Assignment Task
For this assignment you will use your reading and paraphrasing skills as well as your understanding of organizational patterns to complete the following:
- A detailed point-form outline that lists the steps for the technology to achieve its operational goals
- An accurate sentence-developed paragraph that informs a non-specialist audience about how the technology works
To maintain academic integrity, your paragraph needs to be written in sentences that do not use the same structures and ordering of words as David Szondy’s sentences in the source article . To ensure that you paraphrase effectively, focus on how the relevant content uses organizational patterns, particularly chronological order, process or sequence order, classification and division, and cause/effect .
Developing the process analysis outline and paragraph:
1. Actively read “Gizmag Goes Inside the World’s Largest Tunnel Boring Machine” by David Szondy to understand the technology of Bertha the tunnel boring machine (TBM).
Your active reading should involve notetaking (paper or digital) that answers these process-focused questions:
- What are Bertha’s two operational goals?
- What are the steps that occur to achieve these goals?
- How do the steps relate to each other through cause and effect? In other words, how do inputs become outputs?
- What are the two groups of steps (or two stages of the process) for Bertha’s two operational goals?
- When do these two groups of repeating steps occur in relation to each other? In other words, do the groups of steps occur consecutively or concurrently?
Use the following link for the complete version of the article in order to view its additional online content (images and video):
2. Based on your notes generated from your careful reading of the article, create a detailed point-form outline that lists the steps for Bertha’s operation in numbered format. Ensure that your numbered outline features the following process details:
- when the processes occur (before, during, or after other processes)
- what groups of processes occur (the two stages of steps for Bertha to complete its two tasks)
- how and why the processes occur (the inputs that become outputs for Bertha to achieve its operational goals)
3. Using your notes and outline based on Szondy’s article, write a paragraph (fully paraphrased, approximately words) that explains how Bertha operates to complete its tasks. Remember to edit your sentences to avoid comma splice, run-on, fragment, and subject-verb agreement errors.
