Table of contents:

Section 1: Basic Skills
A: Revising Grammar
B: developing concepts
C: Vocabulary
D: Comprehension

Section 2: Modes of writing
A: Description
B: Narration
C: Exposition
D: Arguments
E: Persuasion

Section 3: Forms of writing

A: The essay
B: The business letter
C: The precis
D: The report
E: The proposal
F: The curriculum vitae and the job application letter
G: The research paper
H: Communication within the office
I: Writing for publicity
J: The presentation

Section 4: Selections for reading
Prose
Dear as the moon by Verrier Elwin
Scientific research for amateurs by JBS Haldane
British Government in India by Jawaharlal Nehru
Modern improvement by John
Shakespeare's sister by Virginia Woolf
The religion of the forest by Rabindranath Tagore

Poetry
When I have seen by William Shakespeare
Since brass, nor stone by William Shakespeare
That time of year by William Shakespeare
Virtue by George Herbert
On his blindness by John Milton
On the late massacre in peidmont by John Milton
Lines written in early spring by William Wordsworth
Upon westminster bridge by William Wordsworth
The world is too much with us by William Wordsworth
On the grasshopper and cricket by John Keats
When I have fears by John Keats
Ulysses Alfred Tennyson
Prospice by Robert Browning
Dover Beach by Matthew Arbold
The Darkling Thrush by Thomas Hardly
In time of the breaking of nations by Thomas Hardly
The folly of being comforted by William Butler Yeats
An acre of grass by William Butler Yeats
Futility Wilfred Owen
Autumn by Walter Owen
from in memory of WB Yeats by Wystan Huge Auden
This bread I break by Dylan Thomas
Jamini Roy by Nissim Ezekiel
Ajamil and the tigers by Arun Kolatkar

Short Stories

The adventure of the blue carbuncle by Arthur conan Doyal
After twenty years by O' Henry
The secret life of walter mitty by Mulk Raj Anand
Selvi by R K Narayan