Writing Lab
offered by IIT Bombay

Deemed University
Estd. 1958

Writing Lab
at
IIT Bombay
Overview

Boost your career by mastering concepts to reading and writing of critiques

Duration	44 days
Mode of learning	Online
Schedule type	Self paced
Credential	Certificate

Writing Lab
at
IIT Bombay
Highlights

Earn a Graded assignments + digital portfolio
Lectures on key concepts by faculty
Writing activities (individually or in pairs in class)
Student presentations for learning
Guided student discussions and peer feedback on writing
Facilitated group readings and discussions on priorly circulated texts

Writing Lab
at
IIT Bombay
Course details

More about this course

The course focuses on strengthening students-analytical thinking and writing skills from a humanities perspective
This course will introduce students to different modes of rhetorical communication
Also enable them to formulate a critique on different kinds of writing that expresses their opinions, while grounding it in concrete evidence taken from texts and relevant contexts
The course, therefore, combines activities in deep reading with discussions, debates and writing to navigate non-didactic, rhetorical humanistic discourses and texts
There are three broad segments along which this course is structured
The first segment looks at the structure of texts as rhetorical entities that construct discourses in a stylised manner
The modes of communication covered will be expository, descriptive, narrative, and argumentative/persuasive

Writing Lab
at
IIT Bombay
Faculty details

Dr. Nishevita Jayendran

Dr. Nishevita Jayendran is an Assistant Professor (English Language and Literature) at the Centre for Education, Innovation and Action Research (CEIAR), Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, where she teaches courses on language education, critical and cultural literacy and discourse analysis of non/fiction to postgraduate students (Masters, MPhil and PhD).

Prof. Shishir K Jha

Prof Shishir K Jha is Head, Center for Policy Studies, and Professor, Shailesh J. Mehta School of Management, IIT Bombay. He holds a dual Masters degree in Business Administration and International Relations and a PhD in Political Science from Syracuse University.

Ms. Uttara Purandare

Uttara Purandare is a PhD student at the IITB-Monash Research Academy. She completed her BA in Economics and Sociology from St. Xavier’s College Mumbai. Uttara worked with the NGO Avehi Abacus Project on developing a curriculum that addresses gender and gender sensitivity, Saath Saath – Living together in harmony before going on to do her Masters.