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The Reading Comprehension part of the Verbal Ability section of CAT exam has some trademark questions. If you are preparing seriously for CAT 2010, you should know the pattern of the questions asked in the exam. In the previous articles of MBAUniverse.com, you have seen some such questions. Some such questions are ‘Choosing the appropriate title for the given passage’, ‘Central Theme of the passage’ to name a few. Another such question is ‘Who is the author of the passage’? This article of MBAUniverse.com will explain the types of authors and the means to recognize them.

Sidharth Balakrishna, CAT expert, author and an IIM Calcutta alumnus identifies the following types of authors:

• A newspaper reporter

• A professor or expert in a particular field

• A social activist

• A corporate executive or a company official

• A student or parent etc

There are certain techniques which you should keep in mind. What you need to do is: On the basis of the author’s style and using certain clues or hints provided in the passage, you need to try and infer who the author of the passage could be,

Balakrishna says.

The style of writing will vary from author to author. As Balakrishna explains, “The style of a newspaper reporter will be different from that of a professor or an expert. Similarly, an article written by a corporate executive is likely to be different from that of a newspaper reporter.”

To understand the patterns of writing styles of the authors, Balakrishna examines the different writing patterns for different types of authors.

Newspaper reporter:

If the passage is written by a newspaper reporter, you can understand by identifying the following traits:

• Such an article will typically be about an event that has occurred. So a newspaper reporter’s article can be spotted by the subject of the article. It could be some political conference (such as WTO, UN summits, for example), the Annual General Body meeting of some corporate house, some sports event etc.

• A newspaper reporter will ensure that his audience understands both the story and its context. Thus the language shall be relatively simple; and the article will have a brief introduction, background to set the context etc

• The report is likely to be informative, in the sense it shall contain facts, figures, data etc, rather than mere opinions

• Newspaper reporters are supposed to be unbiased. Thus, the article shall normally have both sides of the story, rather than a clear bias in support of a particular point of view

• Importantly, reporters report what happened, what was stated by the various parties etc. Thus, you are likely to see the statements made by people, often in quotes. Indeed, the presence of such quotes (the exact statements made by the actors in the event) are a defining characteristic of a newspaper reporter’s story

• Normally, there shall not be too many technical details in such articles. This is because a newspaper is meant for the general public, not for experts in a particular field etc. Magazines may examine issues in detail, but newspaper articles will general be shorter and outline the issues.

Expert/ professor:

Now, let us move on to an article written by an expert in a particular field or a professor etc. How will you spot such an article? Here are some tips:

• While an article written by a newspaper reporter, as outlined above, is expected to be unbiased, an expert is more likely to advance a particular point of view (very often his own) or outline his own thoughts. This can be illustrated with an example:

If Sunil Gavaskar writes a column and speaks about a particular batsman, he may outline his views on what kind of strokes the batsman should avoid, how he should play, whether he should make certain changes in his stance at the crease etc. However, a newspaper reporter is unlikely to do all this-he cannot tell a batsman on how to bat-after all, why should a world-class batsman listen to a newspaper reporter on how he should bat?!

• So an important characteristic of an article written by a professor or expert is that such people are likely to express their views, thoughts, opinions or judgements, rather than merely outline facts

• Experts or professors may outline certain theories, new developments etc. So if the content of the article deals with scientific theories or some technical aspect, you could use this as a hint that the article may have been written by a professor or an expert in a particular field

• Experts/ professors are likely to try and support their viewpoints with relevant examples, or by giving details of experiments conducted etc. So if you notice the details of any technical or scientific experiment, on how it was conducted and the final result etc, you could consider this option.

Stay tuned to MBAUniverse.com for more on CAT 2010 preparation.

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