Thursday, June 2, 2011

Easiest way to summarize this info into 2- 3 paragraphs?

When you write a story on the computer you can make the text look any way you want. You can change how the letters appear by using a different font. Each font is a set of graphics that represent each letter. The computer knows which characters to use by following a code.

Each word processing application is a program that writes the code for each character as you type the letters and words in the viewing window. Each character you type is remembered by the computer program when you save it in a file.

How does a computer remember information? They encode the information by using a pattern. One example is binary code, it is a pattern of zeros and ones that can be used to encode information and store it in your hard drive as a file. When you save a text file, you might choose to embed the encoded text in the file, which will change the amount of information that is in the file.

Every bit of information that is stored in a file takes up a certain amount of space in the computer's memory. Since a computer has a limited amount of memory, the size of each file needs to be measured so the computer can keep track of how much memory is used and how much is free. The amount of space that a file uses is called the file size, and is usually measured in kilobytes (KB) or megabytes (MB).

In this experiment you will test how much memory is needed to store a simple piece of information, the story of %26quot;The Three Little Pigs.%26quot; You will change the font of the story to see if the size of the file changes. Does the font change the file size?Easiest way to summarize this info into 2- 3 paragraphs?
1. Computers store and calculate things like letters and numbers as combinations of ones and zeros.

2. The pattern used to store text is called ASCII, for example the small letter %26quot;a%26quot; is always stored as 0110 0001. The storage will always take the same number of bits, regardless of how it is eventually displayed or printed.

3. When the text is displayed or printed the device used, such as a video screen or printer, uses a font of some size and shape to display it or print it. Selecting a font, does not change the number of bits that were needed to store the text.Easiest way to summarize this info into 2- 3 paragraphs?
Take all the main points from each paragraph. For example, in paragraph 3, you have:



%26quot;How does a computer remember information? They encode the information by using a pattern. One example is binary code, it is a pattern of zeros and ones that can be used to encode information and store it in your hard drive as a file.%26quot;



You can't have questions in a summary, so you want to rephrase it along with the answer, I would say something like:



%26quot;A computer stores information by encoding it in a pattern of ones and zeros called a binary code.%26quot;



For paragraph 2 you could say:



%26quot;Word processing applications writes code for each character typed which is stored when you save it in a file.%26quot;



It's not hard, just take out the unneeded information. (I advise against copying my examples, try to do it yourself and you'll get the hang of it.)Easiest way to summarize this info into 2- 3 paragraphs?
First hit the key pionts of this article. Actually three things are discussed here.



1 In paragraph 1 and 2, main item is how word processing application generates codes for different characters



2 In paragraph 3 %26amp; 4, mainly the information capacity of computer is discussed.



3 in paragraph 5, an example is practically depicted.



to summerize any thing just remember some some key points :



try to reduce it in one paragraph.

dont use any quotation or question.

write it in passive form.

try to avoid giving examples.



hope good luck for the project...

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