Technical English and Report Writing M.ScIT 1st Term 2017 Past Paper UOS

University of Sargodha
M.Sc 1st Term Examination 2017
Subject: IT
Paper: Technical English and Report Writing (ENG-2413)
Time Allowed: 2:30 Hours
Maximum Marks: 80

Objective Part

Answer the following short questions in 2 to 3 lines only
16×2<> 32

i. Define academic community in your own words?
ii. What is unfocussed paragraph?
iii. Define digital environment?
iv. What is brain storming?
v. What is oral presentation?
vi. What is proof reading?
vii. What is difference between Myth and Reality?
viii. What is paragraph?
ix. What is topic sentence?
x. What is the role of planning in report writing?
xi. What is the difference between academic and public communities?
xii. What is speech anxiety?
xiii. What is drafting?
xiv. Define thesis?
xv. What is electronic community?
xvi. What is collaborative drafting?

Subjective Part

Note: Attempt any three out of the given questions. All the questions carry equal marks.
Keep to the point and relevant in your answers. 16×3<> 48

Q2. Elaborate the academic, public and work communities in your own words. How they are different from each other?

Q3. What is digital environment? How writing for digital environment is different from traditional writing? Explain with examples.

Q4. What does the term Critical Reading signify? Discuss in detail the strategies that are required for an effective critical reading?

Q5. What is oral presentation? How oral presentation can be made effective? Elaborate

Q6. Elucidate salient features of myths and realities that involve in writing an effective technical and report writing in 21st century?