Assignment-2

Q.1. Develop a well-knit paragraph on ‘The Roll of Technology in Education.’ (Refer

Katzoff’s para , maintain logical unity, use cohesive conjunction and employ other
techniques of writing a paragraph).

Q.2. Break the following to make it clearer.

As a preliminary study, in an attempt to establish a relationship between document length and

level of bureaucracy, we analyzed the length of 50 European Union documents, written in seven
of the official languages of the EU, to confirm whether documents, such as reports regarding
legislative and administrative issues, vary substantially in length from one language to another,
and whether this could be related, in some way, to the length of time typically needed to carry
out daily administrative tasks in those countries (e.g. withdrawing money from a bank account,
setting up bill payments with utility providers, understanding the clauses of an insurance
contract). The results showed that ...
Q.3. Disambiguate the following sentences.

1. To take our children to the party we all used we left our cars and then them there.
2. This should help to prevent piracy of CDs by Americans.
3. We investigated lions and tigers and elephants that are on the endangered species list.
4. We surveyed various immigrants: Tunisians, Moroccans and Senegalese who had entered the
country before 2015.
5. After opening the program, the email can be sent to multiple recipients.
6. The fire broke out in the forest bordering the river but was extinguished before any major
damage could be done by the local fire service.
7. Instructions for use: These articles are poisonous. If there are children in the house, keep them
locked up safely.
8. A full range of games were presented for the men with no balls (e.g. darts, diving, bungee
jumping).
9. Being over 500 years old, Dr Alvarez handled the painting with great care.
10. Preserved in a frozen state, Professor Chang examined the samples.
Assignment-3

Make Précis/summary of the following removing redundancies and making other

structural changes.

In order to computerize a factory, we need to develop a time sharing system. By computerizing a

factory, we mean that we want to make computer use available to as many people in the factory
as possible as cheaply as possible. However, there are two potential problems of a simple time
sharing system. The first potential problem is, “what happens if the computer is not working?”
the answer to this question is that everything grinds to a halt. In a situation where people have
become dependent on computer, not much gets done until the computer is up and running again.
The old saying about putting all your eggs in one basket comes to one’s mind here.

The second potential problem of the simple time sharing system is saturation. Saturation is the
result of an increase in number of users. As the number of users increases, the time it takes the
computer to do each users task also increases. Eventually, the computer’s response to each user
becomes unreasonably long. People get very upset about the time they have to wait

A partial solution for the two problems of a simple time sharing system is to use a distributed
processing system. The system has a powerful central computer with a large memory and a high
speed printer. Moreover, each user has a micro computer instead of a simply a video display
terminal .In other words, each user station is an independently functioning micro computer with
a C.P.U, ROM, RAM and probably magnetic and optical disc memory. This means that a person
can do many tasks on the micro computer without having to use the large computer at all. Since
micro computers are connected to the large computer through a network, a user can access the
computing power, memory or other resources of the large computer when needed

Distributing the processing to multiple computers or processors in a system has several

advantages. First, if the large computer goes down, the local micro computers can continue
working until they need to access the large computer for something. Second the burden on the
large computer is reduced greatly, because much of the computing is done by the local micro
computers. Finally, the distributed processing approach allows the system designer to use a local
micro computer that is best suited to the task it has to do. Thus, a distributed processing seems to
be the best way to go about computerizing a factory.