Welcome to the Rhetorical Ventures.

Rhetoric here is meant to include any attempt at expressing ideas. It derives the traditional concept of persuasion and motivation as a bottomline, but extends to the notion of effective communication in writing.

The main purpose of this blog is to explore ways of facilitating student writings from student perspective. A student writer encourages another writer with feedbacks and suggestions. The teacher-moderator facilitates the participation of multiple writers while at the same time helping to promote dialogues among participants.

Formally, the blog will help the students of Kathmandu University, Dhulikhel.  First, it will facilitate such courses of the Media Studies Programme as Creative Writing, General English,  and Text and Audience. Second, it is intended for the two courses in Communication Skills [ENGT 101 and ENGT 102] taught in the first year of different programmes under School of  Science and School of Engineering.

Apart from being a platform for regular curricular practices, this blog will be used for publishing readable/interesting works. It will be updated with study guidelines and other interesting materials. Other updates include links: blogs of teachers and students, important websites and bookmarks.

Some tips for the users:

1. If you want to participate as a writer (not necessarily for assignments), you can send your text to pranglish@gmail.com as a Microsoft Word attachment.

2. Articles may not be edited. They will be posted for their content quality.

3. You are encouraged to encourage the writers in this blog by sending feedback through the ‘comment’ option.

4. The blog does not use a lot of widgets. The principle is to keep you reading and writing and helping one another. It after all is a rhetorical venture, that is, the effort for effective communication through writing.

ALL THE BEST

5. Guidelines for writing will be posted under the category “Teacher’s Updates”.

6. Student Assignments (articles/essays/stories) are posted as ‘Assignments’ before being graded in one of the  following categories

Writers: Quality writings with very little need of revision

Trekkers: Works that reflect rigour and potential for perfection

Runners: Spontaneous and expressive pieces despite minor flaws

Ramblers: Expressive but less organized; in need of revision

Toddlers: Beginners in need of rigour.

Please do not write comments in this page. If you like to write me about this blog, for its improvement and better use, send me emails in pranglish@gmail.com .

 

Hem Raj Kafle

Assistant Professor of English

Department of Languages and Mass Communication

School of Arts, Kathmandu University, Nepal