 కానివర్ు వ్నా నినార్నినిని నికొిన్త్త్్తిన్తిదికారిలాసకిబార్నిన్ంచిందిని.ప్.న్లిల్త్తాటుి.నిస్నింది.నింతసంటికింటి.ప If you want to write in one place only, that is your choice. You can write in any one place in a column. So in each row you will get the total of errors here. You total it, write up to 0.4. And write my total is total here. That is our choice. How many of you have not brought the sheet containing proof-editing symbols with you? They are not brought. So many of you. Some of you seem to be under the impression that the handouts are of ornamental value to be kept with your covers. Now those of you who haven't brought the sheet with them, I presume that either you have learnt those symbols by heart, which is unlikely in some cases. So I suggest that you look at the labour sheet for the time being. Each one of you has a notebook specifically devoted to this course or not yet. How many of you have a combined notebook in which you take notes for various subjects? And you raise your hands with me. So how in the month of March you will be able to locate what was discussed in the fourth lecture of K course? There are a few such students. This simple database indexing. You will have data in that. Index 5 is all corrupted. It happens with human memory. If you enforce it under paper memory also, it is very unlikely. So please ensure that an extra notebook is not very costly. I don't care what you do for other courses. I would still suggest that thin notebooks, but different notebooks for different subjects are useful. I will follow it from the next time. Which means that whatever notes you have taken for the first two lectures, you have to be meticulously copying what you have done in the notebook. There is no substitute. Or take a Xerox of whatever notes you have taken. Keep them at once. All right. So all yours. Next, you will have to read the text carefully. So now we have spent so much time in sitting arrangement and announcements, etc. Please do not rush up with your thread. Read the passage very carefully. It's a plain English passage. There are mistakes of the time that we all made. You have to correct those mistakes using the proof-ability symbols and count the errors in each line. He has suggested that you roughly imagine the text to be in two columns. But if you can count all of them and put the number against the line number, that is also okay. If only you can catch all the errors in the first term, you would deserve a clap by the entire class. In last several years, we did not unfortunately have such an occasion. Let us see if this batch has some bright behavior. Many of you are towards the last half of the lines or less than that. Okay. We will give another five to seven minutes. This is important. So please do it as soon as possible. Just checking it once again, I suppose. Remaining people, please. I don't want to rush you up, but please do it as quickly as possible. We still have another three-four minutes before we start discussing. Yeah. This is not a discussion assignment. We have to do it individually. There would be occasions when we will require you to discuss among yourselves and do that, which of course results in better correction. But right now, it is expected that you attend individually. We still have three more minutes. So those of you who have completed might want to, once again, do the passing as if you are reading for the first time and try to see if you have missed out on something. Ideally, we would like to achieve perfection where everybody catches every error. Okay. I guess we'll have to close it. I'll just give you one minute. Instead of finding any new errors, those of you who have not written the counts against each line at the bottom, please fill up the count quickly because that count is going to be entered by the TAs online and will find the class averages and everything immediately, which you will be able to see. So please do the count quickly. I'll request the TAs after one minute to collect all of them. You have to write the count at the bottom table against every line number again. Okay. Everybody is done? Anybody still counting, please raise your hand. Oh, my God. Count doesn't take long yet. Okay. I will request TAs to kindly collect all the submissions. You can see why I don't have to depend upon attendance to your fingerprint etc. What you submit is your attendance. Of course, don't get fancy ideas to submit two or three sheets simultaneously. All right. All sheets collected. Anybody whose paper has not been collected, your TA is abstaining. Just submit the sheet right now. Discussions later. None of you are doing any innovation in logistics handling. You know what is the fastest way of this collection? All people sitting in a row pass their papers to one end and the TA just travels in a single line at one end. None of you thought of it. TAs did not think of it. We are trying to optimize time in a classroom where the time of so many people is involved. Every second counts. But what I was noticing is everybody was sitting like a ganapati till a TA approaches and then he will consentedly pick up a sheet and give it to you. This is terrible. You have to handle logistics as efficiently as possible. In fact, many of you might actually do entrepreneurial activities based on logistics optimization later. You can't do that unless you optimize it anyway. Now before I hand over to Mr. Prakash Menthe I would like to just mention one question I want to ask you before he begins his explanation. This was just one sheet of text and you spent exactly 20 minutes correcting it. Agreeably, the proof-editing symbols which were new would have consumed some part of your thinking time. But most of it was to identify errors in the text. Now how many of you in the past have spent 20 minutes on a single page of your writing for any report in your life earlier? I would submit none of you would have. Only abstract one. So he is further optimizing his time. He believes that 90% of the people reading his paper will read only the abstracts and therefore he can sense some abstract correction but at least that is good. The point I am making is this is exactly one very sharp difference between all Indian researchers and professionals and the people from the development. They are not writer. They do not necessarily do better work. They perhaps articulate a bit better but they spent enormous amount of time in ensuring that there is no error in their written article. Now if you want to catch up with the world this is something that you have to imbue in your mind and heart. There is no shortcut. Why I say this is later on when you submit your seminar and R&D report or any such report throughout the semester you will be working on it but you would not set aside 7 full days of working time to correct what you have written. You will not. The report will be written 2 days before the final submission and it will be so horrible. I do not know how many of you are aware of the M.Tech examinations that we should evaluate typically people who submit lousy reports lose at least one grade because of the lousiness in the report. Nobody gives a damn as to how well the work is. If it is not well presented you lose one grade. So this is a practical aspect of life even in the evaluation. As you lose one grade in the M.Tech first stage, second stage evaluation because of this imagine what would you lose in your professional life people have lost business opportunities because of badly articulated. So now I will request Prakash to identify this but please remember one thing right now plan whenever you plan to write a report you will aside let's say I will take 3 days to write a report 50% of that time minimum must be additional allocated in your planning to correct whatever you have written 50% of the time that you take for writing minimum it could be more and it does not matter whether you use these proof editing symbols or not it is just reading correcting errors which is important since we are short of time we will only analyze the first few lines and then we will continue in the next class but just now does everybody remember how many errors you had detected yourself or somebody doesn't remember how many detected between 0 to 10 errors or 1 to 10 which is 0 because somebody might anybody has detected up to 10 errors only less than 10 errors everybody has detected more than 10 errors then 11 to 20 11 to 20 very large number 21 to 30 another very large number same people are not these are the joint proofs by the way how many 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 what even onwards anyway 1, 2, 3 good so many people have really done well the actual count may be onwards it will count in here you can see many people are close and 0 to 10 nobody is there but 11 to 20 and 21 to 30 there are a lot of people so we have to be careful can we put this up everything we will put on the model we will just upload it on the model we will put another image data what I want you to do is something more take the PDF file and you would have identified most of the errors so it will be fresh in your mind so try to re-look at it even after this explanation try to re-look at the whole sheet and see whether you can identify those errors it's a good exercise so the master will explain next time so that people who haven't got those errors they will catch up let me just tell you the summary of your assignment let me do the honour this summary of your assignment submission is not about errors that you have made in writing it is about the style of writing and submission so for example a4 size was described 10 people have not submitted their assignments on a4 sheet can those 10 friends raise your hands please 1, 2, 3, 4 so why is it that you could not locate a4 size paper you are careless there are number of pages I said one or at most two but there are some people who have written larger number of pages that is good because they have more to write but the point is that in any communication for that communication to be effective it should also be as concise as possible without losing the charm of your story so writing something within one or two pages is also enough even if you have a longer story there was a clear cut instruction that you should write only on one side of the paper as many as 28 people have written on both sides can those 28 friends raise their hands I think there is something drastically wrong because either you don't read instructions or you couldn't care less if there are instructions you will follow your own mind dictionary this is okay it's a free world but do not expect to be rewarded in your profession if you follow your free world instruction there is a certain discipline that is expected in any activity either don't participate in that activity or if you participate, comply with it I will tell you another thing I have been a performance expert and half the time when we noticed a performance problem and went to analyze there we found out that people had not read either the Oracle database manual or the Linux manual and had not complied with very specific instructions given on what parameters to set for this kind of people don't read and follow start time and end time is not mentioned by several people duration was not asked but some people on their own they have written the duty but start time and end time was mandatory not for any information to be sought by me it is for your own records now what it means is another very very what should I say sad aspect of our societal shortcoming we do not record things our history is written by others we don't write diaries we don't write so record keeping or history maintenance is something that again has to be inculcated in ourselves there were three things which are not prescribed deliberate it was not prescribed that you should leave margin on the left hand side when you write only seven people have left good margin others have not they have written A4 size means full from left corner to right corner only seven people have used ruled paper although it was not prescribed it is not essential but you will all agree having written that one page in handwriting if you have a ruled paper your lines don't go diagonally or vertically or something like that they generally are horizontal duration as he said mentioned only by twelve people but that's all now this is not about the quality of writing this is about the format of writing and I'll end by saying that please I'll repeat what I said earlier please do not confuse one for the other both are important both are vital the quality of writing as well as form of writing one is not a substitute for other we'll stop with this we'll continue so my ideas have done minimum errors found at seven maximum errors found at fifty-five I would like to know whether we have missed out on two errors our people were so enthusiastic to find errors but the average error form says 22.6 and that should be a cause of concern for all of us now this is not something which should be done in isolation by an individual that is why I will be putting up this on the website I would suggest that two or three of you in a group at least ten minutes in discussing only those errors which you have not found so that you know exactly where your mind based reading some and then we'll continue these discussions for one more time thank you