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Batch 2

UNIVERSITY OF GHANA
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BAfBSC SECOND SEMESTER EXAMINATIONS: 2022/2023

UGRC 110: ACADEMIC WRITING I (3 CREDITS)

INSTRUCTIONS:
• WRITE YOUR INDEX NUMBER, GROUP NUMBER, AND/OR LECTURER'S
NAME ON THE ANSWER BOOKLET PROVIDED .
• TillS PAPER IS MADE UP OF THREE SECTIONS: SECTION A
(DISTINCTIVE FEATURES OF ACADEMIC WRITING), SECTION B (ESSAY
STRUCTURE&PARAGRAPHING)ANDSECTIONC(POST-WRITINGAND
REFERENC~G).
• ANSWER ALL QUESTIONS IN ALL SECTIONS.
• WRITE YOUR ANSWERS IN THE ANSWER BOOKLET PROVIDED.

TIME ALLOWED: TWO HOURS (2 HRS)

SECTION A: DISTINCTIVE FEATURES OF ACADEMIC WRITING [20 MARKS]

Closely read the pair of paragraphs below - Passage A and Passage B - and answer the
questions that follow them.

Passage A
Child trafficking is gradually emerging as a global issue, and nearly all countries are affected
by this criminal violation of children's rights. Research by Minority Rights Aglow (2022)
reveals that for some countries, the trafficking of children occurs within national boundaries
and remains a national issue; however, for many, it crosses borders and regions. The victims,
mostly separated from their families and communities, end up in prostitution and other
exploitative forms of work in labour-intensive industries and other work avenues such as
agriculture, mining, manufacturing, fishing, and domestic service (R.fiseJaers, 2002).
According to Buer (2020), child trafficking can be defined as the recruitment, transportation,
transfer, harboring and/or kidnapping of a child for the purpose of adoption, exploitation,
forced labor or slavery. It is a practice that involves illegally procuring and relocating children
under age eighteen mainly for purposes of forced labour or sexual exploitation. The driving
forces behind child trafficking are poverty, demand for cheap labour and lack of law
enforcement.

Passage
Poverty, B
greed, and other things are the causes of child trafficking. Child trafficking is very
common nowadays and everyone knows about it. Child traffickers take advantage of the people
who are poor by giving them some small money and taking away their kids. Some even steal
them. This is so unfair and it's a very evil act. I heard, which I was very shocked to hear, that
Examiners: Prof. E.K. Amuzu, Dr. Nana Ama Agyeman (Coordinator), Dr. DavidA. Odoi, Mr. Seth N.M.
Allotey, Dr. Alimsiwen E. Ayaawan, Dr. P.K Adika, Mr. Richard Bonnie Jnr., Dr. Sika E. Jacobs-Quashie, Dr.
Margaret Ansre, Mr. Prosper Agordjor, Dr. Kwaku Ofori, Dr. Albert Wornyo, Dr. Shirley Banini, Dr. Charles
Asante, Dr. Evelyn Joyce Mandor, Dr. Dorian Odolina Oyewale-Johnson , Mrs. Eunyce Ellis, Ms. Ivy Jones-
Mensah, Mr. Charles K. Adjei-Fobi, Mr. Bernard Sam, Mr. Isaac Danquah Darko, Dr. Mohammed Sadat, Mr.
Charles Arthur, Ms. Halimatu Sardia Jibril, Mrs. Jessie Bannerman-Wood, Dr. Gabriel. Opoku.
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SECTION C: POST-WRITING-PROOFREADING AND EDITING [10 MARKS]

3) The passage below contains some errors; proofread it and rewrite the paragraph in your
answer booklet as you correct the errors identified. Underline your corrections in the
re-written paragraph.

With regard to the effective reading or study procedure, we concentrated on the method of
study dubbed PQ4R. Which is an acronym for preview, question, read, reflect, recall, and
review. These are steps for effective reading, and they are complemented or supplemented by
the key comprehension strategies. Thus, as you follow these steps you also apply the principles
of effective reading concurrently. The first step, which is preview, means to skim a text. Before
this, you can make predictions about the text. Predictions can also be made while the text is
been read. Based on the outcome of your skimming (i.e., your broad knowledge of the subject
matter of the text), you now generate questions, this is a very important stage in the reading
process. I hope you have not forgotten the three kinds of questions that you ask, thematic
questions, discourse questions, and critical questions. Go back and refresh your memory about
these questions. Questioning, which is the second step in the effective reading procedure,
shapes your expectation and draws your attention to the key information and elements of the
text.

Examiners: Prof. E.K. Amuzu, Dr. Nana Ama Agyeman (Coordinator), Dr. David A. Odoi, Mr. Seth N.M.
Allotey, Dr. Alimsiwen E. Ayaawan, Dr. P.K Adika, Mr. Richard Bonnie Jnr., Dr. Sika E. Jacobs-Quashie, Dr.
Margaret Ansre, Mr. Prosper Agordjor, Dr. Kwaku Ofori, Dr. Albert Wornyo, Dr. Shirley Banini, Dr. Charles
Asante, Dr. Evelyn Joyce Mandor, Dr. Dorian Odolina Oyewale-Johnson, Mrs. Eunyce Ellis, Ms. Ivy Jones-
Mensah, Mr. Charles K. Adjei-Fobi, Mr. Bernard Sam, Mr. Isaac Danquah Darko, Dr. Mohammed Sadat, Mr.
Charles Arthur, Ms. Halimatu Sardia Jibril, Mrs. Jessie Bannerman-Wood, Dr. Gabriel. Opoku.
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