Montana Tech Advanced Technical Writing Exercise Please do the two parts below, and the 3rd part in the attached document. PART I : For each of the followi

Montana Tech Advanced Technical Writing Exercise Please do the two parts below, and the 3rd part in the attached document. PART I : For each of the following claims, write one paragraph identifying the logical flaw:

The election couldn’t have been fair — I don’t know anyone who voted for the winner.

It would be wrong to prosecute Allied for age discrimination; Allied has always been a great corporate
neighbor.

The decrease in smoking can be attributed to increased restrictions on smoking in public.

Bill Jensen’s proposal to create an on-site day-care center is just the latest of his harebrained ideas.

Since the introduction of cola drinks at the start of the twentieth century, cancer has become the
second-greatest killer in the United States. Cola drinks should be outlawed.

If mutual-fund guru Peter Lynch recommends this investment, I think we ought to buy it.

We should not go into the flash-memory market; we have always been a leading manufacturer of
DRAM.

The other two hospitals in the city have implemented computerized patient record keeping; I think we
need to do so, too.

Our Model X500 didn’t succeed because we failed to sell a sufficient number of units.

No research has ever established that Internet businesses can earn money; they will never succeed. PART II : In the following paragraph, transitional words and phrases have been removed. Add an appropriate
transition in each blank space. Where necessary, add punctuation.
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 website. ___________, the recent success of Acer, now number three in sales,
suggests that the older formula of distributing commodity items through retailers 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 business customers. And
________, it decided to expand its line of inexpensive netbooks (small PCs for surfing the Internet)
just when the economic downturn increased the demand for cheaper 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. 3. Revise the following list so that the lead-in is clear, easy to understand, and punctuated correctly. In
addition, be sure the bullet items are grammatically parallel with one another and punctuated correctly.
There are several goals being pursued by the Natural and Accelerated Bioremediation Research office;
• the development of cost-effective in situ bioremediation strategies for subsurface radionuclides and metals;
• an understanding of intrinsic bioremediation as well as accelerated bioremediation using nutrient amendments to
immobilize contaminants;
• identifying societal issues associated with bioremediation research, and communication of bioremediation
research findings to stakeholders.

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