ENGR 1271 Writing Assignment 1

Note that there are 4 parts to this first assignment set:

1. Quiz 1A (1%) Approximate time to complete: 10 Minutes
2. Quiz 1B (1%) Approximate time to complete: 10 Minutes
3. Evaluation of Article (3%) Approximate time to complete: 1-2 Hours
4. Parts of Speech Exercise (1%) Approximate time to complete: 20 Minutes

(This assignment is adapted in part from Beer & McMurry, Chapter 2, Exercise 3)

Worth 3%

1. Read Chapters 1 and 2 of your text.
2. Choose one of the following papers or articles, read it through, and answer the following questions:
   1. Who is the intended audience?
   2. Provide a 2-3 sentence summary of the article.
   3. How does the author use technical terminology?
      1. Is it appropriate for the audience?
      2. Are explanations or definitions given where they seem called for?
      3. Are there any examples of unnecessary jargon? (list them and state what words or phrases could have been used instead)
3. Formulate your response as an informal report no more than 2 pages long, save it as a Word or OpenOffice document, and submit it using Mahara.

(note that these are not formatted as formal citations)

1. Technical Aspects of a System for Teaching Aboriginal Languages Using a Game Boy (2005 conference paper draft)
2. Teaching Syntax in an Introductory Programming Course (1983 conference paper; note that given the age of the paper the formatting and typesetting is rather crude)
3. Games for Learning: Are Schools Ready for What's to Come? (2005 conference paper; study results)
4. A New Attitude To Game Engineering: Embrace Change, Re-Use, Fun by Johannes Norneby, Tobias Olsson (magazine article)
5. Dynamic Intelligent Lighting for Directing Visual Attention in Interactive 3-D Scenes, El-Nasr, M.S.; Vasilakos, A.; Rao, C.; Zupko, J. (2009 IEEE journal paper, loaded in BlackBoard as it is not a public access paper)
6. A Wii remote, a game engine, five sensor bars and a virtual reality theatre, Proceedings of the 19th Australasian conference on Computer-Human Interaction: Entertaining User Interfaces, November 28-30, 2007, Adelaide, Australia (2007 ACM conference paper, loaded in BlackBoard as it is not a public access paper)
7. Using a mobile phone as a "Wii-like" controller for playing games on a large public display, International Journal of Computer Games Technology, v.2008 n.2, p.1-6, January 2008
8. The use of Innovative Control Mechanisms to aid Proprioception in Robot Control (project proposal)

Worth 1%

1. Download the document linked below, and highlight or markup words to indicate which parts of speech they represent.
   • Jabberwocky
2. Highlight words according to the following scheme:
   • Nouns are to be highlighted in <hi>yellow</hi>
   • Verbs are to be highlighted in <hi cyan>blue</hi>
   • Adjectives are to be highlighted in <hi lime>green</hi>
   • Adverbs are to be highlighted in <hi pink>pink</hi>
   • Prepositional Phrases are to be underlined
3. Post your result on your Assignment View in Mahara

When you have completed both parts, submit your Mahara Assignment View for assessment. Remember to complete the two quizzes on the Moodle site as well.