
  • What is a D.O. letter?- 2022         
  • What is a formal letter?
  • What are the parts of a formal letter?
  • What is an informal letter?
  • How many parts are there in an informal letter?
  • What is a cover letter?                               
  • Write the difference between a formal and an informal letter. 
  • What are the essential elements of an official letter?
  • How is a business letter different from other general reports?
  • What are the “four A’s” of sales letters?
  • What is L/C?
  • What is the subscription in a letter?
  • What is a letter?
  • How many kinds of letters are there?
  • What should be the proper complimentary closing of a Job Application?
  • What does N.B. stand for?
  • What is tone?
  • What is a mood?     
  • What is the elaboration of PS?
  • What is an official letter?   
  • Name the types or kinds of a business letter.
  • What are the four considerations of a business letter?
  • How many parts are there in a private letter?
  • What is the most important part of a letter?
  • Give two examples of a formal letter.
  • How many parts are there in an application?

Press Release

  • What is a press release?
  • What is the purpose of a press release? -2022
  • What kind of announcement is a press release?
  • What is the headline of a press release?
  • What special mark should be used at the end of a press release?
  • What is an embargo?
  • What is the embargo date?- 2022         
  • Why does a company send a press release to the media?
  • What is the dateline in a press release?
  • What is a boilerplate?
  • Who are the targets of a press release?
  • What are the Wh-words that a press release must answer?
  • What are the four imperatives for writing headlines?

Memo

  • Define memorandum.
  • What is the purpose of a memo?
  • What does the word memorandum mean?
  • What is the full name of the memo?
  • Mention the types of memos.
  • What are the parts or elements of a memo?
  • Give the format of a memo.
  • What are the functions of a memo?
  • How memos are different from letters?
  • To whom are memos written?

Notice

  • What is a notice?
  • What is the function of a notice?
  • What is the difference between a notice and a circular?
  • Where is a notice hung?
  • Where is a notice published?
  • What is the aim of a notice?
  • What type of communication is notice?                                 

CV/Resume/Bio-Data

  • What do you mean by bio-data?
  • What is Resume?
  • What is CV?
  • What does CV stand for?- 2022    
  • What is biography?
  • What is an academic CV?                                       
  • What is the American word for CV?           

Minutes

  • Define minutes.
  • What is meeting minutes?
  • What are the types of minutes?
  • What purposes do minutes serve?
  • Who usually takes notes during a meeting?
  • When do minutes are prepared?

Notes

  • What is a briefing note?
  • What is the objective or purpose or aim of a note?
  • Why do we take notes?
  • What are the three main parts of a note?
  • What are the types of the briefing?
  • Who is the introducer of the Cornell note-taking system?

Extra Questions

  • Define modifiers.
  • At least how many people need dialogue?
  • What is an essay hook?
  • What are signposts?
  • What are the bing, the bang, and the bongo?
  • What is the ‘point of view’?
  • What is a dialogue?
  • What is a context modulator?
  • What is the function of a ‘context modulator’?
  • What is a paceline?

Part- B

Paragraph

  • How do you define a paragraph? What are the essential parts of a paragraph? -2022
  • What is the topic sentence in a paragraph?
  • What are the characteristics of a good paragraph?
  • What is the five-step process of paragraph writing?
  • Name different types of paragraphs.
  • How are listing and cause and effect paragraphs developed?
  • How is the cause-and-effect paragraph developed?        
  • What do you understand by a cause-and-effect paragraph?
  • What are the features of a comparison paragraph?
  • Give the possible structures of a comparison-contrast paragraph.
  • Distinguish between narrative and descriptive paragraphs. -2022
  • What is plagiarism? How can you avoid plagiarism? -2022                           
  • What is brainstorming? How does it help you in writing a paragraph?
  • What is a contrast paragraph?    
  • Write a topic sentence for each of the following topics

Mobile Phone, E-mail -2022, Female, Education, A Village Market, Tree Plantation, Distance Learning, Friendship, Gender Discrimination -2022, Internet, Social Violence, Freedom of Speech, Punctuality -2022, Charity, Facebook, Tension, Patriotism, Student Politics, Drug Addiction, Acid Throwing, Globalization, Global Warming, Good Manners, Self-Reliance, A Rainy Day, Corruption -2022, Road Accident, Your Department, Freedom of Speech, Study of Science, Computer, My Mother, Truthfulness, Climate Change, Load Shedding, Study Tour, Winter Morning, Mobile.  

Linkers/Connectors

  • What are linkers? Give a list of linkers in cause-and-effect writing.
  • Give a list of sentence linkers or connectors used to write coherent paragraphs.
  • What linkers are usually used in a comparison paragraph?
  • Give a list of sentence linkers used to write a contrast paragraph.

Essay

  • Give a brief description of the three basic parts of an essay?
  • Write a good introduction for the essay titled, Hazards of Formalin Contamination in Foods.
  • Write an effective introduction of an essay in five sentences on the topic, Gender Disparity.
  • What is an essay? How is a descriptive essay different from a narrative one?What is an argumentative essay?
  • What are the functions of an argumentative essay?
  • What are the differences between the thesis statement and the topic sentence?
  • How is an essay different from a short story?           
  • What is an essay? How is an expository essay different from a narrative essay?

Report

  • What is a report? Name the parts of a news report.
  • What is a report? What does a reporter enquire in writing a news report?
  • What are the elements of a long report?
  • Differentiate between a lead sentence and a topic sentence.
  • Write a short note on news report? -2022
  • Give the format of a report.
  • What is a business report? 
  • Mention the elements of a formal report.  

                                                                                                  

Letter/Application

  • What is a cover letter? How many categories does a cover letter have?
  • How many parts are there in a formal letter?
  • Write down the structure of a formal letter.
  • What are the qualities of a good business letter?   
  • Define an official letter. Write down the essential elements of an official letter. -2022
  • What do you mean by formal letter and informal letter?
  • Write down the structure an informal letter?     
  • Distinguish between formal and informal letter.
  • Explain with examples the differences between formal and informal writing.
  • What are the differences between job application letters and office offer letters?
  • What are the purposes of a business letter?

CV, Resume, Bio-data   

  • What are the elements of a CV?
  • What is CV? Write down the format of a CV?
  • Show the difference between resume and CV.
  • How is a Bio-data different from a Resume?

Minutes

  • What are minutes?
  • What is the importance of the minutes?
  • Show the differences between press releases and minutes.

Notice

  • How are notices designed?
  • What are the characteristics of a notice?

Notes/Briefing Notes

  • What do you know about briefing note?
  • What are the characteristics of a good briefing note?

Memo

  • Show why and where memos are used.
  • Mention the differences between notice and memo.

Press Release

  • Show how a press release is usually written.

Part- C

1. Write a paragraph on:

Padma Bridge, Metro Rail, Importance of Reading Good Books, Load-shedding, Eve-teasing, Price Spiral Or Price Hike, Love, Internet, Social Violence, Good Governance, Life Without a Computer Today, Abuses of Mobile Phone, Good Manners, Study of English Literature, Patriotism, Cyber Crime.

2. Write an essay on:

Metro Rail, Pride of Bangladesh: Padma Bridge, Development of Bangladesh, Pollution, The Celebration of Pohela Boishakh, Digital Bangladesh, Cricket in Bangladesh, A Memorable Journey, ICT-based Education, Responsibilities of Media, Pleasures of Reading Literature, Empowerment of Women, Problems in Higher Education in Bangladesh

3. Report Writing

  • Write a report on the inauguration ceremony of the Padma Bridge.
  • Suppose, you are a staff correspondent of an English national daily. Now, write a report of a lift accident in a crowded shopping mall in your area.
  • Suppose, you are a staff correspondent for an English daily. Now, write a news report on the increase in anti-social activities in your locality.
  • Write a report on the kidnapping of a baby.
  • Write a report on the celebration of the annual prize-giving ceremony in your college.
  • Write a report on celebrating of International Mother Language Day in your college.
  • You have gone to a village which is often visited by floods. The villagers live a miserable life in acute poverty but they do not blame anybody. Now, write a report for the press based on your observation.
  • The prices of essential commodities are not decreasing. You are concerned about this fact. Now, write a report about this.
  • Suppose, you are a staff reporter for an English national daily. Now, write a report on the sudden inundation of the roads of Dhaka city.

4. Letter Writing

  • Write a letter to the manager of a commercial bank for a loan.
  • You bought a TV set from Singer Bangladesh a few days ago. Now it is not working properly. Write a letter to the Manager of Singer Bangladesh complaining about the set.
  • Write a letter to your friend inviting him to attend your sister’s marriage ceremony.
  • Write a letter to your younger brother/sister advising him/her on the importance of having good friends.
  • Write a letter to your younger brother about the good and bad sides of using the Internet. -2022
  • Write a letter to your younger brother advising him to read the daily newspapers and listen to the news as well.
  • Write a letter to your father describing your experience of hostel life.   
  • Think you are a secretary of a sports club. Now, write a letter to the sports goods manufacturing company named “Super Sports, Bogra” ordering some sports goods.

5. Application Writing

  • Write a job application for the post of lecturer in English.
  • Suppose, you are going to apply for the post of a junior officer in a reputed bank. Now, write an application to the General Manager of the bank along with your recent CV.
  • Write an application to the principal of your college seeking permission to organize a blood donation camp on the college campus.
  • Write an application to the principal of your college requesting him to equip your classroom with multi-media facilities.
  • Write an application to the head of your department seeking permission to celebrate the birthday of William Shakespeare in your department.
  • Write an application to your principal to enhance facilities on your college campus.
  • Write an application to the Chairman of the Department of English of your college to arrange an English debate competition.
  • Write an application to the principal of your college requesting permission to hold a debate competition on “Gender Discrimination”.
  • Write an application to the principal of your college for arranging sufficient electric fans for the classroom.

6. Notice

  • Write a notice as a course coordinator informing the students about the schedule of their in-course exams.
  • Suppose, you are a principal. Now, write a notice informing the students of the suspension of classes for holding the Final Year Examination.
  • Ekushey February, the International Mother Language Day will be observed in your college with due solemnity.  Suppose, you are the principal of the college. Now, write a notice.
  • Think, you are the principal of a college. One of your teachers died in an accident. Now, write a notice for a condolence meeting in this case to mourn his death.
  • Suppose, you are a principal. Now, write a notice informing the students of the celebration of Victory Day in your college.
  • Write a notice informing the students of starting the Honours First Year Test Examination.
  • Imagine yourself as a principal of a college. Now, write a notice for the students to attend the programs on the National Mourning Day.

7. Memo

  • Suppose, you are an MD of a multi-national company. Some of the officials are not regular in their duties. Now, write a memo asking them to be punctual.
  • Suppose, you are the director of a company. Now, write a memo to all your staff to work extra hours before Eid- holiday.
  • Write a memo to your staff to ensure not to leave the office before 5 p.m. -2022 
  • Write a memo of farewell to one of your colleagues.


8. Press Release

  • The International Mother Language Day was observed with due festivity in your college. Now, write a press release on the celebration.
  • Victory Day was observed in your college. Now, write a press release on the program.
  • Think, you are the convenor of a District Women’s Association. Now, write a press release about the observance of World Women’s Day.
  • ‘Inter-College Science Fair’ was held in your college. Now,   write a press release on the program.
  • ‘Campus cleanliness’ program was held in your college. Now, write a press release on the program.
  • ‘Short Computer Course’ started in your college. Now, write a news release on the program.

9. CV / Resume

  • Write an application with a CV for the post of Lecturer to the principal of a college.
  • Write an application with a CV for the post of Executive officer in a corporate company.

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