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Memorandum

Design4Practice (D4P) Program

To: EGR 186 Students

From: Dr. Jennifer Wade

Re: Technical Writing Warm-Up

Upload a PDF of this completed assignment on BBLearn by Tuesday, September 29th.

For this assignment, you will need to answer the questions below. Type your responses where indicated -- and delete the words in the square brackets: [ ]. In order to successfully answer these questions, you'll need to:

· Navigate to http://azhin.org/nau/EGR-186-Homework-Fall-2015. You'll need to read everything on that page, and then follow the prompts for answering specific questions below.

· Download the research article: Comparison of Three Household Water Treatment Technologies in San Mateo Ixtatán, Guatemala (provided on Bb Learn).

· Note, research articles are difficult to read unless you are an expert. As you study this article, you will be able to get a general idea of what it is about. The questions below relate to this article.

1 . Notice that the article you are reading is divided into these sections: Title, Abstract, Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion, Conclusion, and References. Most research articles are divided into these same sections. The Introduction section of an article will describe the research problem that the authors investigated. Look over the Introduction and summarize the research problem that the author's investigated:

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2. Notice that the authors cite a lot of other research articles in the introduction, before they start describing the research that they investigated. It is typical for authors to do this in the Introduction section. Why do you think authors do this? What purpose does it serve?

[type your response here]

3. Which section of the article provides a short summary of the entire article?

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4. To find out what the authors learned from their research project, you can skip to the Discussion and Conclusions sections of the article. Take a look at those sections. Were the authors successful in solving their research problem? Explain your answer.

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5. Why do you think the authors of this article took to the time to write it and get it published?

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6. Imagine that you are the owner of a private engineering company and you want to manufacture and sell high-quality, long-lasting, ceramic water filters to people at risk from using unsafe water. Would reading this article be useful to you? Explain why or why not.

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7. Do you think this article is a reliable source of information? Think about reasons why or why not. List at least two reasons in any mix of categories below.

Reasons I think this article is likely to be reliable:

Reasons why it is hard for me to tell if this article is reliable:

Reasons why I think this article might not be reliable:

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8. What type of publication is the citation below? (Pick from: journal article, conference paper, book, or website.)

X. Zhu and X. Wu, “Class noise vs. attribute noise: A quantitative study of their impacts,” Artificial Intelligence Review, vol. 22, no. 3/4, pp. 177–210, Nov. 2004. doi: 10.1007/s10462-004-0751-8

[type your response here]

9. Name the parts of this citation:

· X. Zhu and X. Wu: [type your response here]

· Class noise vs. attribute noise: A quantitative study of their impacts: [type your response here]

· Artificial Intelligence Review: [type your response here]

· 22: [type your response here]

· 3/4: [type your response here]

· 177–210: [type your response here]

· Nov. 2004: [type your response here]

· 10.1007/s10462-004-0751-8: [type your response here]

10. Are the references listed at the end of the article you've been reading (Comparison of Three Household Water Treatment Technologies in San Mateo Ixtatán, Guatemala ) formatted in the IEEE citation style? What clues helped you determine if they are or are not?

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11. What is the most comprehensive engineering database for finding articles and conference papers?

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12. Let's say you were just getting familiar with the topic of ceramic water filters. In what order would you do the following:

Random Order:

Your Order:

· Look for books covering the topic

· Look for research articles on the topic

· Search the web for information on this topic

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Explain the order you chose:

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