Vocation of a Scholar

Assignment Paper12-E-C-302

Topic-  Vocation of a Scholar

Dabhi Ashvin P

M.A. Part – II

SEM- III

Roll No -06

Year – 2011-12

Department of English

Submitted to Dr. Dilip Barad

Department of English,

Bhavnagar University

Introduction: -

            

         There is the simple premise that the literary Scholar and the Critic are engaged in a common pursuit. There are some students who consider themselves as Critics and some students who consider themselves as Scholar so we can see the two roles. The contrast between the two is far than reality. The Critic’s vocation is mainly with the literary working itself and Scholar’s work is more concerned with the facts attending its roots and subsequent history.

         

           Only knowledge does not make you Scholar but how you apply it that is more important and that makes you Scholar and also we can say that a person who is highly educated or has an aptitude for study, is a Scholar. Scholars have both the wisdom and knowledge. They do not pursuit knowledge but they expand the horizons of the knowledge. They can not suppress their knowledge. They always try to find a new way in which they can share their knowledge with others and that is the nature of the Scholar.

          

         There is difference between Scholar and researcher. Researcher is the means and Scholarship is the end research is an occupation and Scholarship is a habit of mind and a way of life. Scholar is more than the researcher. They may be gifted in the discovery and assessment of facts. They are besides, person of broad and luminous learning. Examination is also and art. Human Scholarship moves. It is scientific or creative art. These both things are very important. The scope of English studies now also includes writing theory and pedagogy. The immoral of the profession would scarcely recognize the profession of English studies they helped found and develop.

         

         Literature is the product of human beings imagination and intellectual study of author. No one can write in vacuum. A book has both antecedents and a history of its own. Marlowe is the child of Renaissance or rising son of the Renaissance literature. Literature is an eloquent artistic document or an autobiography of the race’s soul. The reconstruction and interpretation of our literary past has its own dignity.

          

        Vocation is the strong feeling that you must to pursue a particular career or occupation. We have some types of felling and for that we have to do some works so that is called vocation. Here writer wants to write something that is his vocation. Researcher wants to research something new that is researcher’s vocation. A person’s career or occupation gives a fair degree of imagination, originality of approach, solidity of learning and the wish; they will see works of literary art and their creators from new perspectives. The occupation gives well-known status to a person. If you have good degree or occupation, the people call you with dignity. Your image is created by your occupation or career.

         

         Scholar makes a good research paper or creates a new knowledge but he has trust on his work. The work which has been done by Scholar it should not be a guess work. It has some strong effect. It should be solid. There are not these types of words like I think, I guess, etc. scholar should do his work with full of truth. Everyone called to the profession will discover amply rewarding project. Profession gives you reward for your projects.

         

         If you want to write regarding anything first you have to interpret it and then you have to understand and appreciate. These three things are important to create a new thing or knowledge. First we have to interpret any problem or theory or work then we have to understand that things very well and last we have to appreciate it in our words or ideas. These three good qualities should be in Scholar and those are the parts of the Scholar.

          

         Scholar is more concerned with the facts attending its genesis and subsequent history. Scholar concerns genesis because he studies the roots that is genesis and he gives their conclusion. Scholar studies the main point of the writing and then he gives the solution or new knowledge of this writing.

         

           There is a mentality like “publish or perish.” There are so many literary researches which have been done by academic people. They have to publish the traditional encouragement and also the results of research have provided the traditional encourage the professional ladder. The idea “Publish or Perish” is famous and an overused idea still it describes the attitude of many college and university administrators. It describes that as a teaching faculty you have to write a research paper not only it but it should be published. Now a day it is compulsory for teaching faculty. A three words slogan suggests a complicated academic situation. It simplifies an equally complicated relationship between published Scholarship and the purpose of higher education. It is an external pressure to write scholarly books and articles. It may well divert a career from its natural course. At the end of the research it becomes happiness for scholar.

         

          Law and journalism are related to Scholar’s vocation. They both are working of the principles of evidence. They are very important for the Scholar. Scholar should be well and ideally equipped. Literary Scholar should have come to his or her profession after serving a practical apprenticeship in one or the other of two occupations like law and journalism. The principles of evidence are important in the occupation of law and journalism. The practice of law needs a love both to accuracy and to detail. It requires knowledge how to make the statutes and decisions applying to a given case.  In the occupation of journalism there is the work of reporting. It is the work of investigation. He should have known that for knowing where to go for one’s information and how to get the information. He should have the ability to know and follow up leads. He should have the quality of sticking fast in pursuit of the facts. There is the main important thing is that how to organize the things. These both occupations require the skill of organization and the ability to put the information together in a proper way. As the both occupations, Scholar must have the principles of evidence and resourcefulness you can not do anything. He must be aware of which website or library will help him to write his research and that is very important. He must have the skill of organizing idea because he has got many things, articles and sources but if he does not know how to organize those things in a proper way at that time all these things become vain.

         

         Ideal Scholar must love literature. He can get the references from literature for research. With the help of literature he can get the basic theory or some historical idea. It is an art. If someone force you and then you sit for reading it is not true but if you love something and then you sit for reading at that time the reading became very interesting and useful otherwise it becomes the only task without any specific purpose with the help of literature you can know where the literary scholar has stopped his point or discussion so that the thing can not be repeated and he can give the new idea. So here I can say that Scholar must love literature. 

            

          Scholar must be insatiable reader. They must have a habit of getting more and more. It is better that they have acquired earlier that passion in their life. In the work of research Scholar need to read more books or any other things that can be helpful for writing research. If you have read more, you can easily put appropriate examples in your work. With the help of reading you can explain any idea very easily. Sometimes you have to compare your work with other at that time your external reading must be helpful to you for solving this type of problem. This type of habit readers have to cultivate very earlier because after some years you can not put it in your life and there is a proverb for that like,

“Habit dies hard”

        

        In Gujarati we can say that “Paka ghade kantha Na chade.”

         

       Scholar must be involved in his work totally but he must be detaching with it in the sense of pleasure or displeasure. Here I would like to give example of Umpire in cricket match but he is totally involve in cricket match but he is detach with it because any wicket or run does not give pleasure to Umpire. However the situation is in the match, the Umpire does not get pleasure or displeasure. Here we can see that though the Umpire is totally engage with match, he is detach with it. Scholar must be like this and he must be totally involved in his work but he must be detaching with it in the sense of pleasure and displeasure.

          Scholar must have a habit of hard. He has to remember all these things like; from which books he has taken the example or reference? He has to remember the page number of the book and if he has taken some thing from internet then he has to remember date, the name of website etc. so it is very suitable that “the test of a vocation is the love of the Drudgery it involves.” The Scholar pays for every exultant discovery with a hundred hours of monotonous, eye searching labor.

Conclusion: -

         

         To conclude my point I would like to say that a Researcher or a Scholar should always be learning new things so they can guide others.         

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