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Technical Communication 11th Edition Mike Markel - Solutions
=+31. Refer to the advice on page 239, and revise the following sentences to eliminate fancy words.
=+b. We remain in communication with our sales staff on a weekly basis.
=+a. The instruction manual for the new copier is lacking in clarity and completeness.
=+30. Refer to the advice on pages 238–39, and revise the following sentences to make them more concise.
=+b. The purpose of this test of your aptitudes is to help you with the question of the decision of which major to enroll in.
=+a. The complexity of the module will hamper the ability of the operator in the diagnosis of problems in equipment configuration.
=+29. Refer to the advice on page 237, and revise the following sentences to eliminate unnecessary prepositional phrases.
=+b. An anticipated major breakthrough in storage technology will allow us to proceed ahead in the continuing evolution of our products.
=+pleased to offer you this free gift as a small token gesture of our gratitude.
=+28. Refer to the advice on page 237, and revise the following sentences to remove the redundancies.a. In grateful appreciation of your patronage, we are
=+b. The presentation was generally well received for the most part, despite the fact that we received a rather small number of questionnaire responses.
=+a. For all intents and purposes, our company’s longterm success depends to a certain degree on various factors that are in general difficult to foresee.
=+27. Refer to the advice on page 237, and revise the following sentences to remove meaningless filler.
=+b. The starting date of the project had to be postponed for a certain period of time due to a delay in obtaining the necessary authorization from the Project Oversight Committee.
=+a. To register to take a course offered by the university, you must first determine whether the university will be offering that course that semester.
=+26. Refer to the advice on pages 236–37, and revise the following sentences to eliminate the obvious material.
=+b. Of course, accident statistics can be expected to show a moderate increase in response to a streamlining of the training schedule.
=+a. Downsizing our workforce will enable our division to achieve a more favorable cash-flow profile.
=+25. Refer to the advice on page 236, and revise the following sentences to eliminate euphemisms.
=+b. At the end of the day, if everyone is on the same page and it turns out to be the wrong page, you’re really up a creek without a paddle.
=+a. If we are to survive this difficult period, we are going to have to keep our ears to the ground and our noses to the grindstone.
=+24. Refer to the advice on pages 235–36, and revise the following sentences to eliminate clichés.
=+b. We are considering purchasing a digital-imaging capable, diffusion-pump equipped, tungsten-gun SEM.
=+a. The research team discovered a glycerin-initiated, alkylene-oxide-based, long-chain polyether.
=+23. General readers might find the following sentences awkward or difficult to understand. Refer to the advice on page 235, and rewrite the following sentences to eliminate the long noun strings.
=+b. We must make sure that all our representatives do not act unprofessionally to potential clients.
=+a. Management accused Williams of filing trip reports that were not accurate.
=+22. Refer to the advice on pages 234–35, and revise the following sentences to convert the negative constructions to positive constructions.
=+b. Police apprehended the perpetrator and placed her under arrest directly adjacent to the scene of the incident.
=+21. Refer to the advice on page 234, and revise the following sentences to remove unnecessary jargon.a. We need to be prepared for blowback from the announcement.
=+b. Analysis of the soil beneath the new stadium revealed an interesting fact.
=+a. The chemical spill in the lab caused extensive damage.
=+20. Refer to the advice on page 233, and revise the following sentences by replacing the vague elements with specific information. Make up any reasonable details.
=+packet with your name on it can be picked up there.
=+a. Mistakes were made.b. Come to the reception desk when you arrive. A
=+19. Refer to the advice on pages 231–33, and rewrite the following sentences to remove inappropriate use of the passive voice.
=+b. If the University of Arizona can’t figure out where to dump its low-level radioactive waste, Uncle Sam could pull the plug on millions of dollars of research grants.
=+a. The biggest problem faced by multimedia designers is that users freak if they don’t see a button—or, heaven forbid, if they have to make up their own buttons!
=+18. Refer to the advice on pages 230–31, and revise the following informal sentences to make them moderately formal.
=+b. The boats in production could be modified in time for the February debut by choosing this method.
=+a. To examine the chemical homogeneity of the plaque sample, one plaque was cut into nine sections.
=+17. Refer to the advice on page 230, and revise the following sentences to eliminate the dangling modifiers.
=+b. Information provided by this program is displayed at the close of the business day on the information board.
=+a. Over the past three years we have estimated that eight hours per week are spent on this problem.
=+16. Refer to the advice on pages 229–30, and revise the following sentences to eliminate the misplaced modifiers.
=+b. Please get in touch with Tom Harvey who is updating the instructions.
=+a. This problem that has been traced to manufacturing delays, has resulted in our losing four major contracts.
=+15. Refer to the advice on pages 228–29, and revise the following sentences to correct punctuation or pronoun errors related to modifiers.
=+b. In the box, we should include a copy of the documentation, the cables, and the docking station.
=+a. The next two sections of the manual discuss how to analyze the data, the conclusions that can be drawn from your analysis, and how to decide what further steps are needed before establishing a journal list.
=+14. Refer to the advice on pages 227–28, and revise the following sentences to eliminate nonparallelism.
=+b. Evaluation of the gumming tendency of the four tire types will be accomplished by comparing the amount of rubber that can be scraped from the tires.
=+a. Pollution constitutes a threat to the Matthews Wildlife Preserve.
=+13. In the following sentences, unnecessary nominalization obscures the real verb. Refer to the advice on pages 226–27, and revise the sentences to focus on the real verb.
=+b. The use of in-store demonstrations has resulted in a dramatic increase in business.
=+a. There has been a decrease in the number of students enrolled in our training sessions.
=+12. In the following sentences, the real subjects are buried in prepositional phrases or obscured by expletives.Refer to the advice on pages 225–26, and revise the sentences so that the real subjects appear prominently.
=+b. The supervisor is responsible for processing the outgoing mail. He is also responsible for maintaining and operating the equipment.
=+a. I need a figure on the surrender value of a policy. The number of the policy is A4399827. Can you get me this figure by tomorrow?
=+11. The following examples contain choppy, abrupt sentences. Refer to the advice on page 225, and combine sentences to create a smoother style.
=+legal staff, we were unable to get them to specify what they would be looking for in an out-of-court settlement, but they gave us a strong impression that they would rather settle out of court.
=+a. If we get the contract, we must be ready by June 1 with the necessary personnel and equipment, so with this in mind a staff meeting, which all group managers are expected to attend, is scheduled for February 12.b. Although we had a frank discussion with Backer’s
=+10. The following sentences might be too long for some readers. Refer to the advice on page 234, and break each sentence into two or more sentences.
=+b. All the seminars finished by the time I arrived at 3:00 on Thursday afternoon.
=+a. Galileo paid dearly for his belief that the Earth revolved around the Sun.
=+9. Refer to the advice on pages 222–23, and rewrite each of the following sentences to eliminate incorrect use of tenses.
=+b. The team were assembled to carry out the study and report its findings to management.
=+a. A researcher who has submitted all the IRB forms is still required to submit their proposal to the Research Committee.
=+8. Refer to the advice on page 222, and rewrite each of the following sentences so that it maintains pronounantecedent agreement.
=+b. The typical question received at our call centers are not answered in any of the user guides.
=+a. Samples from the survey is subject to sampling and nonsampling errors.
=+7. Refer to the advice on page 222, and rewrite each of the following sentences so that it maintains subject-verb agreement.
=+a. More Latinos in the United States than ever are watching news on English-language, television programs.b. There are four parking spots on campus that may be used only by Nobel Prize winning faculty.
=+6. Refer to the advice on pages 221–22, and rewrite each of the following sentences to eliminate unclear adjectives.
=+b. Universities enter into contracts with food-service providers more than hospitals.
=+a. The experiences of children with disabilities differ from adults with disabilities.
=+5. Refer to the advice on pages 220–21, and rewrite each of the following sentences to eliminate unclear comparisons.
=+b. The football program and the basketball programs are the highest grossing of the seventeen sports at the university. They posted revenues of $1.9 million last year.
=+a. Kathleen Norris is in charge of analyzing the summer-semester orientation session, which is expected to last five days.
=+4. Refer to the advice on pages 219–20, and rewrite each of the following sentences to eliminate ambiguous pronoun references.
=+b. Now you can burn your digital music library to DVDs burning to DVDs gives you a significant increase in storage space (4.7 Gb for a standard DVD v. 700 Mb for a CD).
=+a. A group of US scientists has encoded a 53,000-word book entirely in DNA this means DNA could become a future means of storing large amounts of data.
=+3. Refer to the advice on pages 218–19, and rewrite each of the following sentences to eliminate run-ons.
=+b. The federal Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement is developing new regulations for offshore oil and gas operations in the Arctic, these regulations are expected to be ready for review later this year.
=+a. Porsche has won the J. D. Power new-model satisfaction award more than any other carmaker, the German company is expected to win next year, too.
=+2. Refer to the advice on page 218, and rewrite each of the following sentences to eliminate comma splices.
=+b. The physical impossibility of knowing both the position and the momentum of a particle at the same time.
=+a. Nine bones from a Pacific walrus that were found in a coffin beneath St. Pancras Railway Station in London.
=+1. Refer to the advice on pages 217–18, and rewrite each of the following sentences to eliminate sentence fragments.
=+c. Congress’s decision to withdraw support for the supercollider in 1994 was a shock to the U.S. particlephysics community. This _________ is seen as instrumental in the revival of the European research community.
=+b. The university has increased the number of parking spaces, instituted a shuttle system, and increased parking fees. These _________ are expected to ease the parking problems.
=+a. The Zoning Commission has scheduled an open hearing for March 14. This ________ will enable concerned citizens to voice their opinions on the proposed construction.
=+6. In each of the following exercises, the second sentence begins with a demonstrative pronoun. Add a noun after the demonstrative to enhance coherence.
=+PC products. These decisions appear to have paid off for Acer: last year, its market share rose 3 percentage points, from 8 to 11. ___________, Dell rose only 0.1 point, from 14.8 to 14.9.
=+might be best for today’s PC industry. Acer’s success can be attributed to three decisions it made. First, it sold off its division that manufactured components for other PC brands. _________, it correctly concluded that consumers, who generally prefer preconfigured PCs, would outnumber
=+website. ___________, the recent success of Acer, now number three in sales, suggests that the older formula of distributing commodity items through retailers
=+One formula that appeared foolproof for selling computers was direct sales by the manufacturer to the consumer. Dell, ___________, climbed to number two in PC sales by selling customized products directly on its
=+5. In the following paragraph, transitional words and phrases have been removed. Add an appropriate transition in each blank space. Where necessary, add punctuation.
=+b. ___________________________. The reason for this difference is that a larger percentage of engineers working in small firms may be expected to hold high-level positions. In firms with fewer than 20 engineers, for example, the median income was$62,200. In firms of 20 to 200 engineers, the
=+Americans are priced out of the market, unable to afford the health-care services that they desperately need to become fully productive in the economy.
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