Advanced English Composition - QP

EDO UNIVERSITY, IYAMHO
EDO STATE, NIGERIA

DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH
2016/2017 FIRST SEMESTER EXAMINATION
MARKING SCHEME
Course Code: ENG 213

Course Title: ADVANCED ENGLISH COMPOSITION
INSTRUCTION: Answer question one (1) and any other three (3) questions. Marks
would be awarded for clarity of expression and organisation of ideas.
Time: 3 hours
1. Considering the fundamental elements of good speeches, appraise the attached

speeches for their strengths and weaknesses. (25 marks)
Students are expected to analyse the attached speeches. Students are to identify the
syntactic and graphological features that make up the speech. Other features that
enhance cohesion and coherence should also be identified. To be awarded full marks,
students are to identify these features and connect them to how it helps the speech.
The first speech attracts 15 marks while the second attracts 10 marks. Marks should
be awarded along on the following lines:
Speech 1
Excellent: 12- 15 marks
Good: 9 – 11 marks
Average: 7 – 8 ½
Below Average: 5 – 6 ½
Poor: 1- 4
Speech 2
Excellent: 6 – 7
Good: 4 ½ - 5 ½
Average: 3 – 4
Poor: 1-2
2. Do a formal outline on the topic “Tackling the Menace of Insurgency and
Militancy in Nigeria’’. (15 marks)
Students are expected to write a formal outline on the topic. Standard numbers are to
be used in the outline. Marks should be distributed as follows.
Excellent: 12 – 15 marks
Good: 9 – 11
Average: 7 – 8 ½
Below Average: 4 ½ - 6 ½
Poor: 1-4
3. Write an appraisal on how effectively the Buhari-led administration has been
able to curb corruption in Nigeria. (15 marks)
The marker’s discretion is important here. Marks should be awarded based on the
following:
Content: 3
Organisation: 3
Expression: 6
Mechanical Accuracy: 3
4. Write a letter to the Youths’ Minister, telling him about how Nigerian youths
can be better empowered. (15 marks)
Marks should be awarded based on the following:
Content: 3
Organisation: 3
Expression: 6
5. Write an address to be delivered at a youth forum organised by your community

on “The challenges young Nigerians face in the 21st century’’. (15 marks)
Content: 3
Organisation: 3
Expression: 6
6. Write an article suitable for publication in the National dailies on how to stem
the tide of Fulani Herdsman attacks and grazing issues in Nigeria. (15 marks)
Content: 3
Organisation: 3
Expression: 6
Abraham Lincoln,
THE GETTYSBURG ADDRESS
19 November 1863
FOURSCORE and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation,
conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we
are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation soconceived and so
dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to
dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting-place for those who here gave their lives that
that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But, in a larger
sense, we cannot dedicate—we cannot consecrate—we cannot hallow—this ground. The brave
men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far above our poor power to add
or detract. The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never
forget what they did here. It is for us, the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished
work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for usto be here
dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take
increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion; thatwe
here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain; that this nation, under God,shall
have a new birth of freedom; and that government of the people, by the people, for the people,
shall not perish from the earth.
PRESIDENT NNAMDI AZIKIWE’S SPEECH – A REACTION TO NIGERIA’S FIRST

MILITARY COUP – JANUARY 1966.
Violence has never been an instrument used by us, as founding fathers of the Nigerian
Republic, to solve political problems. In the British tradition, we talked the Colonial Office into
accepting our challenges for the demerits and merits of our case for self-government. After six
constitutional conferences in 1953, 1954, 1957, 1958, 1959, and 1960, Great Britain conceded
to us the right to assert our political independence as from October 1, 1960. None of the
Nigerian political parties ever adopted violent means to gain our political freedom and we are
happy to claim that not a drop of British or Nigerian blood was shed in the course of our
national struggle for our place in the sun. This historical fact enabled me to state publicly in
Nigeria that Her Majesty’s Government has presented self-government to us on a platter of
gold. Of course, my contemporaries scorned at me, but the facts of history are irrefutable. I
consider it most unfortunate that our ‘Young Turks’ decided to introduce the element of
violent revolution into Nigerian politics. No matter how they and our general public might have
been provoked by obstinate and perhaps grasping politicians, it is an unwise policy. I have
contacted General Aguiyi-Ironsi, General Officer Commanding the Nigerian armed forces,
who I understand, has now assumed the reins of the Federal Government. I offered my
services for any peace overtures to stop further bloodshed, to placate the mutinous officers, and
to restore law and order. As soon as I hear from him, I shall make arrangements to return
home. As far as I am concerned, I regard the killings of our political and military leaders as a
national calamity

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EDO UNIVERSITY, IYAMHO

EDO STATE, NIGERIA

Course Code: ENG 213

1. Considering the fundamental elements of good speeches, appraise the attached

Marks should be awarded based on the following:

5. Write an address to be delivered at a youth forum organised by your community

Marks should be awarded based on the following:

Marks should be awarded based on the following:

PRESIDENT NNAMDI AZIKIWE’S SPEECH – A REACTION TO NIGERIA’S FIRST

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