Activities

Interviews and Interviewing Skills A job interview or an academic interview is a formal meeting at which people are asked questions by one or a panel of interviewers to find out if they are suitable for a job or a course of study. Job interviews usually follow an application being sent by a candidate, in response to an advertisement or otherwise. Interviews for jobs could be walk-in, which means that the candidate, following instructions in an advertisement, goes directly with all relevant documents, such as a CV, certificates and testimonials to the place where an interview is conducted—sometimes after a preliminary screening. Being a form of oral communication, interviews are usually conducted face-to-face, but this is now also being done increasingly over the telephone. A good academic background is undoubtedly the most important factor in your being able to find a job of your choice or in furthering your educational goals. It is, however, just as important that you lea...

Report Writing A report is a form of writing that gives information about event, situation or process to someone who wants it. To be useful a report must be written in clear, simple language and in a direct style that would allow the person for whom it is written to find the required information quickly and easily. It is necessary to be clear about three things when writing a report—what the report is about, who it is meant for, and what it will be used for. Report writing is an important communication skill that you will need to use during your years of study and, later, when you begin working The three kinds of reports you will learn to write in this unit are A. newspaper reports, B. reports of scientific experiments and processes, and C. official reports prepared on the instructions of someone in authority. A. Newspaper reports and general reports Newspaper reports cover current events and everyday incidents in the country and abroad. They deal with a variety of subje...

PLAYING THE ENGLISH GENTLEMAN- M. K. GANDHI My faith in vegetarianism grew on me from day to day. Salt's book whetted my appetite for dietetic studies. I went in for all books available on vegetarianism and read them. One of these, Howard Williams'  The Ethics of Diet , was a 'biographical history of the literature of humane dietetics from the earliest period to the present day'. It tried to make out, that all philosophers and prophets from Pythagoras and Jesus down to those of the present age were vegetarians. Dr. Anna Kingsford's  The Perfect Way in Diet  was also an attractive book. Dr. Allinson's writings on health and hygiene were likewise very helpful. He advocated a curative system based on regulation of the dietary of patients. Himself a vegetarian, he prescribed for his patients also a strictly vegetarian diet. The result of reading all this literature was that dietetic experiments came to take an important place in my life. Health was the princ...

Stephen Leacock Stephen Butler Leacock , (born 1869, Engand—died 1944Canada) was a Canadian humorist, educator, lecturer, and author. Works:  Literary Lapses  (1910),  Nonsense Novels  (1911),  Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town  (1912),  Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich  (1914),  Humour: Its Theory and Technique  (1935),  The Boy I Left Behind Me  (1946). With the Photographer - Stephen Leacock "I want my photograph taken," I said. The photographer looked at me without enthusiasm. He was a drooping man in a gray suit, with the dim eye of a natural scientist. But there is no need to describe him. Everybody knows what a photographer is like. "Sit there," he said, "and wait." I waited an hour. I read the Ladies Companion for 1912, the Girls Magazine for 1902 and the Infants Journal for 1888. I began to see that I had done an unwarrantable thing in breaking in on the privacy of this man's scienti...

Why I Want a Wife   } Judy ( Syfers ) Brady } Judy Brady (1937- ) was born in San Francisco } B.F.A . from the University of Iowa in 1962. } Brady's a feminist, a political and environmental activist—especially having to do with cancer-related issues, and a freelance writer. } She's edited both  Women and Cancer (1990) and  One in Three: Women with Cancer Confront an Epidemic  (1991). } Brady's work has also appeared in periodicals such as  Greenpeace Magazine  and  The Women's Review of Books . } Her classic satirical essay "Why I Want a Wife" was first published in the first issue of  Ms .   magazine  in 1972 . (as Judy Syfers ) } Reprinted in the same magazine in 1979 and 1990 } Why I Want a Wife- Judy Brady   I belong to that classification of people known as wives. I am A Wife. And, not altogether incidentally, I am a mother. } Not too long ago a male friend of mine appeared on the scene fresh fro...