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Usenet Posted 20 years ago
English in UK
Does this paragraph sound alright?
Hi, I am a third year student studying Computer Science at the University of Nottingham. I need help with a small part of my dissertation:
"Since the evolution of computer science, digital images have become widely used. But in many cases, the sizes of the images are much bigger than that of the screen, especially for small screen devices. This may result in the user being able to view only a part of the image and the contents of the document containing it. Many applications just simply ignore that problem or solve it with a simple resization. This project aims to solve the problem in a better way. By analysing the information in the image and then applying wavelet transforms, I am expecting to provide a good adaptation of the image so that it can be displayed on the screen at a good quality without occupying much space."
In my opinion there is some problem with the change from "the images" in the second sentence to "the image" in the others. I'm trying to make it better but it's very hard for me since English is my second language. Please help me fix the errors so the paragraph can be in a good English written style. Thank you very much in advance
"Since the evolution of computer science, digital images have become widely used. But in many cases, the sizes of the images are much bigger than that of the screen, especially for small screen devices. This may result in the user being able to view only a part of the image and the contents of the document containing it. Many applications just simply ignore that problem or solve it with a simple resization. This project aims to solve the problem in a better way. By analysing the information in the image and then applying wavelet transforms, I am expecting to provide a good adaptation of the image so that it can be displayed on the screen at a good quality without occupying much space."
In my opinion there is some problem with the change from "the images" in the second sentence to "the image" in the others. I'm trying to make it better but it's very hard for me since English is my second language. Please help me fix the errors so the paragraph can be in a good English written style. Thank you very much in advance
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At 15:59:39 on Thu, 27 Apr 2006, Trung Chinh Nguyen (Email Removed) wrote in [nq:1]In my opinion there is some problem with the change from "the images" in the second sentence to "the image" ... fix the errors so the paragraph can be in a good English written style. Thank you very much in advance[/nq] It's very good - better than most people with English as their first language would have produced.
- At 15:59:39 on Thu, 27 Apr 2006, Trung Chinh Nguyen (Email Removed) wrote in [nq:1]In my opinion there is some problem with the change from "the images" in the second sentence to "the image" ...
- fix the errors so the paragraph can be in a good English written style.
- Thank you very much in advance[/nq] It's very good - better than most people with English as their first language would have produced.
- I see no problem at all in moving from "the images" to "the image", but if you wanted to make the distinction as clear as possible you could change "the image" to "an image".
- There are only three other points: "resization" probably doesn't exist - at least, I've never come across it!
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At 15:59:39 on Thu, 27 Apr 2006, Trung Chinh Nguyen (Email Removed) wrote in
[nq:1]In my opinion there is some problem with the change from "the images" in the second sentence to "the image" ... fix the errors so the paragraph can be in a good English written style. Thank you very much in advance[/nq]
It's very good - better than most people with English as their first language would have
[nq:1]In my opinion there is some problem with the change from "the images" in the second sentence to "the image" ... fix the errors so the paragraph can be in a good English written style. Thank you very much in advance[/nq]
It's very good - better than most people with English as their first language would have
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[nq:1]Hi, I am a third year student studying Computer Science at the University of Nottingham. I need help with a ... fix the errors so the paragraph can be in a good English written style. Thank you very much in advance[/nq]
I would say "the size of the images is..", as you say "but in many cases". This makes what you are talking about general, so the 'one' size means the (one) size of each i
I would say "the size of the images is..", as you say "but in many cases". This makes what you are talking about general, so the 'one' size means the (one) size of each i
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[nq:1]Hi, I am a third year student studying Computer Science at the University of Nottingham. I need help with a small part of mydissertation:[/nq]
I agree with both Molly and John. "Me too" posts are usually frowned on in usenet but I just wanted to encourage you and compliment you on the standard of your English.
I agree with both Molly and John. "Me too" posts are usually frowned on in usenet but I just wanted to encourage you and compliment you on the standard of your English.
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[nq:1]Thank you very much for your helps 
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Tut! You were doing so well. No 's' on 'help' ;-)
[/nq]Tut! You were doing so well. No 's' on 'help' ;-)
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[nq:1]Tut! You were doing so well. No 's' on 'help' ;-)[/nq]
lol thanks, seems like google is not a good place to do grammar/spell checking
lol thanks, seems like google is not a good place to do grammar/spell checking
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Trung,
I think that you are introducing too many ideas in this paragraph. It is difficult for me to see one unifying idea that could be used to describe this paragraph. For example, the problems with digital images represented on computer screens. I would distribute the ideas that you are presenting here over the body of sections that you will include in your dissertation.
Also be careful
I think that you are introducing too many ideas in this paragraph. It is difficult for me to see one unifying idea that could be used to describe this paragraph. For example, the problems with digital images represented on computer screens. I would distribute the ideas that you are presenting here over the body of sections that you will include in your dissertation.
Also be careful
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