Article Writing

The B part of Unit 1 in ISC English Language textbook for class 11 deals with article writing, book review, film review and proposal writing. In this blog, you shall find the answers to assignment related to article writing. If you are not an ISC student, take this as a practice!

Article Writing

Elements in an article

1. An eye catching title to attract the reader's attention and suggest the theme of the article.
2. An introduction which defines the topic to be covered and keeps the reader's interest intact.
3. The main body of two to five paragraphs in which the topic is further developed in detail.
4. The conclusion, summarising the topic or giving a final opinion, recommendation or comment.

Assignment

(a). Write an article to be published in a local newspaper expressing your concern at the rising number of unemployed youth in our country.

Ans.                                           Unemployment In India

Unemployment means lack of employment. In simple way, unemployment means the state of being unemployed.Unemployment in India is a social issue and unemployment records in India are kept by the Ministry of Labour and Employment of India.

Union Ministry for Labour and Employment claimed national unemployment hovers around 3.7 percent in 2015-16. However, the data is based on usual principal subsidiary status (UPSS) approach that requires only 30 days of work in a year to call the person employed. 77 percent of the families reportedly have no regular wage earner and more than 67 percent have income less than ₹11,000 per month. Around 58 percent of unemployed graduates and 62 percent of unemployed post graduates cited non-availability of jobs matching with education/skill and experience as the main reason for unemployment. As per the National Skill Development Mission Document, as much as 97 percent of the workforce in India has not undergone formal skill training. About 76 percent of the households did not benefit from employment generating schemes like MGNREGA, PMEGP, SGSY, SJSRY, etc.

If we look at young boys (and even girls), we find that one of the reasons for which they cannot devote themselves to studies is the worry of unemployment facing them immediately at the end of the course.Whether they pass or fail in their examinations, there is the almost certain prospect of unemployment.When a student selects a course of study, he is not guided by considerations of tastes or aptitudes but by the prospect of earning a living.

No matter what kind the unemployment is - seasonal, industrial, educational, technological etc, it affect every section of the society. Before the industrial revolution, the child of a family was most likely to follow his parent's occupational footsteps. This happened because of the lack of educational institutes locally available. The only source of knowledge to a child were generally his parents. Today, despite the variety of educational facilities easily available, children choose to follow their parent's profession regardless of what their interests and passions are, hoping to get a job by the use of "contacts". Unemployment is tempting our youth to retrace the steps our ancestors regretted.

Due to deficit of jobs in India, most of the youth prefers jobs in foreign land. The talent of our nation is being drained to other countries and their expertise helps those countries to prosper and improve their economic conditions and political standing while India is suffering!

In conclusion, it is very clear that the rising rate of unemployed youth in our country is posing a threat to it's stability and, if not tackled in the near future, it can become a cause for it's downfall.

Sources: www.wikipedia.com and www.importantindia.com

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(b) Write an article for your school magazine entitled Global Warming:Are We Heading Towards A Major Catastrophe?

Ans.           Global Warming:Are We Heading Towards A Major Catastrophe?

Global warming, also referred to as climate change, is the observed century-scale rise in the average temperature of the Earth's climate system and its related effects. Multiple lines of scientific evidence show that the climate system is warming.Many of the observed changes since the 1950s are unprecedented in the instrumental temperature record, which extends back to the mid-19th century, and in paleoclimate proxy records of climate change over thousands of years.

In 2013, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fifth Assessment Report concluded, "It is extremely likely that human influence has been the dominant cause of the observed warming since the mid-20th century." The largest human influence has been the emission of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide. Climate model projections summarized in the report indicated that during the 21st century, the global surface temperature is likely to rise a further 0.3 to 1.7 °C (0.5 to 3.1 °F) in the lowest emissions scenario, and 2.6 to 4.8 °C (4.7 to 8.6 °F) in the highest emissions scenario.These findings have been recognized by the national science academies of the major industrialized nations and are not disputed by any scientific body of national or international standing.

Future climate change and associated impacts will differ from region to region.  Anticipated effects include increasing global temperatures, rising sea levels, changing precipitation, and expansion of deserts in the subtropics.Warming is expected to be greater over land than over the oceans and greatest in the Arctic, with the continuing retreat of glaciers, permafrost, and sea ice. Other likely changes include more frequent extreme weather events such as heat waves, droughts, heavy rainfall with floods, and heavy snowfall;ocean acidification; and species extinctions due to shifting temperature regimes. Effects significant to humans include the threat to food security from decreasing crop yields and the abandonment of populated areas due to rising sea levels.Because the climate system has a large "inertia" and greenhouse gases will remain in the atmosphere for a long time, many of these effects will persist for not only decades or centuries, but for tens of thousands of years to come.

Possible societal responses to global warming include mitigation by emissions reduction, adaptation to its effects, building systems resilient to its effects, and possible future climate engineering. Most countries are parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC),whose ultimate objective is to prevent dangerous anthropogenic climate change. Parties to the UNFCCC have agreed that deep cuts in emissions are required and that global warming should be limited to well below 2.0 °C (3.6 °F) compared to pre-industrial levels, with efforts made to limit warming to 1.5 °C (2.7 °F).

Public reactions to global warming and concern about its effects are also increasing. A global 2015 Pew Research Center report showed that a median of 54% of all respondents asked consider it "a very serious problem". Significant regional differences exist, with Americans and Chinese (whose economies are responsible for the greatest annual CO₂emissions) among the least concerned.

Sources - www.wikipedia.com

To find the answers to assignment in Unit 1:A, click here. [ Conversion of simple sentences to compound sentences and conversion of compound sentences to simple sentences]

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