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SECTION A INTRODUCTION & DOCUMENTATION

PART I: Recognising Information Elements

Below you will see a selection of paragraphs taken from several reports. Write the
appropriate sub-section of the I NTRODUCTI ON: Background, Objective, Scope or
Organisation on the line provided.


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The goal of this study is to understand usability
problems of three heating control interfaces, especially
those issues which may lead to increase energy
consumption.





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While investigating these two computers, it was
important to consider their suitability for corporate use,
standard features, optional benefits and warranties.




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Virtual reality (VR) equipment simulators have been
gaining acceptance since they were introduced in
military, aerospace, automobile and ship industries as
tools not only for reducing high cost of product design
and training, but also for real-time decision making and
process evaluation of equipment operation.







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All testing and inspections were performed according
to the manufacturer and InterNational Electrical
Testing Association (NETA) recommendations.




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5.

This report has five sections in which the context for
the research, the rationale for its undertaking, the
methodology used, the findings presented and the data
analysed and discussed.





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The research aims to contribute to the development of a
virtual reality construction excavator simulator system
by proposing a mathematical model of excavator
digging and a calculation methodology.





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Tyre waste is composed of ingredients that are non-
degradable in nature in normal conditions and usually
produce environmental problems.




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8. The purpose of this study is to address how media
gratification variables and constraints of global system
for mobile communications (GSM) technology
promote or inhibit use of short messaging services
(SMS) for sharing educational information by students
in Malaysian universities.





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It is necessary to find relations between live stem
parameters deviations and fuel expenditure to impartial
comparing of automation means among themselves.
These relations are shown in section 3.





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The mobile phone was invented in 1973, but its size,
efficiency, power economy and low-cost small packet
exchange technology and others, have made its
penetration and diffusion the fastest, in comparison
with other technologies (Leung, 2007).





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PART II: Documentation
(a) Paraphrase and document the following information to show the emphasis on the
information or the author.

(b) Write the correct references based on the sources given.

Example of an APA reference:
Article in a book:
Duck, M. & Read, R. (2003). Data communications and computer networks: For computer
scientists and engineers (2
nd
ed.). Harlow, England: Prentice Hall.

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There are many advantages to becoming computer literate, that is, understanding
more about the capabilities and limitations of computers. Doing so can help you
manage computer annoyances like unwanted e-mails, which are called spam. You
will also know how to upgrade your system to the latest standards such as wireless
Bluetooth technology.


Authors : Alan Evans, Kendall Martin and Mary Anne Poatsy
Year : 2012
Title : Complete Technology in Action (8
th
ed.)
Place : Nevada, USA
Publisher : Prentice Hall





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Hybrid electric vehicle (HEV) technology presents an excellent way to reduce
petroleum consumption through efficiency improvements. HEVs use energy
storage systems combined with electric motors to improve vehicle efficiency by
enabling engine downsizing and recapturing energy normally lost during braking
events. A typical HEV will reduce gasoline consumption by about 30% over a
comparable conventional vehicle.


Authors : Aaron Brooker, Matthew Thornton and John Rugh
Year : 2010
Title : Technology Improvement Pathways to Cost-effective Vehicle
Electrification (Chapter in book: Green Technologies and the Mobility
Industry, pp. 35-48)
Editor : Andrew Brown
Place : Warrendale, USA
Publisher : SAE International


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SECTION B PROCESS & RESULTS
PART 1: Error Analysis
The following is an article titled High-Tech Trash. It contains 10 errors in the use of
Tenses. Identify these errors and correct them.
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June is the wet season in Ghana, but here in Accra, the capital, the morning rain has
ceased. As the sun heated the humid air, pillars of black smoke begin to rise above the vast
Agbogbloshie Market. I followed one plume toward its source, past lettuce and plantain
vendors, past stalls of used tires, and through a clanging scrap market where hunched men
bashed on old alternators and engine blocks. Soon the muddy track is flanked by piles of old
TVs, gutted computer cases, and smashed monitors heaped ten feet (three meters) high.
People have always been proficient at making trash. Future archaeologists will note
that at the tail end of the 20th century, a new, noxious kind of clutter has exploded across the
landscape: the digital detritus that had come to be called e-waste.
More than 40 years ago, Gordon Moore, co-founder of the computer-chip maker Intel,
observes that computer processing power roughly doubles every two years. An unstated
corollary to Moore's law is that at any given time, all the machines considered state-of-the-
art are simultaneously on the verge of obsolescence. The memory and graphics requirements
of Microsofts recent Vista operating system, for instance, spelled doom for aging machines
that were still able to squeak by a year ago. According to the U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency, an estimated 30 to 40 million PCs will be ready for end-of-life management in
each of the next few years.
Computers are hardly the only electronic hardware hounded by obsolescence. A
switchover to digital high-definition television broadcasts is scheduled to be complete by
2009, rendering inoperable TVs that functioned perfectly today but receive only an analog
signal. As viewers prepare for the switch, about 25 million TVs are taken out of service
yearly. In the fashion-conscious mobile market, 98 million U.S. cell phones take their last call
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in 2005. If all sources of electronic waste are tallied, it could total 50 million tons a year
worldwide. So what happens to all this junk?
In the United States, it is estimated that more than 70 percent of discarded computers
and monitors, and well over 80 percent of TVs, eventually end up in landfills, despite a
growing number of state laws that prohibited dumping of e-waste, which may leak lead,
mercury, arsenic, cadmium, beryllium, and other toxics into the ground.
Many governments, conscious that electronic waste wrongly handled damages the
environment and human health, had tried to weave an international regulatory net. The 1989
Basel Convention, a 170-nation accord, requires that developed nations notify developing
nations of incoming hazardous waste shipments. Environmental groups and many
undeveloped nations called the terms too weak, and in 1995 protests lead to an amendment
known as the Basel Ban, which forbids hazardous waste shipments to poor countries.
Source: Carroll, C. (2008). High-tech trash. Retrieved from http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2008/01/high-tech-
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PART II: Faulty Parallelisms
The following extract contains 10 errors in parallelism. Identify these errors and correct them
as shown in the example.
They say home is where when you go they have to take you in. I rather prefer home is when
you could go anywhere. Home is the place you prefer to be. I don't think of a home as a
house, which is another thing I don't own. Certainly, though, I do live in a house that I have
made my home. I won't even pretend living on the streets, to be asleep in public parks,
washing up at the bus or train station, eating out of garbage cans is a valid alternative to
bedrooms, bathrooms, and kitchens whiffing good smells every time the furnace blows. But I
also readily concede if there is no love a building will not compensate.
The true joy, perhaps, of being a Black American is that we really have no home. Europeans
bought us; but we were sold by the Africans. If we are to be human we must forgive both or
neither. It has become acceptable, in the last decade or so, for intellectuals to concede Black
Americans did not come here of our own volition; yet, I submit that just as slavery took away
our choice so also did the overcrowded, disease-ridden cities of Europe; so also was religious
persecution; so also did the abject and all but unspeakable inquisition of the Spanish; so also
did starvation in Italy; so also did the black, rotten potatoes lying in the fields of Ireland. No
one came to the New World in a cruise ship. They all came because they had to. They were
poor and criminals who were hungry, persecuted individuals who would rather chance
dropping off the ends of the earth than to stay inert knowing both their body and spirit were
slowly having the life squeezed from them. Whether it was a European booking passage on a
boat, a slave chained to a ship, a sailcloth covered wagon, they all headed toward the
unknown with all nonessentials stripped away.
A pioneer has only two things: a deep desire to survive and an equally strong will to be alive.
Home is not the place where our possessions and all that we have accomplished are deposited
and displayed. It is this earth that we have explored, viewing the heaven with awe, these
humans who, despite the flaws, we try to love and those who try to love us. It is the
willingness to pioneer the one trek we all can make no matter what our station or where we
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are located in life. It is the existential reality, the blissful truth, and the awakening so
meaningful that wherever there is life, wherever there is love then there is Home.
Source: Giovanni, N. (2007). Home. Retrieved from
http://grammar.about.com/od/shortpassagesforanalysis/a/giovannipass07.htm


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SECTION C CONCLUSION & RECOMMENDATIONS
Writing Conclusion & Recommendations

You are writing a project report on the usage of cellular phones among Universiti Teknikal
Malaysia Melaka (UTeM) students.

Re-arrange the following notes and write a one-paragraph conclusion. You should include
logical recommendations in your paragraph.

Primary data collected randomly distributing questionnaires 350 students
Usage of cellular phones more preferred convenient to users
Objective investigate students preference service providers and plans
peripherals offered cellular service providers
Findings Simax top service provider in UTeM better network coverage pre-
paid plan most popular choice peripheral - SMS - most popular means of
communication more economical making calls
Limitation findings only true UTeM students cannot be generalised other
university students
Implications the results indicate - cost and network coverage important factors
influence students choice selecting hand phone service provider plans
peripherals

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