Technical English and Report Writing M.ScIT 1st Term 2014 Past Paper UOS

University of Sargodha

• M. Sc. I. T, First Term Exam 2014 *

Subject: Information Technology
Paper: Technical English & Report Writing (ENG: 2413)

Time Allowed: 2:30 Hour
Maximum Marks: 80

Objective Part

Q.1. Write short answers of the following on your answer sheet. (2*16)
i. How could you define ‘proofreading’? 02
ii. What is ‘pre-writing’? 02
iii. How could you explain ‘summarising’? 02
iv. Differentiate between coherence and cohesion. 02
v. What is the difference between ‘academic writing’ and ‘public writing’? 02
vi. What is an ‘emphatic sentence’? 02
vii. What is ‘plagiarism’? 02
viii. Differentiate between ‘lab report’ and ‘research report’. 02
ix. How could you define ‘abstract’? 02
x. Define a ‘work community’. 02
xi. What is a ‘position paper’? 02
xii. What is ‘oral presentation’? 02
xiii. What is ‘synthesizing’? 02
xiv. Define ‘note-taking’. 02
xv. What is ‘speech anxiety’? 02
xvi. What is an ‘unfocussed paragraph’? 02

Subjective Part

Q.2. What is public writing? What are its various goals? Also mention its various types. How does the audience influence the writing process? (16)

Q.3. What are different stages in writing and developing a research thesis? Focus should be given to developing research questions and preliminary thesis, summarising, paraphrasing and synthesizing. (16)

Q.4. Write a detailed note on persuasive speaking. (16)

Q.5. What is critical reading? How can you differentiate between reading to understand and reading to respond? How reading can be turned into writing? (16)

Q.6.
a) Write a note on paragraph-writing. Differentiate between coherent and poor paragraphs. (08)
b) What are various issues that need to be addressed while designing a document? (08)