Write 101 Beyond the Five Paragraph Essay Quiz

An organic writer thinks of writing as:

A way to figure out what he or she thinks.

A conclusion often contains which of the following?

An emotional appeal connected to the logic of the piece

True or False. Conclusions should be written last because they are the last part of a piece that readers see.

False

True or False. Conclusions should begin with the words "in conclusion" to help guide readers through a written piece.

False

A writer who is structuring an essay organically might do which of the following?

Revise his or her thesis while writing the paper

True or False. Organically-structured essays compel thinking.

True

How could the sentences in this paragraph be organized more logically? Put the sentences in order by number. [1] Such judgment and criticism may often lead to feelings of guilt and anxiety, more so for mothers than fathers. [2] In contrast, fathers returning to the workforce after the birth of their child are considered professional and responsible. [3] Working mothers are also perceived as less committed to the family than non-working mothers. [4] One gender stereotype suggests that women who return to work following the birth of a child are considered less competent than those women in the workforce without children.

4, 3, 2, 1

Which of the following scenarios is a good use for a "rank order" paragraph organization?

A paragraph describing the circumstances leading to the election of Donald Trump.

Which of the following represents an organically-structured argument?

An introduction contextualizes the current status of the federal health care program, the next paragraph focuses on one element of the program, followed by several paragraphs showing the positive and negative consequences of that element, leading to a cost-benefit analysis of the element, and concluding with support for or opposition to the element.

Nina is writing her conclusion to an Urban Planning project where she spent part of the semester interviewing people at homeless shelters. She realized during her interviews that many of the homeless people wanted badly to work but needed a permanent address for job applications. Thus, her paper evolved into a plan to open a series of halfway houses that could help reduce the city's homeless population while helping to fill some positions that stay open or experience high turnover. Which of the following passages would best fit in her conclusion?

As you can see from the data provided, we have the financial capacity and a clear economic purpose to create halfway homes that would provide permanent addresses for many of the city's homeless; however, we should do so not simply for these reasons but because it is the right action to take in terms of helping our less fortunate citizens find greater meaning and a chance at more happiness in their lives.

True or False: The bold sentence in the paragraph below is the key/topic sentence: Thus we may hint at the greater, more serious, phase of the road problem. Beside it, the financial feature of the problem can have no place; the farm has been too much to the American nation, its product of boys and girls has been too eternally precious to the cause of liberty for which our nation stands, to permit a system of highways on this continent which will make it a place where now in the twentieth century foreigners, only, can be happy. The sociological side of the road question is of more moment today in this country, so far as the health of our body politic in the future is concerned, than nine-tenths of the questions most prominent in the two political platforms that come annually before the people.

False

Which of the following is an additive transition?

Including

Locating readers in a specific time and/or place is best accomplished in which part of a paper?

Introduction

Which of the following would work best as the first sentence in an argument paper on how families can work together to cut back on social media use?

Parents probably already know that their kids spend a lot of time on digital devices, but a 2016 study shows teens on average spend close to a whopping nine hours per day on social media.

Read the following short introduction paragraph from a thesis-driven Literary Analysis assignment and determine which is the best organizational structure: Bierce uses images of fire, heat, and light versus darkness to create a religious struggle within Peyton Fahrquhar. Though Ambrose Bierce was renowned for his keen sense of humor, his short story "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" is anything but witty. The story appears to readers to be a tale of Civil War soldier Fahrquhar's last minutes before his death by hanging. Underneath the surface, Bierce is telling a story of a man's struggle between Heaven and Hell, and then, the final moments that decide his fate.

The introduction would work better if what is currently the first sentence became the final sentence of the paragraph in order to better build up to the thesis statement.

Which of the following characterizes a formulaic structure?

The paper's structure is related to its content

Identify the logical problem in this paragraph: The "prison industrial complex" is a term that describes a complex interlocking web of institutions that extends outward beyond any one jail or prison into the larger political economy and loops back to the thousands of jails and prisons that house men and women for crimes for which they have been convicted. Prisoners are alienated and forced to work to reduce the time for their crimes, and some are often not compensated at all. Major corporations like Wal-Mart, JC Penny, AT&T, and ExxonMobil were among a few notable companies that participate in the exploitation of the prison labor. The prison industrial complex is like a hungry lion that has to be fed and its growth has been substantial. This enterprise is governed by the principles of earning a profit for the private sector rather than fulfilling basic human needs.

The paragraph has no logical problems

Which of the following is a formulaic thesis statement?

The university should designate more parking spaces because the student population is growing, more out-of-state students are coming to the university, and fewer faculty members are being hired.