Federal Technical and Vocational Educational and Training Institute

Department of English Language and Humanities

Basic Writing Skills Assignment for summer in-service students for the year 2015
E.C.

Name of student: Haymanot Yihune Id. No.: TTK/265/11 Section III

N.B. Please read the following important points that would help you in doing this assignment.

 You need to go through the course material from the very beginning to the end to do the questions.
To allocate some 30 minutes daily for your Basic Writing Skills course to read and practice the
activities will help you a lot to develop your writing skill.
 On arrival for face-to-face tutorial sessions, you are most welcomed to ask questions on issues you
are not clear to do the questions. Even during tutorial sessions you have to change some of your
answers which you could find not correctly done.
 Any written material copied from a friend or down-loaded from internet will be nullified.
 Your answers should go into a separate piece of paper written neat and legible.
 Total mark allotted for the assignment is 30 %

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A. Decide the type of structural sentences the following are (5 points).
1. While walking on the streets of Addis Ababa, I often come across honest people.

Complex sentence
2. They say if you try to wrongly take others’ property, you will pay off.

Complex sentence
3. They were able to fix the problem of the engine however, no body acknowledged their efforts and
this made them to feel awful.

Compound complex sentence

4. My football talent is attractive and comfortable to watch.

Simple sentence
5. As we were rushing home, a heavy rain caught us in the middle of the field and we had nowhere to
escape.

Compound p complex sentence

B. Combine the following sentences using the clues given. (4 points)
1. Dino likes to eat Kitfo for dinner. Dino likes to eat Shirowat for dinner (either-or)

Dina likes to eaten either kitfo or shirowat for dinnar.

2. The girls never go on vacations every year. The boys never go to their home towns on
weekends. (nor)

Nor the girls to vacation every year

Nor the boys go to their home towns on weekends.
3. The electricians have taken part in the construction of the new town. The surveyors have taken
part in the construction of the new town. (not only –but also)

Not onlythee electricians but also the surveyors have taken part in
the construction of the new town.

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 4. Agriculturalists did not contribute in the introduction of the new technology. Manufacturers
did not contribute in the introduction of the new technology. (neither -nor)

Neither agriculturalists nor manufacturers contribute in the

introduction of the new technology.
C. Complete the following text using appropriate conjunctive adverb from the following list: never
the less, for example, or else, therefore, in addition. (3 points)
This paper presents the use of various forms of conjunctions in the writings of students in English as
Foreign Language situations. It has found a significant difference in the use of ‘and’ between high and

low rated texts. The conjunctive ‘and’ is seen to have a less unifying function, it is1. Never the
less avoided in the high rated texts but vigorously utilized in the low rated ones. 2. For
examplethe study further reveals that there is no significant difference in the use of other

conjunctives. 3. In additionwith ‘temporal’, and ‘demonstratives’, these are scarcely employed

in any of the texts. The conclusion drawn is that these EFL students have yet to master the mechanics of
text connection through conjunctions and forwards extra efforts towards the teaching of conjunctions to
achieve the proficiency level required of students.
D. Identify the faulty type these sentences are and write the corrected version. (5 points)
1. I did not feel good last night. For the second time this week alone.

I didn’t feel well last night for the second time this week I don’t fill
well.
2. She can’t be with you she has to be at home before curfew.

 Run on (fused sentence)

 She can’t be with you; because she has to be at home
before curfew.
3. Nuru likes to play basketball, playing football and jugging in the field.

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 Nuru likes play, for example playing basket ball, playing
football and jugging in the field.
4. The trader sold the dress to the lady with a stripe.

 Misplaced modifier
 The trader sold the dress with a stripe to the lady.
5. While taking exams, told not to talk to friends.

 Dangling modifier
 While I was taking exams, I was told not to talk to my
friends.
 While taking exam, I was told not to talk to friend.
E. Narrowing down the following topics, write a topic sentence to write a paragraph. (2 points)
(here you are not supposed to write a paragraph)
1. Economic freedom

 Economic freedom is the basic rights of every human to

manage their own labor and property.

2. Civilization

 Civilization is a large amount of culture in which

different nations of people shares a diversity of common
elements for way of life.

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 F. Write a well developed paragraph using one of the topic sentences you have written in part E
above in about 150 words. (4 points)
Economic Freedom

Economic freedom is the basic rights of every human to

manage their own labor and property. It gives personnel equal
economic opportunity without being aggressed by others. In
economically open societies, governments agree to effort, capital
and goods to travel liberally (freely); and also refrain from
constraint of freedom further than the level essential to keep and
sustain liberty itself. It means that the people of the country are
free to work, produce, consume, and even invest in their own
way which they think is the most productive to them. Based on
this, economically free societies get full control and
responsibility of their property, skills and ideas. Depending on
these issues, government can promote the economic freedom by
implementing a legal structure and law enforcement rules that
will protect their citizen’s rights. At the same time, the
government does not have the right to get in the way with the
personal right of the citizen. For the reason that, administration

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interference reduces economic freedom, if the interference is by
substituting the taxes voluntary exchange, market coordination,
and government expenditures regulation for personal choice.
G. Develop those same topics in E above into thesis statements. (2 points)

1. Economic freedom gives individuals equal economic

opportunity without being aggressed by others.
2. Historians have identified a great deal of basic
characteristics of civilization.
H. Write a well developed essay of five paragraphs on the topic you have developed into a
paragraph in F above. Make sure that your essay consists of an introductory paragraph, three
body paragraphs and a concluding paragraph. (5 points)

Economic freedom

1. The ability of people of a society to take economic

actions freely is known as economic freedom. It is the
absence of government’s threatening force or constraint on
the production, distribution or consumptions of goods and
services beyond the extent necessary for the citizens to
protect and maintain liberty itself. Furthermore, economic

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freedom plays a great role in giving individual citizen an
important opportunity and making self-reliant and beneficial
citizen of the country. Therefore, economic freedom is the
fundamental right of every human to control his/her own
labor and property. Economic freedom is one of the most
important determinants of economic outcomes of a country.
It gives individuals equal economic opportunity, full control
and responsibility of their property, skills and ideas. It also,
reduces poverty, improves individuals well-being and their
families future.
2. Another importance of economic freedom is being
beneficiary for individual citizens. The most obvious benefit
of economic freedom is that it is a system as system it is the
most conducive to wide spread prosperity. As the result, it is
used to expand or raise income and consumption for the bulk
of the population.
3. On the basis of the above idea, the corners stones
of economic freedom are: Personal choice, voluntary
exchange, which is coordinated by market, freedom to enter
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and complete in the markets as well as protection of persons
and their property from the violence by the others. In other
word, it is the freedom to produce, trade,, consume any
goods and services obtained without the use of force, fake or
theft.
4. Economic freedom also helps every human being as a
fundamental right to control his or her own labor and
property. In economically free societies, governments allow
labor, capital and goods to move freely; and retrain
compulsion. However, government can promote the
economic freedom through implementing a legal structure
and enforcing rules that will protect their citizen’s rights.
Meanwhile, the government has no the right to interfere with
the personal right of the citizens’ because, the government
illegal interference minimizes economic freedom by
violating personal choice, voluntary exchange and marketing
systems.
5. To sum up, economic freedom can be seen in
different dimensions. As it has been stated in the above
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paragraphs, economic freedom is a basic right of mankind to
take economic actions; it also used as stepping stone to
exercise and maintain liberty. Moreover, economic freedom
is a system or technique, which is used to allocate prosperity
for dense population by rising income and consumption.