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Old 04-28-2008, 08:22 AM
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In the process of starting an essay which I have to hand in for 5 o' clock Thursday. The title is "Explain how a computer processes an audio singal". It's really busting my chops and am not really sure where to start. Any helpful resources or anything you guys know about?

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Just talk about bit depth and how it relates to AD and DA converters. Talk about converter algorithms, like hysteresis, and so on. If you can't make at least 3000 words out of that, you're doing something wrong.
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Old 04-28-2008, 12:03 PM
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In the process of starting an essay which I have to hand in for 5 o' clock Thursday. The title is "Explain how a computer processes an audio singal".
Hint #1: use your spell check. (I'm taking a free shot, but seriously, too many students don't bother to do this.)

As long as you understand the process, just sketch an outline of each step in the process as a guide for your thoughts, then start writing and explain your way from A through Z. Actually, 3,000 words isn't enough to cover it unless you're reasonably concise in your explanation.

IMO when you're done, if you could hand it to your mom and she'd understand it, then you've done well. (I'm real big on explaining things in simple, clear terms....but if your teacher wants everything in third person and passive voice, give him/her the flavor desired, regardless of how difficult to read the style makes it.)
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Old 04-28-2008, 12:26 PM
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Thanks guys. Thing is we didn't really cover this in our lectures ya know?I'm piecing this together from resources online and it's hard to when you knwo nothing about it!
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Go to the LIBRARY.

They have BOOKS. They're kind of like essays and/or websites, but written by people who know what they're talking about. They collect all the good information in one place. Clearly you were expected to do some research on this, and teachers are WAY more impressed if you cite a couple of books, rather than websites.

To avoid plagiarism get a couple of books, either draw your own diagrams or STATE WHERE THEY CAME FROM EXPLICITLY, and cite the books at the end of your essay. A good piece of advice is never too write with the book open or a web page on screen, then you can't copy section verbatim, or even closely adapt. Always cite, and write in your own words.

For an essay like this you should avoid the big long block of text approach - that's fine for "what I did at the weekend", but you need to break it down. D/A's, sample rate, bit depth, compression, effects, A/D's etc Each organised into sections and subsections. Write out your section headings FIRST, and get them all in order and making sense. Then just fill in the text later.

Lot of diagrams...

Here's a bone for you:
@article{nyquist,
Author = {Harry Nyyquist},
Journal = {Trans. AIEE},
Month = {April},
Pages = {617--644},
Title = {Certain topics in telegraph transmission theory},
Volume = {47},
Year = {1928}}
Bung that in your bibliography...

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