NOTE: Each correction is justified by a section in the 5.2 -- English Usage section of the CS5014 course notes.
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/QNM's (Queueing Network Models)/Queueing Network Models (QNMs)/
[See 4.1 and 5.1]
OPTIONAL: /Abrams'/Abrams's/ [See 5.1]
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/Kleinrocks/Kleinrock's/ [See 5.1]
/contain/contains/ [See 3.6.1]
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/wait/waits/ [See 3.6. Note that "set" (not "customers") is the
subject of "waits".]
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/Customers waiting for a bus./customers waiting for a bus;/ [See 4.4]
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/Packets awaiting transmission in a network./packets awaiting
transmission in a network; or/ [Eliminates fragment: See 3.2 and 4.4]
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/Jobs/jobs/ [See 4.4]
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/one/1/ [See 4.5]
Better:/showed/shows/ [See 6.1]
Best: /showed/contains/ [See 6.8]
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/how much time/the time that/ [See 4.3]
[Note: achieves parallelism between "the ... discipline, the time, and a
...variable]
/so---called/so-called/ [See 5.4]
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/[IAT]/(IAT)/ [See 5.6, 5.7]
Better: /customer that/customer, that/ [See 5.3.2]
Best: /customer that/customer/ ["Avoid needless words"]
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/is called the service time/(the service time)/ [4.3, "Avoid needless words"]
[Note: achieves parallelism between "(the so-called interarrival time
(IAT))" and "(the service time)".]
/queue which/queue, which/ [See 5.3.2]
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/servers if/servers, if/ [See 5.3.2]
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/queue in a line/queue/ [Eliminates redundant words.]
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/queue consider/queue, consider/ [See 5.3.1]
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/"What/What/ [See 5.3.5]
/transmission"./transmission?/ [See 5.3.5]
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/choice/choose/ [See 6.1]
/size. (ie we/size (e.g., we/ [See 5.3.2; also 5.3.2 explains
e.g. vs. i.e.]
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/mean.) We/mean). We/ [See 5.3.2]
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/; and the/; the/ [See 5.8 and 5.3.3]
[or: /; and the/, and the/]
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/QT [queueing theory]/queueing theory (QT)/ [See 5.6 and 5.7]
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/in the queue/in a queue/ [Distinguish indefinite and definite articles.]
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Line 1: /formulas/formula/ [Article [i.e., "a"] and noun must agree in number.] Line 4: /exponential/exponentially/ [See 3.4] Line 7: /. $\rho$/. Thus $\rho$/ [Note: Accept any legal correction in which $\rho$ does not start a sentence.] Line 10 (formula (1)): Add a period to the end of the formula. Line 11: /0.5 which/0.5, which/ /queue. Thus/queue, then/ [Eliminate fragment -- See 3.2] [Note: Any solution to eliminate the fragment ending in "queue." is o.k.] Line 13: /0.25 which/0.25, which/ [See 5.3.2] Line 14: /1/2, this/1/2; this/ [Eliminate comma splice -- See 3.3 [or /1/2, this tells/1/2, telling/ [See 3.3 (comma splice)] Line 15: /is according to equation (1)/is, according to equation (1),/ [See 5.3.2] Line 16: EITHER /bytes then/bytes, then/ [See 4.5] OR /then on the average/then, on the average,/ /Either 2 or 4/A size that is either two or four/ [Note: Any correction that avoids the fragment and changes 2 or 4 to words is acceptable.] Line 17: /are/is/ [See 3.6.1] /-/--/ /me/me./ ["Me" is correct case of apposition - see 3.5 and 3.5.2]