Devika Panikar
δάσκαλος (dáskalos) means the teacher in Greek. Devika Panikar has been teaching English Language and Literature since 2006. She is an Assistant Professor with the Directorate of Collegiate Education under the Government of Kerala and now works at the Government Law College, Thiruvananthapuram. This is a collection of lecture notes she prepared by referencing various sources for her students’ perusal.
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- 2020 - 2021
The 'Bloomfieldians'
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Paragraph Writing
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Modern Linguisitics: Aims and Attitudes
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Basic Sentence Patterns
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The Writing Process
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Syntax
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Fundamentals of Writing
Writing may be defined as the physical manifestation of language. A process of recording information using a coded system of symbols. It is a means by which ideas are transferred from one mind to ano…