INSTITUTE OF BUSINESS, SCIENCE AND MEDICAL ARTS INC.
GE 10
TECHNICAL WRITING
FINAL EXAMINATION
Name:___________________________________
Course & Year
:___________________________
I.
Date:____________
Score:
/40
Identification: Identify the following graphic/visual aids. Write your answer on the space provided before the number.
(1pt each)
1.
6.
2.
7.
3.
A
8.
4.
9.
5.
10.
II.
In-text Citation: Find and correct the errors in the following in-text citations according to APA rules. (1pt each) Write your
corrections on the space before the number.
III.
Citation/Referencing: Write a list of references for an essay from the information given below. (2 pts each)
1.
We don't know who wrote this newspaper article. It was in the Guardian newspaper on Saturday November 6th this year. The
title is: Divorced couple fight for frozen embryos. It is on page 18
2.
Someone called Andy Gillett wrote this web page, which is very useful, and he worked at the University of Hertfordshire. It
was published on May 6th this year. The title is: Using English for Academic purposes. The URL is http://www.uefap.com/ and
I copied some information from it for this exercise on Sunday November 7th at 11.00 at night.
3.
This was published in 1991 in Oxford and is a book by Professor John Sinclair. The title of the book is: Corpus, concordance
and collocation and the publisher was Oxford University press.
4.
This small book is called: learning purpose and language use. It was written by Henry George Widdowson and published in
1983. Like all his books it was published in Oxford by Oxford University Press.
5.
This newspaper article was written by Jane Martinson in New York. The title of the article is: Microsoft faces defining moment,
and it was in the Guardian on page 10 on Saturday November 6th, 1999.
6.
This book, like many dictionaries, does not say who wrote it. The title is: Collins COBUILD English language dictionary and it
was published in 1987 by HarperCollins in London.
7.
An article in the journal: Applied linguistics. It was written in 1985 by E Bialystock and M Sharwood-Smith. The title of the
article is: Interlanguage is not a state of mind: An evaluation of the construct for second-language acquisition. It was
published in volume 6 and it is from page 101 to page 117.
8.
An article in a collection of articles edited by John Lyons. The title of the article is: the study of language acquisition, and it
was written by Robin Campbell and Roger Wales. It was on pages 242 to 260. The book of articles was called: new horizons
in linguistics and it was published in 1970 by Penguin in London.
9.
An article by Robert Cooper called: What do we learn when we learn a language? It was published in 1970 in the journal
TESOL Quarterly. It is on pages 303-314 in volume 4.
10. A very important book written in 1965 byW F Mackey. It was called: Language teaching analysis. It was published in London
by Longman.
11. A book written by Noam Chomsky, who was professor of linguistics at MIT in Cambridge Massachusetts. It was written in
1965 and the title of the book is: Aspects of the theory of syntax. It was published by his own university.
12. A book by Lyle F Bachman and Adrian S Palmer written in 1996. The title is: Language testing in practice. It is published by
Oxford University Press in Oxford.