EUW/UUW 212: UNIVERSITY ENGLISH

UVW 312: ENGLISH FOR TECHNICAL COMMUNICATION

ANSWER KEY- MIDTERM PRACTICE

SECTION A:

1. T

2. F

3. F

4. T

5. T

6. F

7. F

8. F

9. F

10. F

Section B:

1. Context, message, audience, purpose, product. (State FOUR only)

2. Listing/ Outlining/ Mindmapping ( State TWO only)

3. Editing: Check the length and types of sentences/ use language that is appropriate for your

audience/ avoid overused words/ check for clarity, completeness and tone.

Proofreading: Check for general content errors as well as mechanical errors such as misspelled

words, incorrect spacing, punctuation, and so on.

4.Question that give people a limited number of choices.

Types: Importance questions/ Likert-scale questions/ Dichotomous questions/ Semantic

Differential/ Rating-Scale question. (State TWO types only)

5. Primary sources: unsolicited inquiries/ interviews/ survey/ experiments/ observation.

Secondary sources: Books/ journals/ websites/ online databases/ etc.

6. Leading/ Presuming questions, Sensitive question, Hypothetical question/ Double-barreled

questions.

E.g.: Dont you think that education should be made free for all students? (Presuming question)

Please state your current CGPA: _______________ (Sensitive question)

If you were the President of Student Council at your university, what changes would you make?

( Hypothetical question)

How would you rate the price and the quality of food provided at your hostel? (double-barreled)

7. Give TWO advantages each for close-ended and open-ended questions.

Closed-ended: 1) easy to tabulate the data 2) quick to be answered.

Open-ended: 1) Giving freedom to respondents to write answer. 2) Honest responses

8. Attractiveness, Emphasis, Clarity, Conciseness (State TWO only)

9. a) avoid long wordy questions

b) arrange the questions according to the level of difficulties.

c) write clear instruction

d) minimize bias

e) avoid asking question that has to rely on memory

(refer to Chapter 4, page 33)

10. Proposal report is an attempt to persuade the readers to accept a solution or suggestion for

solving a problem, meeting a need or improving the situation.

E.g.: Internal/ external/ solicited/ unsolicited (State TWO only)