College of Criminal Justice Education

BS Criminology 3
Midterm Examination in CDI 5 – Technical Report Writing and Presentation

I. Multiple Choice
Directions: Read the statements carefully before encircling the letter of your answer. Use black ballpen
only. Avoid erasures.
1. It is an exact narration of facts discovered during the course of crime investigation which serves as a
permanent written record for future reference.
a. Report b. Police Report c. Patrol Report d. Written Report
2. The following are the purposes of police reports except one. Which one is it?
a. Written report serves as the raw materials from which record system are made.
b. Written report guide police administrators for policy formulation and decision making.
c. Written reports are kept for future references.
d. Written reports
3. Which of the following is not a quality of a good technical report?
a. Accuracy b. Brevity c. Completeness d. Ambiguity
4. A good writer is aware that one of his objectives is to present information that is entirely complete.
This falls under what quality of a good technical report?
a. Accuracy b. Clarity c. Brevity d. Completeness
5. This is a condition of writing where ideas are simplified by making it easier for the readers to
understand the text. This is achieved by providing further examples, illustrations, or diagrams in order to
elucidate the text.
a. Accuracy b. Clarity c. Brevity d. Completeness
6. It refers to the people who design reading materials, edit proposals, write manuals, create web pages,
write lab reports, write newsletters, and submit various kinds of professional documents.
a. Writers b. Consultant c. Technical Communicator d. Specialist
7. It is a type of police report usually a letter or a memorandum or any one of many prescribed or used in
day-by-day police operations.
a. Informal Report b. Formal Report
8. It suggests a full dress treatment, including cover, title page, letter of transmittal, summary sheet, text,
appendices, and perhaps an index and bibliography.
a. Informal Report b. Formal Report
9. This is a category of police reports that include those relating to the reporting of police incidents,
investigation, arrests, identification of persons, and a mass of miscellaneous reports necessary to the
conduct of routine police operations.
a. Operational Reports c. Technical Reports
b. Internal Business Reports d. Summary Reports
10. What are the elements for a crime to happen?
a. Motives, Instrumentalities, and Opportunities
b. Motives and Instrumentalities
c. Motives and Opportunities
d. Instrumentalities and Opportunities
11. It refers to the means or instruments used in the commission of the crime.
a. Motives b. Instrumentalities c. Opportunities d. Agendum
12. Consist of the acts of omission and/or commission by a person (the victim) which enable another
person or group of persons (the criminal/s) to perpetrate the crime.
a. Motives b. Instrumentalities c. Opportunities d. Agendum
13. This is a form of dissemination of directives or orders which are intended for
compliance/implementation on temporary basis or lasting only for a short period.
a. General Orders b. Special Orders c. Numbered Memorandum d. Memoranda
14. Orders and/or directives covering organizational set-up, functional duties, constitution of committees,
including departmental commendations for officers, members and civilian employees.
a. General Orders b. Special Orders c. Numbered Memorandum d. Memoranda
15. It is a department-wide directions or orders prescribing guidelines, standing procedures, policies, rules
and regulations which are intended for compliance/ implementation on permanent or continuing basis.
a. General Orders b. Special Orders c. Numbered Memorandum d. Memoranda
16. Which of the following statements shows that the technical communicator is a generator of truth?
a. When the technical communicator bridges the gap between them of the audience.
 b. When the technical communicator is in the position to suggest and implement solutions to
problems that nobody else identifies.
c. When he excels at explaining difficult concepts for readers who will have no time to read
twice.
d. When he chooses what will be written, with the full knowledge that later readers will depend
on the accuracy of what has been written.
17. Which situation displays that the technical communicator has an excellent eye for details?

a. When the technical communicator bridges the gap between them of the audience.
b. When the technical communicator is in the position to suggest and implement solutions to
problems that nobody else identifies.
c. When he knows punctuations, syntax, and style, and can explain the rules governing them.
d. When he chooses what will be written, with the full knowledge that later readers will depend
on the accuracy of what has been written.
18. Which of the following statements shows that the technical communicator is a respected and credible?
a. When the technical communicator bridges the gap between them of the audience.
b. When the technical communicator is in the position to suggest and implement solutions to
problems that nobody else identifies.
c. When he is an expert in understanding the audience’s background and needs.
d. When he is a valuable and reliable source of information.
19. Which of the following statements shows that the technical communicator knows how to coordinate?
a. When the technical communicator bridges the gap between them of the audience.
b. When he knows how to coordinate with the collaborative work of graphic artists, programmers,
printers, and various subject matter experts.
c. When he is an expert in understanding the audience’s background and needs.
d. When he is a valuable and reliable source of information.
20. Who defined technical writing as a communication in any field where the primary aim of which is to
convey a particular piece of information, for a particular purpose, to a particular group or group of
readers?
a. Vicente, et.al (1997) c. Mills and Walter (1988)
b. Alcantara and Espina (2003) d. Dr. Oscar Soriano

II. TRUE or FALSE

Directions: Read the statements carefully. Write T if the statement is true and F if the statement is false in
the space provided before the number.
_______21. The most important aspect of communication is to disseminate information.
_______22. Purpose refers to the objective information that the writer wants to convey.
_______23. The word “technical” comes from the Latin word ‘techne’ that means ‘expertise.’
_______24. Technical writing is a form of technical skill which is used in a particular field of
specialization.
_______25. A technical writer is exempted in following the conventions and standards of good technical
writing.
_______26. Technical communication is the process of conveying technical information through writing,
speech, and medium to an intended audience.
_______27. Accuracy is the quality of writing where the ideas in the paragraph are entirely and absolutely
free from inconsistencies and errors in any form.
_______28. Brevity is the condition of writing where the writer simplifies ideas by making it easier for
the readers to understand the text.
_______29. A good technical report must have good qualities so that the expected output will be
appropriate and relevant.
_______30. Technical writing should be objective, clear and accurate, concise and unemotional in its
representation of facts.

III. Directions: Identify the correct order of the sentences and rewrite it in the space provided.

1. Once girl called a time young a beautiful there upon Esmerelda. was
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2. unkind who her with very was stepmother, lived She to her.
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3. The do all the stepmother housework. Esmerelda made
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4. alone. sent forest, the was dark all She where she into her
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5. decided get rid her of to She stepdaughter.
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IV. Directions: Select the correct word to supply in the space.

have particular for the as be
1. Your presentation was very useful. In ______________________ the part on marketing strategy.
2. This extinguisher can ________________________ used only if there is a fire.
3. If you had come earlier, you would _________________________ found a good seat.
4. My class isn't as well-behaved __________________________ yours.
5. Reading is very good __________________________ children's intellectual development.

V. Directions: Underline the verb that agrees with the subject. Avoid erasures.
1. I (brush/brushes) my teeth twice a day.
2. You (wear/wears) the same shoes every time we go out.
3. He (kick/kicks) the soccer ball into the goal.
4. She (watch/watches) foreign films.
5. Catherine (hide/hides) behind the door.
6. We (want/wants) to have dinner with you.
7. You (work/works) together to finish the project.
8. They (need/needs) to score another point to win the game.
9. It (eat/eats) four times a day.
10. David (fix/fixes) his own motorcycle.

VI. Directions: Construct 2 sentences for each kind of sentences according to structure.
A. Declarative Sentence
1. ___________________________________________________________________________________

2. ___________________________________________________________________________________

B. Interrogative Sentence
1.___________________________________________________________________________________

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2. ___________________________________________________________________________________

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C. Imperative Sentence
1.___________________________________________________________________________________

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2. ___________________________________________________________________________________

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D. Exclamatory Sentence
1.___________________________________________________________________________________

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2. ___________________________________________________________________________________

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VII. Directions: Construct 2 sentences for each kind of sentences according to function.
A. Simple Sentence
1. ___________________________________________________________________________________
2. ___________________________________________________________________________________

B. Compound Sentence
1.___________________________________________________________________________________

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2. ___________________________________________________________________________________

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C. Complex Sentence
1.___________________________________________________________________________________

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2. ___________________________________________________________________________________

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D. Compound-Complex Sentence
1.___________________________________________________________________________________

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2. ___________________________________________________________________________________

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Prepared by:

Keziah Meria D. Aragon

Instructor I