The Importance of English Language in Engineering.

 Hello readers! 

I Nidhi Jethava and Completed my Master of Arts in English Literature. Here I am attaching the presentation of 'The Importance of English Language in Engineering.' 

  

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Life

Whether direct or indirect, we are connected with people. One human can't be separated from family, society and their respective responsibilities. Life is not that easy as we heard in motivational speeches. Tragedies, comedies and bits of metaphysics and transcendental elements are here. Life is like #khichadi. As De Quincy said ' we can describe literature but can't define it ' in this way we just described our life but can't define it because each has different stories to tell. Life is a spontaneous flow of unexpected events. Whether we like it or not we have to go with the flow of the river which is known as time. 

When we are born we all get one free thing and that is time. Time comes with us and goes with us. We have four stages of life. We all are prisoners of time. Life, death and time are the things that we can't control but what is in our hand is the path, the way. We can choose our way or path for life. we can change our life. Neither any motivation nor any speeches work on you until you do not get enlightenment. Your inner voice, your inner fire, your urge. Only your voice will help you to motivate yourself. Listen to your voice. Do think about yourself. When we are born God gives us one empty diary and pen. Now it depends on us how we are creating the things. At which extent your imagination reached. Which life you want and what is your dedication. 

And finally you can make your own motivational funda. 

Life is

Hope + patience + hard as well as smart work + happiness + bit of sadness + success + pain + stability + and many more things = Life. 

Happy Friday 💐

Random Thoughts

Self motivation

Stream of consciousness

NIDHI JETHAVA

Library Committee

 A library in the middle of a community is a cross between an emergency exit, a life-raft and a festival. They are cathedrals of the mind; hospitals of the soul; theme parks of the imagination. On a cold rainy island, they are the only sheltered public spaces where you are not a consumer, but a citizen instead. —Caitlin Moran

Leaders and members of the Library Committee 2020-22

Library Committee members: 

                     

       Bhumika Mahida                                                Latta Baraiya

                     

         Aditi Vala                                                          Daya Vaghani

       

             Riddhi Bhatt                                               Pina Joshi

         

         Chandani Pandya                                          Jignesh Panchasra

     

                 Kishan Jadav                                          Stuti Gosai

                 

  Nitati Vyas                        Anjali Trivedi                      Nanditaba Chudasma 

The library is the place where you find yourself. The library helps to you increased your knowledge. Nidhi Jethava and Bhavyang Asari are the leaders of the library committee. In the year 20-21 corona was problematic for all of us so we could not arrange many events but as leaders, we made possible visits to the library and as a part of the syllabus students of semester four has to write a dissertation. For that we all students were visited our central library and we all went to book Pratha to purchase Gujarati books.

Central Library visit of semester four students:

we all sem 4 students visited our central library to review a Ph.D. thesis. With our batch syllabus changed and we have dissertation writing and for selecting topics and ideas about the content and texture sir suggest us to look at the thesis. It helps a lot and it's a very fruitful visit for us. We got the idea as well as new things about our field.

A process library committee leader, Nidhi Jethava and Asari Bhavyang have arranged this visit and all students are there.

Daya Vaghani, Sneha Agravat, Riddhi Bhatt, K.G. Jadav, Jignesh Panchasara, Aditi Vala, Chandani Pandya, Baraiya Latta are there for visiting.

Special thanks to Dilip Barad sir who suggested this library visit.

Here are a few glimpses of visiting and overviewing the thesis.

 

 

Book Pratha Visit

"There is no friend as loyal as a book".

-Ernest Hemingway

Reading is a very good habit that one needs to develop in life. Good books can inform you, enlighten you and lead you in the right direction. There is no better companion than a good book. Reading is important because it is good for your overall well-being.

Vinod Joshi sir has given the grant to the  department_of_English  to purchase books for our library. He is an Indian poet, writer, and literary critic in the Gujarati language from Gujarat, India. semester 2 4 students visited Bookpratha,  Bhavnagar to purchase books from his grant. We had purchased many books of Gujarati Literature.It will be useful for the department students. Because reading helps you to develop positive thinking. Reading is important because it develops your mind and gives you excessive knowledge and lessons of life. It helps you understand the world around you better. It keeps your mind active and enhances your creative ability. Sidney Sheldon perfectly describes: “Libraries store the energy that fuels the imagination. They open up windows to the world and inspire us to explore and achieve, and contribute to improving our quality of life.”

We are very grateful to Vinod Joshi sir  Dilip Barad sir and also showing our gratitude towards Vaidehi Hariyani ma'am and Yesha Bhatt ma'am for joining us.

Here are a few glimpses of the visit. 

 

 

Assignment on Research Methodology: Why Citation is Important and Why Plagiarism is it a serious matter?

 Name: Nidhi P. Jethava 

Paper: Research Methodology

Roll No. : 13

Enrollment Number: 306920200009

Email ID: jethavanidhi8@gmail.com 

Batch: 20-22( MA SEM- 4 )

Submitted to: S. B. Gardi Department of English, Maharaja KrishnaKumarsinhji Bhavnagar University 

Why Citation is Important and Why Plagiarism is it a serious matter? 

What is Research? 

“Research is a process of systematic inquiry that entails collection of data; documentation of critical information; and analysis and interpretation of that data/information, in accordance with suitable methodologies set by specific professional fields and academic disciplines.

Research is conducted to...

• Evaluate the validity of a hypothesis or an interpretive framework.

• To assemble a body of substantive knowledge and findings for sharing them in appropriate manners.

• To help generate questions for further inquiries.” (Hampshire College)

What is Citation? 

A "citation" is the way you tell your readers that certain material in your work came from another source. It also gives your readers the information necessary to find that source again, including:

• information about the author

• the title of the work

• the name and location of the company that published your copy of the source

• the date your copy was published

• the page numbers of the material you are borrowing. 

Why Citation is important?

Citing your sources is important for a variety of reasons, including:

• It gives credit to the authors of the sources you used

• It provides your reader with more information about your sources

• It shows your credibility

• It prevents plagiarism!

The easiest way to prevent plagiarism is by correctly noting your sources during the research and citing your sources in your writing and presentations.

According to Ohio State University

1. Giving Credit to Auther:

One major purpose of citations is to simply provide credit where it is due. When you provide accurate citations, you are acknowledging both the hard work that has gone into producing research and the person(s) who performed that research. Think about the effort you put into your work (whether essays, reports, or even non-academic jobs): if someone else took credit for your ideas or words, would that seem fair, or would you expect to have your efforts recognized?

2. It provides your reader with more information about your sources

Having accurate citations will help you as a researcher and writer keep track of the sources and information you find so that you can easily find the source again. Accurate citations may take some effort to produce, but they will save you time in the long run. So think of proper citation as a gift to your future researching self

3. To Provide Credibility to Your Work & to Place Your Work in Context

Providing accurate citations puts your work and ideas into an academic context. They tell your reader that you’ve done your research and know what others have said about your topic. Not only do citations provide context for your work but they also lend credibility and authority to your claims.

For example, if you’re researching and writing about sustainability and construction, you should cite experts in sustainability, construction, and sustainable construction in order to demonstrate that you are well-versed in the most common ideas in the fields. Although you can make a claim about sustainable construction after doing research only in that particular field, your claim will carry more weight if you can demonstrate that your claim can be supported by the research of experts in closely related fields as well.

Citing sources about sustainability and construction as well as sustainable construction demonstrates the diversity of views and approaches to the topic. In addition, proper citation also demonstrates the ways in which research is social: no one researches in a vacuum—we all rely on the work of others to help us during the research process.

4. It prevents plagiarism!

Misrepresenting your academic achievements by not giving credit to others indicates a lack of academic integrity. This is not only looked down upon by the scholarly community, but it is also punished. When you are a student this could mean a failing grade or even expulsion from the university. 

Plagiarism is a prominent problem encountered in the academic process and is one of the most common causes of compromising the academic integrity of the author. Sources must be cited in an appropriate form. Copying, using, or the misuse of other people’s ideas, words or concepts, without proper referencing is prohibited. It is not enough to change a few words in a phrase from the source material into “own words”. Changing the word-order of a sentence is unacceptable, as is the use of synonyms. Referencing and references, signify the quality of the work, detail the primary sources and are indicative of the extent of information on the subject. Proper referencing removes any question of plagiarism. ( Ario Santini)

Careful research 

Many instances of unintentional plagiarism can be traced back to sloppily taking notes during the research process. So be scrupulous in your research and note-taking. When you write, your notes will help you identify all borrowed material. Make sure that you clearly identify when you are copying words from a source (and transcribe them exactly or retain digital images of the passages), when you are summarizing or paraphrasing a source, and when you are jotting down an original thought of your own. Remember to record page numbers for quotations and paraphrased passages in your notes. Note-taking apps can help you collect information about your sources and organize your own ideas. Steer a middle course between recording too much information and too little. Details, like specific phrases and passages, will help you present evidence in your paper. But also remember to describe in your notes how a writer used those details to arrive at a particular conclusion. Notes that merely list quotations without giving any sense of why they are important, how they relate to the sources they derive from and to one another, and what they collectively mean will be of little help to you once you start writing. As you do research, collect all the sources you use in one place, which will allow you to double-check that your work acknowledges them. Care needs to be taken even when using a digital reference manager for notetaking or creating documentation, since the data used by the software can be incorrect and must be checked against your source. Thus, manual input is often required. Citation tools are a good starting point, but their output must be verified and edited. ( MLA Handbook 9th Edition)

 How to Cite a Source?

There are many different ways of citing resources from your research. The citation style sometimes depends on the academic discipline involved. For example:

• APA (American Psychological Association) is used by Education, Psychology, and Sciences

• MLA (Modern Language Association) style is used by the Humanities

• Chicago/Turabian style is generally used by Business, History, and the Fine Arts.

Why Plagiarism is it a serious matter? 

Occasionally an author or public speaker is accused of plagiarism. No doubt you have had classroom conversations about plagiarism and academic dishonesty. Your school may have an honor code that addresses academic dishonesty; your school almost certainly has disciplinary procedures meant to address plagiarism. But you may not be sure what exactly this offense is and how to avoid committing it. 

Plagiarism is presenting another person’s ideas, words, or entire work as your own. Plagiarism may sometimes have legal repercussions (e.g., when it involves copyright infringement) but is always unethical. 

Plagiarism can take a number of forms. Copying a published or unpublished text of any length, whether deliberately or accidentally, is plagiarism if you do not give credit to the source. Paraphrasing someone’s ideas or arguments or copying someone’s unique wording without giving proper credit is plagiarism. Turning in a paper or thesis written by someone else, even if you paid for it, is plagiarism. 

It is even possible to plagiarize yourself. In published work, if you reuse ideas or phrases that you used in prior work and do not cite your prior work, you have plagiarized. Many schools’ academic honesty policies prohibit the reuse of one’s prior work in papers, theses, and dissertations, even with selfcitation. (Sometimes, however, revising and building on your earlier work is useful and productive for intellectual growth; if you want to reuse portions of your previously written work in an educational context, ask your instructor.) When writers and public speakers are exposed as plagiarists in professional contexts, they may lose their jobs and are certain to suffer public embarrassment, diminished prestige, and loss of credibility. One instance of plagiarism can cast a shadow across an entire career because plagiarism reflects poorly on a person’s judgment, integrity, and honesty and calls into question everything about that person’s work. The consequences of plagiarism are not just personal, however. The damage done is also social. Ultimately, plagiarism is serious because it erodes public trust in information.

Works Cited

Modern Language Association of America. MLA Handbook (OFFICIAL). Edited by Modern Language Association of America, Modern Language Association, 2021.

Santini, Ario. “The Importance of Referencing.” NCBI, 9 February 2018, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5953266/. Accessed 17 March 2022.

“What is Research?” Hampshire College, https://www.hampshire.edu/dof/what-is-research. Accessed 17 March 2022.

“Why Cite Sources? – Choosing & Using Sources: A Guide to Academic Research.” The Ohio State University Pressbooks, https://ohiostate.pressbooks.pub/choosingsources/chapter/why-cite/. Accessed 17 March 2022.

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Assignment on Contemporary Literatures in English: 'The Only Story' as a Memory Novel

 Name: Nidhi P. Jethava 

Paper: Contemporary Literatures in English

Roll No. : 13

Enrollment Number: 306920200009

Email ID: jethavanidhi8@gmail.com 

Batch: 20-22( MA SEM- 4 )

Submitted to: S. B. Gardi Department of English, Maharaja KrishnaKumarsinhji Bhavnagar University 

The Only Story as a Memory Novel 

‘The Only Story is the thirteenth novel by contemporary writer Julian Barnes. So let’s discuss first Julian Barnes first and The Only Story.  

About Julian Barnes. 

Julian Barnes is the author of several books of stories, essays, a translation of Alphonse Daudet's In the Land of Pain, and numerous novels, including the 2011 Man Booker Prize winning novel The Sense of an Ending and the acclaimed The Noise of Time. His other recent publications include Keeping an Eye Open: Essays on Art and The Only Story.

His book The Man in the Red Coat was published in the UK in 2019 and in the US in 2020. He also selected and introduced a collection of John Cheever stories titled A Vision of the World  (Vintage Classics, 2021). His new novel Elizabeth Finch will be published in 2022. 

Barnes has received numerous awards and honours for his writing, most recently the David Cohen Prize for Literature in 2011, the 2011 Man Booker Prize, the 2021 Jerusalem Prize, and the 2021 Yasnaya Polyana Literary Award. Also in 2021, he was awarded the Jean Bernard Prize, so named in memory of the great specialist in hematology who was a member of the French Academy and chaired the Academy of Medicine.

About  The Only Story. 

‘The Only Story’ is the story of nineteen year Paul Roberts and forty-eight years old Sussan Macleod. It is a love story that is different than any other love story. The Only Story concerns the pained recollections of an aging Englishman's life-changing only love. Fifty years after he fell hard for a woman nearly 30 years his senior, Barnes' narrator scavenges his memory and probes the scar tissue of his cauterized heart in a way that's frequently painful to read.

The Only Story as a Memory Novel: 

‘The Only Story’ is a memory novel. It tuches some points like: 

History is collective memory; Memory is personal history. 

Trauma is Memory. 

Memory and Morality. 

Memory Prioritizes.

History is collective memory; Memory is personal history: 

While discussing ‘The Only Story’ as a ‘History is collective memory; Memory is personal history. We can get examples of cinematic examples of Momento. This Movie majorly talks about philosophical ideas. 

“Cinematic and narrational gimmicks apart, `Memento' contained a philosophical and ethical message at its core. If our memory is taken away from us so also is our moral responsibility for our actions. The protagonist in the film was being manipulated by conspirators who wanted to use him as the perfect instrument of murder, in that - having no memory of the crime - he could not later feel any remorse which might prompt him to confess to the deed. (Other examples - Taletell heart – Claudius confession, Arthur in Scarlet letter)

To add a further twist - both to the plot and to the moral question mark that it poses - there is ambiguity as to whether the exploited amnesiac is in fact exploiting the situation so as to make the most of his memory-free state and achieve a godlike - or devil-like - transcendence above and beyond the duality of good and evil. Is our sense of morality rooted in memory, and if we erase memory, do we erase morality along with it? This is the disturbing question raised by `Memento’.  Memento' questions not just the concept of a moral self but also the concept of a continuous moral identity - an 'I' - which is responsible for its past actions.”  (Dilip Barad)

In ‘The Only Story’ the protagonist Paul is the narrator of the story. The whole story is woven around their memory of him. So Mamonto arises questions like ‘Is our sense of morality rooted in memory, and if we erase memory, do we erase morality along with it? So this novel is also concerned with these questions. The character of Paul is telling us a story and he has remorse so he is hiding something, he is changing the history on his own memory. 

Trauma is Memory. 

Exploring the trauma and memory we can get some idea from Dipesh Chakraborty “ • One of principal arguments seems to be that “the narrative structure of the memory of trauma works on a principle opposite to that of any historical narrative”.

Julian Barnes in his two important works ‘ The Sence of an Ending’ and ‘The Only Story’ has talked about this. Cate Klanchy in his article talked “Our new hero, Paul, places himself nearer the truth-telling memoirist Barnes than his fictional predecessor, the fascinatingly unreliable Tony Webster in The Sense of an Ending. Paul begins, as if in essay form, with a wide, philosophical question: “Would you rather love the more, and suffer the more, or love the less, and suffer the less?” He constantly keeps one eye on historical context, and is especially astute on architectural detail and the way money is spent; and he is always intent on making himself ordinary, a mere example of humanity. As such, he is anxiously alert not only to the problems of self-heroizing, but its opposite: “There is the danger of being retrospectively anti-heroic: making yourself out to have behaved worse than you actually did can be a form of self-praise.”

Memory and Morality. 

Memory and Morality play a very important role. So Susan and paul’s relationship turns to disaster. So is the responsible for this? Is Susan has something wrong? Did Paul feel any regret for his deeds? In the middle of the novel, Paul has written a letter to Susan’s daughter because now he is not able to take care of her. So is he are ruining reality? The answer is yes throughout the novel he speaks lies and tries to run away with his moral duties. He might be able to save Susan but he could not do this and now he has remorse. So he wants to hide that remorse and that’s why he is saving himself. 

Memory Prioritizes.

“I would guess that memory prioritizes whatever is most useful to help keep the bearer of those memories going. So there would be a self-interest in bringing happier memories to the surface first.” His will be, he’s advising us, a story with a time line and an arc: happy first things first, upswing, downswing.” (TOS)

So above lines by Paul show that Paul goes on to introduce another feature of memory that will shape his story.  

Illustrating More about this one should remember the episode of Eric. “Eric had become involved with a younger American woman. Ashley said she loved him; a love which expressed itself as wanting to be with him all the time and never wanting to meet his friends. And Ashley wouldn’t sleep with him, no, not now anyway, but certainly later. Ashley had her faith, you see, and Eric, having been religious himself in his youth, could understand and appreciate that. Ashley wasn’t a member of an established church, because look at all the harm established churches had caused; Eric could see that too. Ashley said that if he loved her, and agreed with her contempt for worldly possessions, then he would surely join her in such beliefs. And so Eric, temporarily cut off from his friends, put his little house up for sale, planning to give the proceeds to some cockamamie sect in Baltimore, after which the couple would move there and be married by some cockamamie religious theorist, or shaman, or sham, whereupon Eric, in exchange for his Perivale house, would be granted squatter’s rights in perpetuity in his new wife’s body. Fortunately, almost at the last minute, some survival instinct asserted itself, and he had cancelled his instructions to the estate agent, whereupon Ashley vanished from his life for ever.”

So, Paul talks about this episode of his friend Eric has relationship with Ashely. Eric was ready to abandon everything but he realized that he was doing wrong and without hurting anybody he saved the situation. In the case of Paul, he was not able to do this. So, here that incident is very important. 

Conclusion:

In brief, ‘The Only Story’ is different from other so-called romantic stories. It’s based on Paul’s memory. It talks about the morals of life. It talks about different aspects of memory in one’s life. It is the story of remorse from paul wanting to run away by narrating the story his own way. Memory is not reliable and it changes according to the situation. 

“Memory sorts and sifts according to the demands made on it by the rememberer. Do we have access to the algorithm of its priorities? Probably not. But I would guess that memory prioritises whatever is most useful to help keep the bearer of those memories going.”

Works Cited

Barad, Dilip. “Memory Novel - Theme of Memory and History - The Only Story - Julian ….” SlideShare, 2 February 2022, https://www.slideshare.net/dilipbarad/memory-novel-theme-of-memory-and-history-the-only-story-julian-barnes. Accessed 17 March 2022.

Barnes, Julian. The Only Story. Random House, 2018.

Chakravarty, Dipesh. ‘Memories of Displacement: The Poetry and Prejudice of Dwelling’ in Habitation of Modernity, pp 116-17.

Clanchy, Kate, and John Grindrod. “The Only Story by Julian Barnes review – an exquisite look at love.” The Guardian, 26 January 2018, https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/jan/26/the-only-story-julian-barnes-review. Accessed 17 March 2022.

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