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EPC 550 TECHNICAL WRITING
EDITING AND PROOFREADING TEST
MAY 2012
NAME: ______________________________
STUDENT NUMBER: ______________________________
GROUP: ______________________________
LECTURER: ______________________________
You may use an English-English Dictionary.
SECTION A (30 marks)
Instructions: Every line in the following press release contains an error (related to
punctuation, word form, inaccurate lexical choice and spelling). Underline the error and
write the correct form in the space provided.
The Humane Society of United States plans to release on
Thursday the results of an undercover investigation in
Kreider Farms, a major factory farm that produced 4.5
million eggs each day for supermarket across the United
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States. Ive reviewed fotage and photos taken by the
investigator, who says he has worked for Kreider
between January and March of this year. In a interview,
he portrayed an operation that gave little concern for
cleanliness or the welfare forhens. Its physically hard to
breath because of the ammonia rising from manure pits
below older barns said the investigator, who would not
allowed his name to be used because that would prevent
him from taking another undercover job, in agriculture.
Mouses sometimes ran down egg conveyer belts, barns
were tick with flies and manure in three barns tested
positive for salmonella, he said. Actually salmonella isnt
as rare as you might think turning up in 3 percent of egg
factory farms tested by the food and drug administration
last year. In some cases, 11 hens were jamed into a 2
feet times 2 feet cage. The Humane Society says that
that is even more cramped than the egg industries own
voluntary standards which have been widely criticized
as inadequate. An automatic feeding cart that runs
between the cages sometimes decapilitates hens as
theyre eating, the investigator said. Corpse are pulled
out if theyre easy to see, but some times remain for
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weeks in the cages piling up until they have rotted into
the wiring, he added. Other hens have their head stuck in
the wire, and are usually left to die, the investigator said.
However, things are beginning to change as farmers and
animal protection activists agreeing on a way forward.
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(Source: The New York Times. April 11, 2012)
SECTION B (30 marks)
Rewrite the following sentences to ensure that they are better structured.
1. Since the expo has been held annually from years back, naturally it attracts lots
of participants. There are school trips, parents, and also fresh graduates who had
just received their SPM results.
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(5 marks)
2. Many colleges abroad has fraternity houses for the students to pledge and be
apart of the college community as it encourages students to take pride of their
faculty and enhances the sense of belonging.
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(5 marks)
3. In November 2011, UiTM has sent a group of 24 students from Academy of
Language Studies (ALS) to the district of Pekan, Pahang, bearing the mission of
community service. Upon reaching that particular remore area of Pahang, the
students were divided into 12 pairs, and being sent to 12 different homes to their
respective adopted families.
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4. AIESEC Malaysia also helps you to spread your impact directly and indirectly by
conducting a workshop to university students, gain cultural experiences while you
are abroad, and enrich your personal training.
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5. The Academy of Language Studies started taking students intake in 2006
offering students a course on English for Professional Communication as their
first batch, followed by another programme, Bahasa Melayu for Professional
Communication in 2007.
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6. The exchange of student programme shows that the course offered by ALS,
UiTM is among the programme that are on demand. This shows that the Bahasa
Melayu programme offered by ALS, UiTM has gained the attention from abroad
education universities.
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(5 marks)
END OF TEST PAPER