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Question 25
When considering a rational appeal argument, statistics:
Answer are data showing how much, how many, or how often.
are always trusted, so they should always be used.
are always clear to readers.
are always from reliable sources, never from your own investigations.
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2 points
Question 26
Which of the following uses of an adjective or an adverb is CORRECT?
Answer Eating good is always Uncle Bill’s motivation.
Knowing her studies well was her focus.
I want to go to see that movie so bad.
He felt badly because of his cold.
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2 points
Question 27
Which of the following adjective or adverb double comparisons is CORRECT?
Answer He was the most smartest man I ever knew.
Lindsey watched the scariest movie ever.
When I was in Europe, I went to the most coolest sites there were.
I was the more littler of my brothers and sisters.
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2 points
Question 28
When organizing your draft, you want to avoid:
Answer creating labeled flexible notes.
developing a rough plan-a list of points in order.
holding yourself to that draft and rigidly refusing to revise.
writing a quick draft to find your focus and pattern.
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2 points
Question 29
Which of the following BEST describes personal experience, a kind of evidence used in rational appeal arguments?
Answer The only kind of personal experience is your own.
Using personal experience as your evidence is the only evidence that you will need to be persuasive.
Personal experience can deliver an argumentative message more forcefully than other kinds of arguments.
Readers always accept personal experience as quality evidence.
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2 points
Question 30
Which of the following demonstrates a CORRECT use of quotation marks?
Answer My mother often said something like “life is hard.”
“When you come for dinner,” she said insistently, “we will catch up on all our lost years.”
I was the only one to read Shakespeare’s “MacBeth” as a comedy.
He questions everything, often saying “What do you mean by that”?
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Question 31
Which of the following statements about plagiarism is TRUE?
Answer Plagiarism is a somewhat serious offense.
The academic world is committed to protecting ethics and integrity in the transmission of information.
Freedom of information and inquiry come with the obligation of academic dishonesty.
Documentation styles exist as a way of complicating student’s academic lives.
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2 points
Question 32
Which of the following is NOT a type of definition you might use in a definition essay?
Answer Essential definition
Synonyms
Extended
Antonyms
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2 points
Question 33
Which of the follow is NOT a mixed sentence?
Answer An idea like that one would be a great situation in which to be.
An extension is when an instructor gives you more time to complete an assignment.
The reason that I was late getting to your party was because my car had a flat tire.
These regulations were established to help curb trafficking.
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2 points
Question 34
Which of the following demonstrates the CORRECT use or omission of an apostrophe?
Answer These contributions are all hers.
When businesses’s refer customers, they often strengthen their own business.
The childrens’ toys were all over the house, even in the fish tank.
Its such a good idea that we are going to fund the whole project.
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2 points
Question 35
Which of the following is NOT a step in taking a first look at your writing?
Answer Applying principles of good writing
Knowing your discourse community
Knowing your audience and purpose
Annotating source material
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2 points
Question 36
Which of the following demonstrates the CORRECT use or omission of a colon?
Answer James and I agree on many things, but there is one thing on which we will never agree: politics.
The three things I like to do at the beach are: go swimming, pick up shells, and make sand castles.
While traveling through Northern Washington State, we encountered many wild animals mainly deer and birds.
The train was wonderful: and also exciting.
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2 points
Question 37
Which of the following demonstrates a CORRECT use of APA convention?
Answer Two or more references within the same parenthetical citation: (Phillips, Toliver, 2009, 2001).
Multiple sources in a single sentence: Hampton (1982) often argued against trade relations with Communist countries, there are other studies that suggest that these relations are necessary, Jones (1983).
Paraphrase of a work by one author: Ellison (1952) wrote that the only means for understanding the place of the black man in society is to understand that all of the roles prescribed to him are false and oppressive.
An embedded quote: While Logi (2003, p. 247) contends that states’ rights should remain the center of political debate, he also concedes that “when a nation is at war, then the focus should be on that effort.”
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2 points
Question 38
Which of the following is a CORRECT use or omission of a comma?
Answer I am going to the store to buy bread milk and cheese.
She wants to see the Grand Canyon scale the mountain, and go scuba diving.
Jeremy was often described as chipper, well dressed, and on time.
They ate expensive food that they could not afford, and had desserts they could not pronounce, and danced the night away.
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Question 39
Which of the following demonstrates a grammatically CORRECT use of numbers?
Answer Ben has one thousand seven hundred and fifty two comic books in his collection.
She was born on February fourteenth, 1990, making her a Valentine’s Day baby.
400 people showed up for the convention.
Only 36% of students own their own home while attending a university program.
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2 points
Question 40
When considering the effectiveness of your sentences, you should try to:
Answer include wordiness in your sentences, as this often makes your prose sound smarter.
ensure that all of your sentences are the same level of complexity and length.
avoid fragments in all situations, as they are always conversational.
keep sentence-level parallelism in mind at all times.
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Question 41
Which of the following is NOT a double negative?
Answer I am not unsure about which was correct.
He was not hardly ever at home.
Sandra did not do nothing for a living.
Henry cannot go with us to Canada.
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2 points
Question 42
Which of the following statements BEST describes inductive reasoning?
Answer Inductive reasoning makes conclusions provable, but rarely makes them probable.
Induction is rarely achieved when a general claim is supported by specific evidence.
All inductive evidence only makes supported conclusions likely.
When you are using induction, it is not necessary to establish the credibility of your evidence.
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Question 43
Which of the following statements about working with the goals and requirements of the disciplines is TRUE?
Answer Academic writers always compose entirely out of their personal experience.
The methodology of a discipline is the way its practitioners study their subjects.
A primary source can never be a work of art.
Secondary sources are always works of art.
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2 points
Question 44
Which of the following is a CORRECT use or omission of a comma?
Answer December 24, 1981, is my date of birth.
November 9, 1989 is the day often credited with being the day that the Berlin Wall fell.
She often loved to spend the fall in Vancouver BC.
Send your complaints to 115 Singapore Drive Bickersdale, Minnesota, 83917.
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Question 45
When writing a summary about what you have read, which of the following should your summary NOT do?
Answer Provide a context for the essay
Introduce the author of the essay
Argue against the source’s argument
State the author’s main claim (thesis) and main points of the essay
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2 points
Question 46
Which of the following statements about arguments is TRUE?
Answer They always involve a direct conflict.
They are always about something that has not yet been decided.
They always call for some kind of action on the part of the reader.
They try to establish some common ground with the audience.
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Question 47
Which of the following is NOT an academic genre?
Answer A blog
Research reports
Literary analyses
Peer review
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2 points
Question 48
Which of the following statements about plagiarism is TRUE?
Answer When things are properly cited, the reader will know which material is from the student writer and which is from the source.
It is better to be told about plagiarism when you do it, rather than to train yourself to recognize and avoid it.
Misattribution is the word-for-word copying of a source.
Common knowledge is knowledge that people gain from using common sense.
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Which of the following is an authoritative opinion that would strengthen your argument if you were writing a rational appeal?
Answer Your neighbor, Ms. Betty, who has lived in the area for a few years, speaking about the weather changes
Your fifth-grade teacher discussing for collective bargaining rights for teachers
A concerned citizen charged up about the recent tax hikes
Dr. Phillips, whose life’s work has been studying Social Security, arguing against the newly proposed measures to change the retirement age
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2 points
Question 50
Which of the following is NOT an effective use of the emotional appeal to write an argument?
Answer Using hungry children to make a case about supporting local school-lunch programs
Using a gaunt, sickly cat as the face of an appeal for people to adopt pets only if they are prepared to take on the responsibility
Using a college student with a lost cell phone who wants to call home for an argument about free long distance service from dorm rooms
Using a thirsty homeless veteran as an argument for why veterans should receive greater benefits in the U.S.
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