Introduction to Content Writing — DU B.A. (Hons.) French Previous Year Question Papers

Credit distribution, Eligibility and Pre-requisites of the Course Course title & Credits Credit distribution of the course Eligibility Lecture Tutorial Practical/ criteria requisite of Practice the course Distribution of total credits Total Hours Hours of of Teaching Introduction to Content Writing Learning Objectives: Imparting basic skills and tools of content writing Encouraging awareness and imparting knowledge of content creation skills in in the concerned foreign language. Enabling learners to master specialised vocabulary, expressions for different kinds of content writing. Learning Outcomes: Enable students with content writing skills for effective designing of content catering to a variety of fields. Equip students to develop meaningful, need based offline and on line content Understanding offline and on line trends of different types of content – text, voice, infographics and videos. Imparting awarenes that writing is thinking. UNIT I: Introduction to Content Writing 9 Hours Informative content: to provide information, describe, explain, give the reader facts, tell what something looks like, summarize. Basic Characteristics: Expository or other topic-centered structure, title, opening statement, information organized in logical clusters, conclusion or summary. Writing Challenges and Possible solutions Basic do’s and don’ts of Content writing UNIT II: Outline, Presentation and Basic content of the Body 9 Hours Ascertaining different types of texts – informational report, descriptive report, explanatory report, observation log, scientific description, comparison, News article, photos with captions,  Content creation steps: Developing basic grammar, and punctuation.  Outlining the process of engaging headlines,  Discovering the goals of content,  Determining general structures of content writing, which include step-by-step verb-first, sentences or presented in a specific order using time-order words (first, second, third; now, next, then, finally), etc. Writing Recipes, science experiments, directions, instructions or manual, safety procedures, itinerary/schedule, rules, describing steps in a process such as a math operation, art project, steps in a fire drill, writing process, map with Directions, etc. UNIT III: Narrative Texts (Articles, Blogging, Web Pages) • Understand the difference between article, blogs and web page. Enabling students to write attractive contents by drawing them into an event or sequence of events to provide insights into a situation or the life of a person or other living thing Texts for practice may include Personal narrative, narrative nonfiction, eye-witness account, news/magazine article recounting an event, nonfiction storyboard, diary, autobiography, biography, historical account, photo essay (sequential), observation log that includes personal thoughts and reflections (over time) Make students aware of internet writing guidelines such as keyword density, plagiarised content etc.