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Assignment On Textual Coherence

Textual coherence

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Course: Academic English COM 107


Instructor: Hadiqa Badar Siddiqui
Assignment Topic: Textual Coherence

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Q1: In the following paragraph, the key noun is never repeated. Replace the pronoun it
with the key noun English wherever you think doing so would make the paragraph more
coherent.

English
1
English has almost become an international language. 2Except for Chinese, more people speak it
than any other language. 3Spanish is the official language of more countries in the world, but
more countries have it as their official or unofficial second language. 4More than 70 percent of
the world's mail is written in it. 5It is the primary language on the Internet. 6In international
business, it is used more than any other language, and it is the language of airline pilots and air
traffic controllers all over the world. 7Moreover, although French used to be the language of
diplomacy, it has displaced it throughout the world. 8Therefore, unless you plan to spend your
life alone on a desert island in the middle-of the Pacific Ocean, it is a useful language to know.

Q2: In the following paragraph, the pronouns are not consistent. Correct them to make this
paragraph more coherent.

Olympic Athletes
Olympic athletes must be strong both physically and mentally. First of all, if you hope to
compete in an Olympic sport, you must be physically strong. Furthermore, aspiring Olympians
must train rigorously for many years. For the most demanding sports, they train several hours a
day, five or six days a week, for ten or more years. In addition to being physically strong,
athletes must also be mentally tough. This means that you have to be totally dedicated to your
sport, often giving up a normal school, family, and social life. Being mentally strong also means
that he or she must be able to withstand the intense pressure of international competition with its
accompanying media coverage. Finally, not everyone can win a medal, so Olympians must
possess the inner strength to live with defeat.
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Q3: Improve the coherence of the following paragraph by adding transitions in the blank
spaces. Use the hints provided in parentheses to help you choose a transition.

Move Over, DVD. Here Comes BD!


First, CDs brought digital sound into our homes. Then OVO technology brought digital sound
and video and revolutionized the movie industry. Soon there will be (1)_______________
(additional idea) revolution: Blu-ray discs (80s). A Blu-ray disc will have several advantages.
(2)_________________ (list in order) it has an enormous data storage capacity. A single-sided
OVO can hold 4.7 gigabytes of information, about the size of an average 2-hour movie. A single
sided BD, (3)_____________(contrast), can hold up to 27 gigabytes, enough for 13 hours of
standard video. A (4)__________________(list in order) advantage is that a BD can record,
store, and play back high-definition video because of its larger capacity. A double-layer BD can
store about 50 gigabytes, enough for 4.5 hours of high-definition video. The cost will be about
the same. (5)_____________(additional idea), a BD has a higher date transfer rate-36 megabits
per second-than today's OVOs, which transfer at 10 megabits per second.
(6)________________(result) a BD can record 25 gigabytes of data in just over an hour and a
half. (7)_____________ (conclusion) because of their large storage capacity and comparable
cost, BDs will probably take over the market when they become widely available.

Q4: Read the following paragraph and decide which kind of logical order is used:
comparison/contrast, chronological order, or logical division of ideas. Be able to discuss the
reasons for your choice. Circle all transition signals.

The process of machine translation of languages is complex. To translate a document from


English into Japanese, for example, the computer first analyzes an English sentence, determining
its grammatical structure and identifying the subject, verb, objects, and modifiers. Next, the
words are translated by an English-Japanese dictionary. After that, another part of the computer
program analyzes the resulting awkward jumble of words and meanings and produces an
intelligible sentence based on the rules of Japanese syntax and the machine's understanding of
what the original English sentence meant. Finally, a human bilingual editor polishes the
computer-produced translation.
Kind of logical order:____________________________________

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