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Posted Date: 25 Dec 2008 Posted By: sridevi Member Level: Diamond
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2006 Birla Institute of Technology-Mesra TECHNICAL REPORT WRITING University Question paper
Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani
Distance Learning Programmes Division
Second Semester 2006-2007
Mid-Semester Test
(EC-1 Regular)
Course No. : TA ZC312
Course Title : TECHNICAL REPORT WRITING
No. of Pages = 2
No. of Questions = 4
Nature of Exam : Closed Book
Weightage : 40%
Duration : 2 Hours
Date of Exam : 04/02/2007 (FN)
Note:
1. Please follow all the Instructions to Candidates given on the cover page of the answer book.
2. All parts of a question should be answered consecutively. Each answer should start from a fresh page.
3. Mobile phones and computers of any kind should not be brought inside the examination hall.
4. Use of any unfair means will result in severe disciplinary action.
Q.1. Write a précis of the following passage and suggest a suitable title to it. [12]
The human individual is ostensibly concerned with the true nature of things, it loves the world of truth as distinct from the realm of untruth - stages of which have been briefly noticed in our earlier findings, but there is also the love of system, symmetry, order, pattern and beauty which satisfies the mind deeply. While truth attracts our admiration, awe and wonder, beauty evokes a sense of composure, sobriety and inner delight. All kinds of art come under the study of aesthetics. There are indeed many arts: kinds of expertness in methodical presentation to the point of perfection. Good writing is an art, good administration is an art, maintenance of good health is an art, being always happy within is an art, to live harmoniously with one's atmosphere or environment is an art, to think logically is an art, to be truly good is an art. All things that 'satisfy' are embodied in art. The greatest arts, supreme objects of aesthetic enjoyment are, to state them in an ascending order of importance, architecture and sculpture; drawing and painting; music, dance and drama; and, above all, literature.
Arts, which require for their presentation heavy external material, are lowest in the category of aesthetic evaluation. Architecture requires the largest quantity of weighty material. Sculpture also needs material but in a lesser quantity. Drawing and painting require the least of materials, just canvas and ink. Music and its attendant forms of aesthesis require no physical material at all, not even ink and pen. What is needed here is just a methodical production of sound. Art is visual, audible or intellectual. Architecture, sculpture, painting and drawing are examples of visual beauty; music is auditory, dance and drama are both visual and auditory; while literature is purely ideational, intellectual, an act of pure understanding and feeling. The higher we go in the order of ascent in the scheme of the presentation of beauty, the more enjoyable does the object become, so that powerful literature can shake the whole world in an instant. While the other arts have only a local importance and do not produce such a permanent effect on the mind as literature does.
TA ZC312 (EC-1 REGULAR) SECOND SEMESTER 2006-2007 PAGE 2
In the perception of art, there are, again, two phases as stated, namely, that which attracts by its beauty and that which attracts by its sublimity. The towering Himalaya mountains, the astounding expanse of the blue sky with its wondrous stellar kingdom, the majestic tumult of the ocean, and even the grand personality of the elephant evokes our sense of wonder and awe, partly because their largeness of quantum and unapproachableness makes us feel small in our own selves. The ego is pressed down to its minimal level and there it is in the absence of an egoistic affirmation of ourselves that we appreciate in wonderment the power and greatness of things, which are above us and seem to defy us with all our assumed importance. The other aspect of aesthetic perception is the attraction caused by beautiful things such as the blossoming of a healthy flower, the charming face of the full moon in a clear sky, as also the healthy shape presented in a symmetrically ordered body, whether of a substance a plant, an animal or a human being. Apart from the beauty of health and symmetry in the case of a human personality, there is also the factor of youthfulness, which adds to the charm of vigour, vitality and symmetry of the physical presentation.
But what is it that makes anything look beautiful? Philosophically, we may say that the proportion in which the Infinite, or the Absolute, as the highest universal, is visualised in any particular thing will decide the extent of beauty which that thing evokes. It is the universality involved in the particular that is the source of beauty and the sense of perception. In the perception of beauty, the processes involved are the perceiving mind, the act of perception and the object itself. The question arises, whether the object can be considered to be beautiful even if there is no one to perceive it. We may perhaps, in a way, concede that beauty and perfection do not require somebody to know them, since the flower and the moon and the charming face of a child can remain beautiful even if there is no one to see them. Our commonsense understanding would like to assert that this is true, but is this really true? Does the flower know that it is beautiful? Is the moon beautiful to itself? That is, does beauty really from part of the beautiful object? Here we seem to be in a doubtful position, and it does not look that, in the end, beauty can justify itself apart from the process of its being perceived. If being perceived is what gives beauty to an object, it would mean that beauty is in the perceiving mind rather than in the object. It has been well said that beauty is in the beholder. But here, again, is a question: can the mind perceive beauty if there is nothing to be perceived at all? Does the mind know that it is the source of beauty even if it has nothing to conceive or think of? (873)
Q.2. What are the various types of barriers that exist in a professional organization. Explain with examples and also suggest ways to overcome them. (10)
Q.3. Explain the different principles of business correspondence. Give suitable examples. (10)
Q.4. As the Chief of Information Processing Unit, write a Memorandum to the Financial Manager explaining why you feel the need of purchasing 40 Computers for your institution. Also seek his approval discussing the required software and quality of tools you would like to have these computers. (8)
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