Write: Logic
Module The Art and Architecture of Language
5 - 29 April 2024
INR 9,500
Participation
6:30 PM - 8:30 PM IST
Worldwide Registration Open
Fridays and Mondays
Online via Zoom
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About the Course
This course treats the ‘body’ parts of written texts: how should writers conceive, style, and organize justifications of the claims you make to readers?
Too often, writers presume that sheer statement of arguments or claims persuade readers:
‘Our company is an industry leader…’ ‘I am the most suitable candidate for this position/university/fellowship…’ ‘Technology is a curse…’ ‘Capitalism, an exploitative system…’ etc. Or, when writers do try to justify their claims, they often do not organize and stylize their evidence, methods, and interpretations in a logical, convincing way.
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We always write to inform readers - to make claims about the world that readers take seriously - whether in email, blog posts, journal and newspaper articles, press releases, advertisements, academic papers, fellowship applications, really in any form of writing. This course will teach you how to ground the claims you write with clarity and persuasion.
About the Professor
Rohit Goel is Director/Professor of the Bombay Institute for Critical Analysis and Research (BICAR). He is the editor of Future Perfect: Catastrophe and Redemption in the Contemporary (Kaph 2023) and the co-editor of Lacan contra Foucault: Subjectivity, Sex, Politics (Bloomsbury 2019). Rohit has taught courses in critical theory, historiography, and politics at the University of Chicago, Sciences Po Paris, the American University of Beirut, and Jnanapravaha Mumbai. He received the Fulbright IIE and Center for Arabic Study Abroad (CASA) fellowships to pursue years of Arabic language study in Syria and was awarded the Fulbright DDRA and Andrew C. Mellon Fellowship for PhD dissertation research in primary sources in Lebanon. He completed his BA from Harvard College and, as Harvard University’s Paul Williams Fellow to Emmanuel College, was granted an MPhil in Social and Political Sciences from the University of Cambridge.
Certificate
Students who complete the course (attendance) are eligible for a BICAR Certificate of Completion. Those who complete all three Write courses - Style, Argument and Logic - over two calendar years are eligible for a BICAR Diploma in The Art and Architecture of Language.
Refund Policy
We will refund your mode of payment — minus a 25% processing fee — if you choose not to take this course after the first session. Or, you can ‘roll over’ your balance to another or future BICAR course without a fee deduction.
Register
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