期刊名称：Sanglap: Journal of Literary and Cultural Inquiry
电子版ISSN：2349-8064
出版年度：2020
卷号：7
期号：1
页码：1-27
DOI：10.35684/JLCI.2020.7101
语种：English
出版社：Ratnabali Publisher
摘要：The process of conceptualising this issue’s theme was organic. As newly recruited writing tutors (at a private university in the National Capital Region of New Delhi) in the emergent field of writing pedagogy in India, we hardly had any precedents to teach writing to students who walked into our cabins or attended the occasional workshop in a classroom. Writing syllabi are yet to be formalised for the Indian classrooms, and so are the evaluative criteria for a writing course. In that case, what constitutes good writing? We hardly had an answer. However, we hoped that the failure to answer this question could be a productive beginning for forging pathways of adjusting a North American import to the Indian classroom. So, in this Introduction, we stick to an exploratory tone of analysis, the reason for which will also be evident in the next discussion on the scant literature of this field in India, and consciously resist the finality of a thesis statement. Hence, we begin by engaging with moments of failure in the classroom.
