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Read each text carefully and complete the proposed activities and exercises to apply the
reading comprehension strategies discussed in the learning material. The strategies to be
applied are:
1. Using an English dictionary for improving reading
2. Identifying implied main ideas
3. Finding arguments in your reading
4. Making outlines of readings
5. Finding hypothesis, explanations and conclusions in readings
Insight
Noun / ɪnsaɪt /
Insightful (adjective)
Insightfully (adverb)
If you gain insight or an insight into a complex situation or
problem, you can understand that situation or problem very
well.
Process maps provide insight into a process
That movie gave us insights into what a slave’s
life was like in the past.
1.1. Word # 1
FLOW /floʊ/
A process map is a planning and management tool that visually describes the flow of
work.
The flow of the stream carried the water to the lake
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Luigy Nieves
Nataly Rojas Torres
1.2. Word # 2
FLOWCHART /ˈfloʊ.tʃɑːrt/
REVEAL /rɪˈviːl/
It shows who and what is involved in a process and can be used in any business or
organization and can reveal areas where a process should be improved.
The facts reveal the truth
1.4. Word # 4
IMPROVE /ɪmˈpruːv/
PROVIDE /prəˈvaɪd/
BRAINSTORM /ˈbreɪn.stɔːrm/
Process maps provide insight into a process, help teams brainstorm ideas for process
improvement.
The team brainstormed all dat, but could not come up with a solution.
1.7. Word # 7
BOUNDARIES /ˈbaʊn.dər.i/
1.9. Word # 9
Linux has made an enormous impact on the server market, but the same can't be said for
the desktop market — and for good reason. Despite making big steps in the last several
years, it's still tricky for the uninitiated to use, and the user interfaces of the various
distributions remain far inferior to those of Windows or Mac OS X.
While Linux very well may be technically superior to these proprietary operating systems,
its weaknesses mean that most users will find it more difficult and less appealing to work
with. That means lower productivity, which will likely cost far more than purchasing a
proprietary operating system with which your staff is familiar (Rubens, 2017).
The topic of the reading is why linux has made an enormous impact on the server
market, but the same can´t be said for the desktop market.
2.2. What is the implied main idea being referred to in the reading passage?
2.3. What details can you find in the reading that support your proposed implied
main idea?
The reason that support that Linux is superior is its servers, but in the other hand Linux
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has not been able to convince users with its operating system
The main idea of the text is the manipulation of employee information and the access
that companies have to them.
3.2. What arguments for and against HRIS implementation are introduced in the
reading passage?
5. Employees can access their profile and 5. would have access to information
benefits globally from all employees
3.3. What is your opinion regarding the subject discussed in the reading passage?
Are you against or do you support the implementation of HRIS?
I believe that carrying out a digital business transformation is very appropriate because it
can reduce the time to hire an employee and the company’s human resources. But it is
important to have people who are highly qualified to handle this information and with
professional ethics.
4. Introduction
Language is a very important achievement for the human being which can be understood
from a certain age which still the intelligence has not been able to replicate 100% because
we have a consciousness and reasoning that the machine does not possess.
4.2 Subpoints
humans can pick up subtle references to feelings like being happy or sad while the
machine could pick up these emotions but not to the human’s reasonable
magnitude.
communication mechanisms are designed that are computationally effective
programs are carried out that execute or simulate communication
Natural language processing helps computers communicate with humans in their language
and scales other language-related tasks.
4.3.1 Subpoints
NLP enables computers to read text, hear the spoken voice, interpret it, measure
feeling, and determine which parts are important.
Today’s machines can analyze more language-based data than humans, without
fatigue and in a consistent and unbiased way.
Subpoints
IT creates new opportunities for innovation in products and services. Services which used
to be delivered in person can now be delivered over networks. Among the key levers are:
✓ resequencing: including parallel processing of data-bases
How dramatically Information Technologies are changing the business and workplace
landscape, what could be the advantages and disadvantages of them related with
different factors that the people lives in a day-to-day basis in their work spaces and how
big is the influence of IT is in business strategies and development.
5.3 What arguments, examples, details or explanations the author uses to support his
idea or hypothesis?
The main impacts are people feelings and motivation, new ways of working and work
environments, the effectiveness of workgroups, new communication patterns - changing
people's and management's roles and power, organization structures, IT
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After completing all the previous exercises and writing down your
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References
dummies. (2017). Natural Language Processing in Machine Learning - dummies.
Recuperado de http://www.dummies.com/programming/natural-language-processing-
machine-learning/
Lukaszewski, K. k., Stone, D. D., & Johnson, R. r. (2016). Impact of Human Resource
Information System Policies on Privacy. AIS Transactions On Human-Computer
Interaction, 8(2), 58-72.