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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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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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(5 marks)

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)

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