COT 308 TECHNICAL WRITING Exam 2026

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COT 308: Second Semester Examination 2025/2026 for COT308 Technical Writing, College of Technology, University of Buea, June 2026, instructor Emmanuel N. Tabah, two hours. Question 1 (40 marks): a four-paragraph reading passage on technology's transformation of healthcare (diagnostics, surgery, telemedicine, wearables, and future personalized/preventative medicine), with paragraphs 2 and 3 deliberately shuffled, followed by seven sub-questions -- identifying and justifying the thesis sentence, summarising the passage in four sentences, identifying cohesion markers, reordering the shuffled sentences, identifying the unused introduction strategy among historical account/anecdote/facts, identifying and justifying topic sentences in paragraphs 2 and 3, and identifying the concluding strategy. Question 2 (15 marks): explaining what belongs in a report's SWOT analysis and how it connects to recommendations. Question 3 (15 marks): fifteen true/false statements testing technical-writing concepts (cohesion, paraphrasing vs summarising, plagiarism, passive voice, thesis/topic sentences, academic tone, and use of statistics).