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What the syllabus expects

  • Alex Tabarrok: The Meat Market
  • Daniel Engber: Let them Drink Water!

Argumentation

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 argumentation.
  • Use the relevant language and writing techniques in business communication.

Curriculum Scope

  • Alex Tabarrok: The Meat Market
  • Daniel Engber: Let them Drink Water!

Detailed Microsyllabus

  1. Argumentative writing

    1. Claim, reasons, evidence and assumptions.
    2. Counterarguments, responses and a defensible conclusion.
    3. Distinguish persuasive appeals from unsupported assertions.

  2. Prescribed-text analysis

    1. Read Alex Tabarrok's The Meat Market and Daniel Engber's Let them Drink Water!.
    2. Evaluate argument structure and the use of evidence.
    3. Develop an argument with clear support and fair treatment of opposing views.

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.