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Question 1 What advantages are there to creating a mind map as part of your prewriting strategy?
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a. A mind map lets you work without writing, since you just connect thoughts in your mind.

b. A mind map can help you connect lots of different ideas about a single topic.

c. A mind map helps you craft the sentences you’ll use in your final draft.  Incorrect

Question 2 You are creating a revision checklist for your essay. Which of these activities belong on this checklist?
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a. Check carefully for each in-text citation, and remove each one for the final draft.

b. Analyze your paper’s overall organization, and make sure that every body paragraph’s main point ties in to
your thesis.  Correct

c. Make sure that your line spacing is set correctly and that it’s applied properly throughout the entire essay.

Question 3 What does the term “fresh eyes” mean in the proofreading stage of the writing process?
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a. Approaching a topic from a completely different perspective at the last minute, to make sure that you’ve
covered all content areas possible in the essay

b. Giving yourself a break of time between revision and proofreading to allow you to catch proofreading
mistakes you might otherwise not have noticed  Correct

c. Completing a peer review to get input on your thesis and organizational approach

Question 4 Which scenario best describes the task of personalizing an assigned topic?
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a. Sahra finds two recently-published articles by a top scholar in the field.

b. Zian chooses “acid rain” as something that interests him about the topic “climate problems.”  Correct

c. Marco creates a list of words that he frequently spells wrong or uses incorrectly.

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Question 5 Which of the following passages demonstrates a more effective use of quoted material?
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A. “Since the 1950s,” educational expert Dwayne Robison writes, “government spending on education has
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gone up 233%, while increases in test results have only gone up 15%. This is a worrying fact for anyone
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arguing that increasing government spending will help our kids” (Robison 98).
B. Government spending on schools has gone up 233% since the 1950s and had very little positive effect,
something that Dwayne Robison calls a “worrying fact for anyone arguing that increasing government
spending will help our kids” (Robison 98). His research shows that government spending is not the most
viable way to improve American education.

Select one:
a. B, because the author paraphrases and quotes in the same sentence.

b. A, because it includes the entire quote, so that the readers can see it for themselves.

c. B, because the author incorporates the quote into a larger argument.  Correct

Question 6 You are encouraged to begin the drafting process of your essay by focusing on one of the middle sections
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a. In this phase, you are actually more focused on spelling and grammar than on anything else

b. You should not have developed an outline at this point, so thinking about structure comes later

c. The beginning and end of your paper are hard to write until you know what you’re actually saying 
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Question 7 Which of the following strategies can best help you proofread for sentence clarity?
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a. Make sure that you use exclamation marks often for emphasis.

b. Read through the essay looking only for pronouns and their antecedents to make sure they match. 
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c. Use “I” and “you” as referents, since these informal words help your readers understand that they are being
addressed.

Question 8 You are interviewing a professional writer about the drafting process, and ask her how many drafts she writes for
Correct every book she publishes. What is she most likely to say?
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a. “I always plan on exactly three drafts, and by then, everything is always ready to go.”

b. “Because drafting and revising is an ongoing and important process, this is a hard question to answer, but
I’m in that stage for a while.”  Correct

c. “I’m a one-and-done writer! There’s never a need for me to re-draft and revise.”

Question 9 Which of the following is true about the different essay structures, such as analytical, argumentative, and cause
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a. These structure types vary in that some of them count as academic writing and some of them do not.

b. The structure types vary in that for some of them, your claim or opinion drives the paper, and for others,
you just have to list facts.

c. These structure types all share similar qualities of academic writing, but they differ according to the
purpose of the essay.  Correct

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Question 10 Which scenario best describes the task of focusing on a problem to help you find a topic?
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a. After an assigned reading, you realize that you’ve never thought about why there are so few women in
engineering.  Correct

b. You read several journal articles on the topic of astronomy, and realize that this is a field you want to
know more about.

c. You realize that you need several more topics to free-write about.

Question 11 Which of the following is the most effective thesis statement?

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a. The problem of homeless youth can best be solved by private charities.

b. Many toy companies create advertisements to appeal to young children.

c. There are real advantages and disadvantages to being homeschooled.  Incorrect

Question 12 You are peer-reviewing and notice that the paper you’re reading has problems on several levels. What strategy
Correct should you offer the writer to make his revision time the most effective?
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a. Read backwards: start with your conclusion, and fix problems there. Then, move to your second-to-last
paragraph, and so forth.

b. Start with the smallest “building blocks,” like words and sentences, and revise those first. Then move on to
the larger issues.

c. First, look at “larger” problems like the thesis and paper organization, and then move to “smaller”
problems like sentence structure.  Correct

Question 13 Which of these three strategies is the most likely to help you proofread your essays most effectively?
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A. Read your paper in two-sentence chunks and then pause between each.
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B. If you stumble over a sentence, mark it for revision.
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C. Circle places where you could add extra adjectives.

Select one:
a. C, because adjectives help your readers better envision the points you’re making.

b. A, because this is a normal reading speed for most readers, so you can spot errors this way.

c. B, because if you stumble over a sentence, so will your readers.  Correct

Question 14 Which of the following is the most effective to use as evidence in a research paper about the history of safety
Correct regulations in the American auto industry?
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a. A re-telling of a car crash that you survived as a child

b. A chart that explains the results of Ford Motor Company’s latest crash test results  Correct

c. A paragraph that explains what injuries are most common after car crashes

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Question 15 You are peer-reviewing a paper that uses quotation marks around material that the writer has not quoted word
Incorrect for word. The author calls these passages “summaries.” What feedback should you give to help this author write a
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Select one:
a. Summaries are actually overviews of an entire text. They don’t include word-for-word phrases.

b. You can use quotation marks when you summarize a text, as long as you start your sentence with a phrase
like “In this summary…”  Incorrect

c. If you have the author’s material in their own words, direct quotations are far more effective than
summaries.

Question 16 To effectively build an argument for your paper, you should

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a. focus on a problem in that area.  Correct

b. pre-write about as many topics as possible.

c. proofread your peer’s papers carefully.

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