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Does this paragraph sound alright?
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Trung Chinh Nguyen
2006-04-27 15:55:20 UTC
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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
Miss Elaine Eos
2006-04-28 15:13:59 UTC
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Post by Trung Chinh Nguyen
Hi, I am a third year student studying Computer Science at the
The word choice sounds ok, but I'd change the punctuation a bit. See
below.
Post by Trung Chinh Nguyen
"Since the evolution of computer science, digital images have become
widely used. But in many cases, the sizes of the images are much bigger
widely used but, in many cases, the sizes of the images are much bigger

If the long sentence bothers you, then try

widely used. In many cases, the sizes of the images are much bigger
Post by Trung Chinh Nguyen
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
Either "just" or "simply", but not "just simply." I'd use

contents of the document containing it. Many applications simply
Post by Trung Chinh Nguyen
ignore that problem or solve it with a simple resization. This project
ignore that problem or solve it with by resizing the image.
Post by Trung Chinh Nguyen
aims to solve the problem in a better way. By analysing the information
Not so much a grammar/word-choice problem, but one of weak writing
style: rather than say "...in a better way", perhaps try "...in a way
that eliminates <whatever the problem is, which is unclear, at this
point.>"
Post by Trung Chinh Nguyen
in the image and then applying wavelet transforms, I am expecting to
Change to "By analyzing the image and then applying...", "the
information in the image" is redundant.
Post by Trung Chinh Nguyen
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
Change the 2nd sentence to say "...in many cases, the size of the image
is much bigger than..."
Post by Trung Chinh Nguyen
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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Nguyen Trung Chinh
2006-04-29 11:57:53 UTC
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Thank you very much for your help :)

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