IGNOU DCE-01
- General Principles of Writing,
Latest Solved Assignment
(July 2024 - January 2025)

Answer any five questions in all. Choose at least two questions from each section.

SECTION A

1. What do you understand by the term Creative Impulse? Discuss writing as a form of self expression.
2. What do you understand by the term Monologue? Distinguish between a dialogue and a monologue. Give examples to discuss the role of each of them.
3. Comment on the significance of Climax in a Formula story. Discuss the four major types of formula stories that have typical endings.
4. (a)‘Command of language is essential for clarity in writing ‘. Discuss.
(b) What role does authenticity play in good writing? What do you understand by Authorial Voice?
5. Write short notes on:

a) Proofreading
b) Editing
c) Footnotes
d) Imagery and symbols.

SECTION B

6. ’Where are you going' ? Asked Maria. ‘Outside, 'said Bruno angrily. 'If it's any of your business. 'He had walked slowly but once he left the room he went more quickly towards the stairs and then ran down them at a great pace, suddenly feeling that if he didn't get out of the house soon he was going to faint away. And within a few seconds, he was outside and he started to run up and down the driveway, eager to do something active, anything that would tire him out. In the distance, he could see the gate that led to the road that led to the train station that led home, but the idea of going there, the idea of running away and being left on his own without anyone at all, was even more unpleasant to him than the idea of staying. The given passage is taken from a story about a nine-year-old boy whose family has just moved to a new town where he has no one to play with.

(a) Having read the passage. Write a possible opening paragraph of the story. (250words)
(b) What kind of 'ending' would you like to give to your story: a typical or a surprise ending? Why?
(c) Write an outline of the ending. (b+c15words)

7. The author of the given passage has successfully established the authenticity of the child’s experience making the account credible and readable. Elaborate on this statement. (400words)

8. Read the following poem and answer the question that follows :

Where the Mind is Without Fear
Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high;
Where knowledge is free; Where the world has not been broken up
into fragments' by narrow domestic walls;
Where words come out from the depths of truth;
Where tireless striving? stretches its arms towards
perfection; Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its
way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit;
Where the mind is led forward by thee into everwidening thought and action .... Into that heaven of freedom, my Father,
Let my country awake.
RABINDRANATH TAGORE

(a) What are the figures of speech used by the poet to express his ideas? Identify them and describe their impact on the reader.
(b) Describe in your own words the kind of world envisioned in the poem.