Friday 18 September 2009

Learn English Properly, Write Correctly

Unique English University
A unique online teaching arrangement with extensive courses on the English language and applied Journalism

Unique English University (UEU) offers advanced courses on all the relevant rules of English grammar and vocabulary exercises for students of higher secondary and higher levels, teachers of select groups and other professionals. It also provides courses on English-language journalism, defining journalism in varied modern paradigms and its genres as well as illustrating language, style and structure of news stories of different kinds.

Under its on-the-job training programme, the Univ conducts hands-on training courses for journalists and other professionals for developing their proficiency in the English language and journalistic work. Media and corporate houses, government offices, educational institutions and so can commission the services of the UEU for skill development of the members of their staffs.

Teaching in both the disciplines is principally done by Moslem Uddin Ahmed, BA (Hons) MA in English, a senior journalist and writer of two books on the English language and another two on journalism. ‘A Unique English Grammar’, written by him, is an outcome of his studious learning and extensive research in the main lingua franca of mankind, particularly in the digitized world. His latest journalism book titled ‘Feature Writing: Gemini Style’ offers an advanced student/journalist comprehensive feature-writing practice as well as illustrations on language, style and structure of hard-news stories, ethical dilemmas, etc. Both the books are followed at university level and by journalists who have procured those. Resource persons are hired if and when it is necessary.

Course fees depend on the duration and contents of a particular course required for a commissioning organization.


English language course offers innovative teach-ins on:


Formulaic structures of the English language
Phrase and Clause
Sentences and tenses
The sequence of tenses
Transformation of sentences
Viewing Voice anew: speak with freedom of speech
Narration: speaker-narrator-listener
Gimmicks of grammar: coinage and correction of common errors
Syntax: mistake in punctuation makes wrong meaning
Confusion about complement and object
Usage of Articles, Determiners, Prepositions
Subject-verb agreement
Classification of questions
Verbs and verbal derivatives: genesis of Gerund and Verbal Noun
Mood: how to be moody in manners of speech
Degree: measure the quality
Puzzles of the Possessive
A glance at spelling and pronunciation
Rhetoric and Prosody
Subcontinent’s vocabulary in English lexicon
Parliamentary parlance
A collection of useful words, phrases and idioms




Journalism course contains teach-ins on:

---Definition and genres of news
--How and where to begin in writing a news story
--Language and style
--Hard news (straightjacket story)
--Structure: inverted pyramidal order
--Depth reporting: story behind the story
--Structure: pyramidal order
--Guidelines for the reporter
--Feature-writing exercises: Gemini/Panos models