Definition
Bachelor of Business Studies (BBS) — First Year
Subject: Business English (MGT 201)
Unit 7: Patterns of Writing
Academic Year: 2083/84
Topic Objectives
After studying this topic, students should be able to:
- Explain the scope and key elements of definition.
- Use the relevant language and writing techniques in business communication.
Curriculum Scope
- Judy Brandy: I want a Wife
- Gayle Rosenwald Smith: The Wife-Beater
Detailed Microsyllabus
Definition writing
- Formal, extended and contextual definitions.
- Examples, distinctions, functions and descriptive explanation.
- Avoid circular or unnecessarily narrow definitions.
Prescribed-text analysis
- Read Judy Brandy's I want a Wife and Gayle Rosenwald Smith's The Wife-Beater as listed in TU's source.
- Analyze how the assigned texts develop and question meanings.
- Write an extended definition for a clearly identified audience.
Curriculum reference: Tribhuvan University, Faculty of Management, BBS curriculum with first-year syllabus, PDF pages 12-13.
Source note: The curriculum scope above is retained from the existing TU syllabus breakdown. The numbered study subtopics are editorial elaborations for teaching and study, rather than a separately issued TU syllabus. Unit lecture hours apply to the whole unit; no separate topic hours or marks are assigned here. Author names and reading titles follow the spelling in the TU source.