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Interesting.Pages
Priyavrat.Thareja
Metallurgical engineering Teacher, Engineer, alive to Societal dimensions. which are depicted in Priyavrat's work, projects undertaken, creative endeavors including Poems.
The following pages will take you entour the saga of poetic creativity integrating Metallurgical engineering, Management sciences, SHE (Safety Health and Environment) and even religiousness.
Writing expert Peter Elbow says: “Nothing is so powerful; as a chance to see your words through the eyes of others.”
To evaluate expository and nonfiction writing, he says in Writing with Power: Techniques for Mastering the Writing Process (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998), 252, criterion-based feedback can be useful.
Elbow suggests questions which can be used to assess four qualities in a piece of writing:
A) What is the quality of the content of the writing: the ideas, the perceptions, the point of view?
Is the basic idea or insight a good one?
Is it supported by logical reasoning or valid argument?
Is it supported by evidence and examples?
Is it really saying something or is it just a collection of thoughts or observations (however unified and well written) sitting there limply? Did the writer communicate why this whole thing matters?
B) Is there too much abstraction or generalization? So few details, examples, and explanations that it ends up dull, empty, impossible to experience? or perhaps even impossible to understand?
Is there too little abstraction and too much clutter of detail? Too little standing back for perspective? Too little forest per tree?
Does it do what it says or implies it is going to do? Does it satisfy the issues it raises?
Is there a point of view or is the writing just disembodied statements from nowhere? And is that point of view unified and consistent?
Is the piece fitted to its audience? Has the writer understood their needs and point of view?
How well is the writing organized?
Is the whole thing unified? Is there one central idea to which everything pertains? Or is it pulling in two or three directions or full of loose ends and digressions?
C) Are the parts arranged in a coherent or logical sequence?
Is there a beginning? That is, does it start off in a way that allows you to get comfortably started? (The safest and most common way of doing this is to give an introduction — for example, a quick explanation of what’s to come. But of course that’s not the only way. Indeed plunging the reader into the middle of things without warning can function as a good beginning.)
Is there a middle? A body, some girth or solidity, some sense of meat and potatoes, sufficiency? Or does it turn around and say good-bye almost as soon as it is finished saying hello?
Is there an ending? Does it give you a sense of closure or completion? (The safest and most common method of doing this is to end with a conclusion — not just repeating what went before but figuring out what everything means or adds up to. But again, that’s not the only good way to end a piece.)
Were the paragraphs really paragraphs? Could you tell what each one was saying? Did they function as helpful and comfortable units of thought: not too much to carry in your arms, but not so little that it feels like a wasted trip?
How effective is the language?
Are the sentences clear and readable?
Are the words used correctly?
D) Is it succinct enough for the purpose and audience? Not too long, repetitious, dull?
Is it full enough? Or does the writer squeeze out so much of the juice of human communication, the oil of actual spoken discourse, that the language, even if correct, is indigestible?
Does the diction, mood, or level of formality fit the audience and occasion?
Is the language alive, human, interesting? Either because of interesting metaphors or turns of phrase; or because of a voice or presence in the words — a sense of someone’s actually being there?
Are there mistakes or inappropriate choices of usage?
Are there mistakes in grammar, usage, spelling and typing?
Are there mistakes in footnotes, graphs, or other special effects?
Is it neat and easy to read on the page?
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I encountered a Quote: “We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.” Bertrand Russell (English Philosopher 1872-1970)
Strange, post Russell’s stance, the world has still not changed. The Paradox has not been charged at for possible correction.
In a study done on Women entrepreneurs in state of Punjab, North India, presented at a conference in Chandigarh ( 17- 19 Nov 2008, the findings were exactly similar and paradoxical. The Failure rate of graduate and post graduate women entrepreneurs was higher than those in literarte but lowly qualified.
Why? There could be several reasons. First indeed the strategic (stratified) sampling was wrong.
Attributing survey to errors like Less sample size or less appropriate data generation and analysis, and less recall of the Psychomotor skill deployment was weighted in post discussions. More over, given lack of data on use of technology and on manual skills could have large bearing as on the life/ age of entrepreneurial ventures.
Any ways, the fact that there is a lot to be done in promoting productive stimuli through education is farther off… And much of our current attempts are misguided. The imperatives of a good society of life as proposed by William Edward Deming are still away. Russel right pointed them long ago. The people at large haven’t noticed the paradox, if if they did, it continues to pass by from the sides.
Priyavrat Thareja
Excellence.Pages
What is Excellence?
Excellence is the unlimited ability to improve the quality of what you have to offer.quote Rick Pitino. While excellence can endure and sustain the motivation beyond the realms of inspiration, Excellence can act as strong and uniting force as solid vision.
Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way, (Booker T Washington 1856 ).
If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters,(Colin Powell ). So Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude, continues Powell.
Excellence does not happen in a vacuum. It needs a collective obsession. It is about going a little beyond what we expect from ourselves. No man ever reached to excellence in any one art or profession without having passed through the slow and painful process of study and preparation ( Horace).
Excellence is: What excellence does. Excellence is a great starting point for any new organisation but also an unending journey. The supreme excellence is not to win a hundred victories in a hundred battles. The supreme excellence is to subdue the armies of your enemies without even having to fight them.(Lao Tzu)” .However There are no speed limits on the road to excellence
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit. Part of the need for excellence is imposed on us externally by our customers. Our competition keeps us on our toes, especially when it is global in nature.
Excellence? Believe William Fowble: “If you chase perfection, you often catch excellence.”
So Keep trying. Alwaays Aim Higher.
Semper Sursum
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plan-do-check-act is a prescription to order performance. It is Quality, safety and nature oriented. mark the Q (capital vis-a-vis safety and nature. Capital Q denotes the “Conceptual approach).
Like Quality and safety, environmental management system (EMS) model too uses a plan-do-check-act approach. Alike quality management principles EMS and OSH-MS (Occupational safety, health safety management system) focus on continual improvement. Thanks to P_D_C_A the approach ensures that environmental matters are systematically identified, controlled and monitored.
THE EMS standard ISO 14001 has been developed and outlined by the International Organization of Standardisation (ISO) at Geneva, and provides a widely recognized set of principles and standards for integrating environmental management into quality control and other business activities.
An EMS model based on the “Plan, Do, Check, Act”is a set of management tools and principles designed to guide the allocation of resources, assignment of responsibilities and ongoing evaluation of practices, procedures and processes that a company needs to integrate environmental concerns into its daily business practices. Thus EMS works as a continual cycle of planning, implementing, reviewing and improving the processes and actions that an organization undertakes to meet its environmental obligations.
EMS development and implementation is expected to:
Improve environmental performance
Enhance compliance
Prevent pollution and conserve resources
Reduce/mitigate risks
Increase efficiency/reduce costs
Enhance public image with regulators, public, lenders, investors
Achieve/improve employee awareness of environmental issues and responsibilities
Qualify the site for recognition/incentive programs such as EPA’s Performance Track national environmental recognition program
A guide to implementing an EMS within your organization should teach:
How to develop an Environmental Policy and a formal analysis to gauge your organization’s current environmental programs;
How to identify the environmental aspects of the activities and services of an organization, determine which are potentially significant environmental impacts; and be able to establish environmental objectives and targets and management plans for achieving them;
How to implement necessary training, establish appropriate operational controls, and measure and monitor the activities associated with the significant environmental aspects;
How to determine methods for identifying and having access to environmental legal requirements applicable to your operations and be aware of the specific environmental laws and regulations applicable to aggregate operations;
How to implement the EMS elements of communication, documentation, document control, record keeping, and emergency preparedness and response; and
How to understand the compliance evaluation, EMS audit and management review elements
always aim higher.Pages
Challenges come and they are won! Read More
But that’s never the end of Journey.
God always test those who wanna demonstrate the endurance. For example, those who are truthful, are pressed into tiring moments, every moment prompting one to escape one’s skin through a lie, The problem will only come whwn it were most dreaded ( Yeah! This is Murphy’s law)