issue7 米国有米寒假小组10日作业

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TOPIC: ISSUE7 - "The video camera provides such an accurate and convincing record of contemporary life that it has become a more important form of documentation than written records."
WORDS: 529          TIME: 0:46:52          DATE: 2007-2-10

After thousands of years that documentation is dominated by the written form, the video camera, available in the modern technology, provides another means in recording contemporary life. As an innovative technology, video camera has its merit in documentation that the written records never have. However, I believe, the video camera would be a supplementary mean to written records, rather than a substitute one.

Admittedly, video camera utilized in documentation has merits in accurately recording sounds and moving images. People used to record sound by the limited resemble words in their languages. The sound recorded is only an approximation to what can be pronounced by human mouth. However, the diversity of sound required that more accurate description needed more words created to simulate the sound. Unfortunately, the more different words are used to approximate the sound, the less are many of them used by human being. But the less are this sound-resemble words are used, the less accuracy of these words are preserved. Therefore, there is a limit of accuracy in approximating sound. On the another size, thought people used to draw to record images, and the accuracy can be sufficient in documentation purpose, pictures documentation is consuming in time, storage mediate, and storage space. Moreover, the limited people at one time are able to record in sufficient accuracy. Thus, the advent of video camera largely overcomes the shortcoming in writing records. It provided an economic way to record sound and image containing a very good level of details, it is easy to be stored but with no less vulnerability, and need no state-of-art skills required talented persons a long time to acquire.

However, video camera does not necessarily more convincing than the written records. We usually are skeptical in material of written records because we know that writers might have their reason and purpose to lie, or writers were limited by their knowledge and information access so that they were no able to record the complete and consistent facts. However, video camera is not immune from this defective. Firstly, video camera, as an invention complex enough for general public to fully understand its operation but lacks of superior complexity for a large number expert to manipulate, is technically feasible to be counterfeited, in particular when it is a recognized trend that video camera is switching to one built upon digital technology. Secondly, the extent to which video camera can recording the most important content also depends on its operator or director. Though a scene can contain more information than a thin book, it does not mean that the information is useful or that it contains critical information in the event or staff required to be recorded. For example, two same video cameras recording an Olympic game should have different values for documentation. A director or operator who video graphing an event of contemporary life but lack of the sensitivity to the vital element of the events may provide little value in documentation and even is misleading.

In sum, video camera though is a good form in decimation, is not a substitution for written recording. Written records are expected to function in recording human life as well as wisdom in the foreseeable future.

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issue7 米国有米寒假小组10日作业
TOPIC: ISSUE7 - "The video camera provides such an accurate and convincing record of contemporary life that it has become a more important form of documentation than written records."
WORDS: 529          TIME: 0:46:52          DATE: 2007-2-10

After thousands of years that documentation is dominated by the written form, the video camera, available in the modern technology, provides another means in recording contemporary life. As an innovative technology, video camera has its merit[merits] in documentation that the written records never have. However, I believe, the video camera would be a supplementary mean to written records, rather than a substitute one.[开头不错]

Admittedly, video camera utilized in documentation has merits in accurately recording sounds and moving images. People used to record sound by the limited resemble words in their languages. The sound recorded is only an approximation to what can be pronounced by human mouth. However, the diversity of sound required that more accurate description needed more words created to simulate the sound. Unfortunately, the more different words are used to approximate the sound, the less are many of them used by human being. [这句话没有理解]But the less are this sound-resemble words are used, the less accuracy of these words are preserved. Therefore, there is a limit of accuracy in approximating sound. On the another size, thought people used to draw to record images, and the accuracy can be sufficient in documentation purpose, pictures documentation is consuming in time, storage mediate, and storage space. Moreover, the limited people at one time are able to record in sufficient accuracy. Thus, the advent of video camera largely overcomes the shortcoming in writing records. It provided an economic way to record sound and image containing a very good level of details, it is easy to be stored but with no less vulnerability, and need no state-of-art skills required talented persons a long time to acquire.[如果有例子就好了，另外层级结构上还要多注意连贯]

However, video camera does not necessarily more convincing than the written records. We usually are skeptical in material of written records because we know that writers might have their reason and purpose to lie, or writers were limited by their knowledge and information access so that they were no able to record the complete and consistent facts. However, video camera is not immune from this defective. Firstly, video camera, as an invention complex enough for general public to fully understand its operation but lacks of superior complexity for a large number expert to manipulate[这里太长了], is technically feasible to be counterfeited, in particular when it is a recognized trend that video camera is switching to one built upon digital technology. Secondly, the extent to which video camera can recording the most important content also depends on its operator or director. Though a scene can contain more information than a thin book, it does not mean that the information is useful or that it contains critical information in the event or staff required to be recorded. For example, two same video cameras recording an Olympic game should have different values for documentation. A director or operator who video graphing an event of contemporary life but lack of the sensitivity to the vital element of the events may provide little value in documentation and even is misleading.[这段作者所提出的理由我不是很赞同，因为VIDIO可以被伪造，书面的也是可以的，不足以表明书面的在这方面比他好]

In sum, video camera though is a good form in decimation, is not a substitution for written recording. Written records are expected to function in recording human life as well as wisdom in the foreseeable future.

[从全文来说 ，结构清楚，但在论证过程中还需要加强连贯性和语言表达]