Language Used in Academic Prospectuses A Descriptive Study

Abstract

This thesis entitled "Language Used in Academic Prospectuses: A Descriptive Study" makes an attempt to analyze and describe the language used in academic prospectuses in terms of sentence types, aspect, tense, voice and register words. This research is descriptive which is based on the primary sources of data of academic prospectus. The data of the study were judgmentally collected from different academic institutions found in Sunsari. Then, the required data were collected through observation according to the data collection tool. The outcomes possessed from the texts of prospectuses were tabled on the basis of collected data and linguistic characteristics. Then simple statistical tools were used to analyze the data by calculating the average and percentage. By using data, an effort has been made firstly to compare the language of prospectuses to find out the general tendency of writing within prospectuses.

The study found that use of simple sentences, simple aspect, active voice and tense simple is highly used in the academic prospectuses. Similarly, some register words were also found to be used in the text of academic prospectuses.

This thesis consists of four chapters and each chapter is divided in necessary headings and sub-headings. Chapter one deals with the general background, review of the literature, objectives, significance of the study, mass media and its types, language of prospectus and its essential components and definition of terms.

Chapter two presents the methodology of the study, sources of data, sampling procedure, tools for data collection and the process of data collection and the limitation of the study.

Chapter three deals with the analysis and interpretation of the collected data in accordance with the categories of the objectives. In this section, both statistical tools like average and percentage and descriptive approaches have been used to reach the conclusion.

Chapter four discusses the findings and recommendation based on the analysis and interpretation of the study. The references, appendixes and some sample texts of prospectus are included.