Test Bank to accompany Thurman/Gary T ICKET TO W RITE W RITING C OLLEGE E SSAYS Susan Sommers Thurman Henderson Community College iii CONTENTS Reading-Writing Connection Chapter 1 Quiz 1 Review of the Writing Process Chapter 2 2 Quiz Reflective Writing Chapter 3 4 Quiz Analytical Writing Chapter 4 6 Quiz Position Writing Chapter 5 8 Quiz Profile Writing Chapter 6 10 Quiz Informative Writing Chapter 7 12 Quiz Writing a Research Paper Chapter 8 14 Quiz Workplace Writing Chapter 9 15 Quiz College Competencies Chapter 10 16 Quiz Skills for Writing in College, Sentence Fragments and Run-Ons Part 2 18 Quiz Skills for Writing in College, Errors in Pronoun Usage Part 2 19 Quiz Skills for Writing in College, Errors in Verb Usage Part 2 20 Quiz Skills for Writing in College, Errors in Subject-Verb Agreement Part 2 21 Quiz Skills for Writing in College, Errors in Modifiers Part 2 22 Quiz Skills for Writing in College, Errors in Punctuation Part 2 23 Answer Key Reading-Writing Connection Chapter 1 Quiz 25 Answer Key Review of the Writing Process Chapter 2 Quiz 26 Answer Key Reflective Writing Chapter 3 Quiz 27 Answer Key Analytical Writing Chapter 4 Quiz 28 Answer Key Position Writing Chapter 5 Quiz 29 iv Answer Key Profile Writing Chapter 6 Quiz 30 Answer Key Informative Writing Chapter 7 Quiz 31 Answer Key Writing a Research Paper Chapter 8 Quiz 32 Answer Key Workplace Writing Chapter 9 Quiz 33 Answer Key College Competencies Chapter 10 Quiz 34 Answer Key Quiz Skills for Writing in College, Sentence Fragments and Run-Ons Part 2 35 Answer Key Quiz Skills for Writing in College, Errors in Pronoun Usage Part 2 36 Answer Key Quiz Skills for Writing in College, Errors in Verb Usage Part 2 37 Answer Key Quiz Skills for Writing in College, Errors in Subject-Verb Agreement Part 2 38 Answer Key Quiz Skills for Writing in College, Sentence Fragments and Run-Ons Part 2 39 Answer Key Quiz Skills for Writing in College, Errors in Pronoun Usage Part 2 40 Answer Key Quiz Skills for Writing in College, Errors in Verb Usage Part 2 41 Answer Key Quiz Skills for Writing in College, Errors in Subject-Verb Agreement Part 2 42 Answer Key Quiz Skills for Writing in College, Errors in Modifiers Part 2 43 Answer Key Quiz Skills for Writing in College, Errors in Punctuation Part 2 44 1 Reading-Writing Connection Chapter 1 Quiz Assess your knowledge of the reading-writing connection with the quiz below. Answer on the lines or spaces provided. 1. When you read critically, you first understand what you read, then you review what you read. The third step is to ____________________________ what you read. 2. According to studies, your reading comprehension is more extensive if you take a short time before you begin reading to consider __________________________________ . 3. Activating your background knowledge involves taking a short time before reading to review ______________________________________________________________________ . 4. When you anticipate what might come in a work of nonfiction, what do you do? __________________________________________________________________________ 5. When you anticipate what might come in a work of fiction, what do you do? __________________________________________________________________________ 6. In critical reading, annotating has two advantages. It helps you understand material on a deeper level and ______________________________________________. 7. If you are critically reading difficult material, you should stop and ask questions to be sure you understand what you are reading after _________________________________. 8. When critically reading difficult material, you should stop and ask questions (as you noted in the question above). Identify one other technique you should use if you are critically reading difficult material. __________________________________________________________________________ 10. If you have studied and are still unclear about reading material, what should you do? __________________________________________________________________________ 2 Review of the Writing Process Chapter 2 Assess your knowledge of the writing process with the quiz below. Answer on the lines or spaces provided. 1. The first step of the writing process is prewriting. What do you do in this step? ___________________________________________________________________________ 2. The second step of the writing process is discovery drafting. What do you do in this step? ________________________________________________________________________ 3. A thesis statement should be (1) your opinion, observation, or idea about your subject, (2) a straightforward, declarative sentence, (3) a reflection of your knowledge, experience, beliefs, or research, (4) only __________________________________. 4. In generating ideas, you will find ideas that prove or illustrate your main idea and develop these into body paragraphs that do what? ___________________________________________________________________________ 5. When you are developing individual points when generating ideas, you should make sure that each point gives appropriate support for what? ___________________________________________________________________________ 6. What is the best way to approach revision, the third step in the writing process? ___________________________________________________________________________ 3 7. When you tweak your work in editing, part of the fourth step in the writing process, you look for sentences or paragraphs that should be _______________________________? 8. When you tweak your work in proofreading, part of the fourth step in the writing process you check you work to correct what type of errors? ___________________________________________________________________________ 9. What happens in a peer review? ___________________________________________________________________________ 10. In the writing process, what does publishing , the final step in the writing process, usually mean? ___________________________________________________________________________ 4 Quiz Reflective Writing Chapter 3 Assess your knowledge of reflective writing with the quiz below. Answer on the lines or spaces provided. 1. Reflective writing is _______________ writing in which you elaborate on an experience, a feeling, or a belief. 2. What are three common types of reflective writing? ___________________________________________________________________________ 3. When choosing a topic for your reflective essay, keep in mind that you will ultimately need a topic that you can support through what? ___________________________________________________________________________ 4. Sight, sound, smell, taste, and texture are the five types of ____________________________ (often used in reflective essays)? 5. Identify one of the objectives you have in creating the discovery draft of your reflective essay. ___________________________________________________________________________ 6. In a reflective essay, your thesis statement should illustrate what? ___________________________________________________________________________ 7. In a reflective essay, explaining your supporting details and interpreting their meaning well helps readers understand how these supporting details expand on what? ___________________________________________________________________________ 8. Name the three ways might you organize your reflective essay. ___________________________________________________________________________ 5 9. When you think critically about the purpose of your reflective essay, you should ask yourself if readers will understand why your description, illustration, narration (or combination of these) is ___________________________________. 10. Identify one of the areas you should check when you edit and proofread your reflective essay. ___________________________________________________________________________ 6 Quiz Analytical Writing Chapter 4 Assess your knowledge of analytical writing with the quiz below. Answer on the lines or spaces provided. 1. Process writing, one type of analytical writing describes the ______________ necessary to do something. 2. In comparison-and-contrast writing, one of the types of analytical writing, comparisons show the ____________________________ between two people, places, or things. 3. In comparison-and-contrast writing, one of the types of analytical writing, contrasts show the ____________________________ between two people, places, or things. 4. Classification writing, one of the types of analytical writing, sorts a general subject into what? ______________________________________________________________________________ 5. Identify one of the methods of cause-and-effect writing, a type of analytical writing. ______________________________________________________________________________ 6. As you choose a topic for an analytical essay, you need a topic you can develop by ____________________________ an issue, problem, or process or by presenting your ____________________________ based on facts and observations. 7. Your point-and-purpose statement the basis for your ____________________________. 8. No matter what your purpose is in your analytical essay, you must support the point you want to make with what? 9. In examining organization for any process writing part of your analytical essay, you should make sure the steps in a list are ________________________, ________________________, and _____________________________________. 7 10. In critically thinking, what question should you ask yourself about an analytical essay’s purpose? 8 Position Writing Chapter 5 Assess your knowledge of position writing with the quiz below. Answer on the lines or spaces provided. 1. The purpose of position writing is to tell readers what a specific word or phrase means or to show why its meaning is ___________________________. 2. In position writing, you must convince your audience that you are ______________ about an issue and that you understand both __________________________. 3. In position writing, you must convince your audience that you are trustworthy; you do that by showing audiences that you and the authorities or sites you use are ________________. 4. In position writing, your working thesis statement (and what later becomes your thesis statement) must be written in ____________________ person. 5. What is a word’s denotation? ______________________________________________________________________________ 6. What is a word’s connotation? ______________________________________________________________________________ 7. In position writing, what kind of questions help you find counterarguments to your position? ______________________________________________________________________________ 8. In your position writing, what should you provide if you use words or phrases in a special way or you use words or phrases that would otherwise be unknown to your audience? ______________________________________________________________________________ 9. For most position essays, where should you clearly state your position? ______________________________________________________________________________ 9 10. In a position essay, what should your thesis statement include? ______________________________________________________________________________ 10 Quiz Profile Writing Chapter 6 Assess your knowledge of position writing with the quiz below. Answer on the lines or spaces provided. 1. A profile essay highlights specific features of __________________________ 2. In creating questions for your interview, you should avoid short-response questions and questions that are too ______________________. 3. You can find pay scale ranges the book titled _______________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ 4. In drafting your profile essay, think about what you found unique or fascinating about your subject and about the ___________________________ your subject offered that helped you understand him or her better. 5. As you compose the discovery draft for your profile essay, you should focus on proving your ___________________________ by illustrating your profile subject, sharing what your subject said and did. 6. In your profile essay, your thesis statement should include the identity of your profile subject and why you find your subject _____________________________________. 7. For support, early in your profile essay you should describe your subject and the ________________________________. 8. In a profile essay, anecdotes provide stories that help do what? ______________________________________________________________________________ 9. In critically thinking about your purpose in your profile essay, ask yourself if readers will understand what? ______________________________________________________________________________ 11 10. In critically thinking about reasoning in your profile essay, ask yourself if, based on the information you related from or about your subject, you have arrived at what? ______________________________________________________________________________