Eng 201 Assignment 4 solution

Spring 2011

Assignment # 4                                                                                           Total Marks: 15

Due Date: July 01, 2011

Objectives:

To asses students’ understanding and to motivate them in conceptual knowledge and practical application of the subject.

Instructions

1. Late assignments will not be accepted.
2. If the file is corrupt or problematic, it will be marked zero.
3. Plagiarism will never be tolerated. Plagiarism occurs when a student uses work done by someone else as if it was his or her own; however, taking the ideas from different sources and to express it in your own words will be encouraged.
4. If any assignment is found copied work, no marks will be awarded and the case may be referred to the head of the department for disciplinary action.
5. No assignment will be accepted via e-mail.
6. The file should be in Word doc form; the font color should be preferably black and font size can be 12 Times New Roman.

Question No.1                                                                                                           (10)

As a Marketing Manager of Mellow Beverage Company, you have to introduce your latest soft drink to Cafeteria Administration, University of Management and Technology Lahore. You have to make use of at least three Visual Aids to reinforce your viewpoint. What sort of Visual aids will you   to make your presentation more persuasive? Give at least three reasons for selecting these aids.                    

Visual Aids: Moreover good business ethics demand you chose a form of visual aid that will not mislead your audience.

As a Marketing Manager of Mellow Beverage Company, I ll  employ following Visual aids to make presentation more persuasive

Pictographs:

Reason to adopt : Pictographs are a special kind of bar graph in which the bars are replaced by drawings that represent the thing being described. The chief advantage of the pictograph is that it uses drawings to symbolize concretely the quantities you are talking about in your graph. You will find pictographs especially useful where you want to do one or both of the following: • Emphasize the practical consequences of the data represented. • Make your data visually interesting and memorable.

Pie Charts

Reason to adopt : Pie charts are unsurpassed in their ability to depict the composition of a whole. For example, to show how much each of several food sources contributes to the total amount of dietary fat consumed by the average American.

Budget statements:

Reason to adopt :A budget statement is a table that shows how money will be gained or spent. It may be very simple or very elaborate depending on your reader’s needs. On the job, you can use budget statements in the following situations: • To explain the expenses involved with a project purchase • To summarize the savings to be realized by following a recommendation you are making • To report the costs that have been incurred by a project for which you have responsibility • To explain the sources of revenue associated with some project or activity.

Question No.2                                                                                                            (5)       

Choose the adjective modifiers, adverb modifiers and dangling modifiers from the given paragraph. 

Elizabeth, who just wanted a quick lunch to reach her office to attend an urgent meeting, quickly dropped her fork on the dining table. She had to drive the car speedily to reach her office in time. She saw an accident driving down the road which made her a bit more upset. When she reached her office, freshly painted, John, the painter, left the room to dry. She opened the door lazily, put her purse on the table and sat in the chair.

Adjective modifiers :

Quick lunch

urgent meeting,

dining table.

Adverb modifiers:

quickly dropped

drive the car speedily

freshly painted,

opened the door lazily

Dangling modifiers:

, who

which