Name: Rajat Chowdhry Roll Number: 520810922 Learning Centre: 2017 Subject: Communication Skills Assignment No.

: 2 Date of Submission at the Learning Centre: 19th Dec,2008

A. QUESTION CARRIES FIVE MARKS

Ques. 1 What is a pronoun? Explain with examples the difference between emphatic pronoun and reflexive pronoun.

Noun holds an important place in the English language. However, we do not repeat the names of persons and things again and again. So Pronoun is used as a proxy to the proper noun to avoid repetition of the nouns. Ans.

Emphatic Pronoun :- They are used to emphasize the subject of the sentence. Example:I myself will take you there. You yourself are to be blamed.

Reflexive Pronoun :- Here the action reflects back on the noun. When the subject and object refer to the same person, reflexive pronoun is used. Example:Behave yourself. He killed himself.

Ques. 2

To be an effective listener, what are the strategies that you have to follow?

Ans. You can improve your listening skills by following some of the strategies mentioned below: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. Maintain eye contact with the speaker. Provide clues that you are actively involved in listening. Focus on content, not delivery Avoid emotional involvement Avoid distractions Refrain from formulating an immediate response. Ask Question Use the gap between the rate of speech and your rate of thought Be willing to accept revisions Choose the right environment Stay active by asking questions for yourself Treat listening as a challenging mental task.

Ques. 3 What do you mean by informal meetings? Write a note on informal meetings. Ans. It is the meetings, which mark the immediacy of the problem. These types of meeting are useful for resolving issues or problems quickly and easily. Informal meetings can take a range of difficult forms and can serve a variety of purposes like, Impromptu Meetings, such as in the corridor, by the water cooler or in the canteen. They can be held without any preparation to provide immediate resolution of minor problems. Virtual Meetings, are a type of informal meeting which can take place via Video Conferencing, E-mail discussion groups or Chartrooms. A face-to-face meeting might not be always necessary or possible because of the restraints of time and distance. Thanks to the new media technology, a virtual meeting can go on either in real time for an agreed time period as a digital version of a face-to-face meeting.

Ques. 4 What are footnotes? What are the rules that you have to follow while writing footnotes? Ans. Footnotes: include citations that are placed numerically at the bottom of same page where direct references are made. 1. Follow the tips given below while writing the footnote.

2. Only one sentence is used in a footnote citation, i.e., only one period or full stop is used at the end of any Footnote citation. 3. When mentioning a work for the first time, make a full and complete Footnote entry. 4. For second or later mention of the same work with intervening entries, where previously op. cit. was used, now only the author and page number or numbers used. 5. You should Indent footnote entries 5 spaces from the left margin.

Ques. 5 You are a manager of a computer firm. Write a memo denying an employees request for computer access to the Web. The reason being, that his work does not require internet access.
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Ques. 6 The notice below shows where various departments can be found in the head office of Global Computers. For each statement, decide which floor is needed and write the number in the box Floor The Internet connection has been down for two hours and I want to know whats happening. Where do I go for the Directors meeting? I need the report on the trials of our new software. I want to ask George about the recruitment drive and the training programme for new employees. My salary wasnt paid into my bank yesterday and I need to speak to someone about it. 2 3 1 4 5
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GLOBAL COMPUTERS

Floor 1: Reception Floor 2: Finance and Accounts Floor 3: IT Floor4: R & D Floor 5: HR Floor 6: CEO & Boardroom

EACH QUESTION CARRIES TEN MARKS

How to Avoid Plagiarism Whether you quote directly or paraphrase, you must acknowledge the source. Using another persons words or ideas without citing the source is plagiarism, a serious offense in the academic world and elsewhere. Students who plagiarize risk a failing grade in a class and even expulsion from school. Businesspeople, professionals, and politicians caught plagiarizing lose not only their credibility but often their jobs. For example, Boston University Dean H Joachim Maitre lost his job after it was learned that he plagiarized most of a commencement address. Laura Parker, a newspaper editor in Miami, was fired for copying one of her stories from a news service. And a drama critic in Vancouver, Washington, was fired for pilfering a film review from Roger Ebert. Unskilled researchers can unintentionally plagiarize if theyre not careful. Here are some suggestions for collecting data that might prevent an embarrassing moment for you. Take excellent notes: When you find a good data source, write complete notes on cards or separate sheets of paper. Mark the authors ideas and words carefully. Put your own remarks in parenthesis or use a different color. Be sure you distinguish your notes and ideas from the authors. Know what should be documented: Information that is common knowledge requires no documentation. For example, the statement The Wall Street Journal is a popular business newspaper would require no citation. Statements that are not common knowledge however must be documented. For example, The Wall Street Journal is the largest daily newspaper in the United States would require a citation because most people do not know this fact. Also use citations to document direct quotations and ideas that you summarize or paraphrase in your own words. Moreover, cite sources for proprietary information such as statistics organized and reported by a newspaper or magazine. Use quotations sparingly: Wise writers and speakers use direct quotations to (1) provide objective background data and establish the severity of a problem as seen by experts; (2) repeat identical phrasing because of its precision, clarity, or aptness; or (3) duplicate exact wording before criticizing. Avoid the tendency of untrained report writers to overuse quotations. Documents that contain pages of spliced-together quotations carry a hidden message: these writers have few ideas of their own. Introduce quotations: When you must use a long quotation, try to summarize and introduce it in your own words. Readers want to know the gist of a quotation before they tackle it. For example, to introduce a quotation discussing the shrinking staffs of large companies, you could precede it with your words: In predicting employment trends, Charles Waller believes the corporation of the future will depend on a small core of fulltime employees. Cite quotations and sources properly: Use quotation marks to enclose exact quotations, such as this: The current image, says Charles Waller, of a big glass-and-steel corporate headquarters on landscaped grounds directing a worldwide army of tens of thousands of employees may soon be a thing of the past. Select a documentation format, such as superscripts or parenthetical notes, and use it consistently.

Questions:
1. Give one word (from the text) for the phrases given below

a)

Put someone elses ideas into your own words :- PLAGIARISM

b) An additional qualifying, explanatory, or otherwise separate comment, sometimes also called brackets :- PARENTHETICAL c) A quotation from an authoritative source that is used to support an idea or argument :- DOCUMENTATION d) A way in which somebody or something typically behaves or happens or is likely to react :- APTNESS e) To steal small items of little value, especially habitually :-

2.
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Why should you acknowledge the source?

Using another persons words or ideas without citing the source is plagiarism, a serious offense in the academic world and elsewhere. Students who plagiarize risk a failing grade in a class and even expulsion from school. Businesspeople, professionals, and politicians caught plagiarizing lose not only their credibility but often their jobs.

3. Ans.

What should you avoid while quoting?

Avoid the tendency of untrained report writers to overuse quotations.

4. Ans.

Why are direct quotations used?

Wise writers and speakers use direct quotations to

(1) Provide objective background data and establish the severity of a problem as seen by experts; (2) Repeat identical phrasing because of its precision, clarity, or aptness; or (3) Duplicate exact wording before criticizing

5. Give the parts of speech of the following words in connection with their appearance in the passage

Boston University :- Noun Predict :- Adjective Current :- Adjective Skill :- Adjective On :- Preposition Army :- Adjective Also :- Conjunction Before :- Preposition Gist :- Pronoun It :- Preposition

6.

Change the underlined words into singular

Students who plagiarize risk a failing grade in a class and even expulsion from school. Businesspeople, professionals, and politicians caught plagiarizing lose not only their credibility but often their jobs Student who plagiarize risk a failing grades in a class and even expulsion from school. Businessman, professional, and politician caught plagiarizing lose not only their credibility but often their job
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7.

Change the gender of the following

a) b) c)

Author Her Critic

:- Author :- His :- Critic