English 1302 Final

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"Close prompt reading" is based on what two premises?

A) Academic writing is always prompted based on preliminary study B) Thesis organization support parameters are prompted

In order to correctly construct a bibliographic citation, what three things must you first know?

A) Bibliographic information B) The assigned style C) The assigned guide to the style

What are three conventional approaches to introductory backgrounding?

A) Historical Context B) Definition C) Review of the literature

What three types of database searches comprised our research methodology?

A) Periodical Database B) Book Database C) Web page Database

A prospectus develops "close prompt reading" into a plan for drafting an acadmic essay by clearly and completely composing what statements?

A) Thesis B) Key issue statements

Into what three rhetorical levels are points posited in a summary?

A) Thesis B) Organization C) Support

"Thesis" is is important in a draft that it is iterated and reiterated where?

A) Title B) The end of the introduction C) In each key issue statement D) At the beginning of the conclusion

What is one reason why web-page database searching is the least effective/efficient type of search?

A) get an unmanageable number of search results B) You don't get a BIP C) most of the results are not academic

In addition to print-text readings, in what other formats might preliminary study be presented?

A) note taking from lecture B) note taking from video

When positing a point borrowed from a secondary source, where must you use quotation marks?

Around exact phrases or signal words

In a periodical database search, what is one reason it is preferable to access, if both are available, a full-text article in PDF instead of HTML?

Because you get the originally published pagination for in-text documentation

When searching academic periodical or book databases, following a title link from the search results leads to what page?

Bibliographic Information Page (BIP)

If a periodical database does not offer an article in full text, what link should be followed to check for other availability?

Check full text finder with a link to inter-library loan

What is the purpose of a bibliographic citation?

It's a formal description to send the reader to the source based on the search strategy of the writer.

Why is the "preliminary study" of a prospective research topic initially determined by the course professor?

The course professor is the expert in the academic field and so is responsible for contextualizing the assigned study topic.

What are 5 of the 7 MLA manuscript style issues used to format formal academic writing?

1) 1st page only- heading 2) 1 inch margins 3) Header pagination 4) Double-line spacing 5) 12 point, Times New Roman font 6) Left alignment (never full) 7) Center the title

In MLA in-text documentation, what is the sequence for positing the first point borrowed from a paginated secondary source?

1st lead in with the author's professional name, then paraphrase the point and quote, then page documentation.

What is a "preliminary draft", as we used the phrase/concept this semester?

A complete draft (rhetorically and formally) ready for rhetorical analysis preliminary to the due date.

The decision to use multiple paragraphs for backgrounding and/or key issues in a draft should be based on what?

A plan for breaking the issue into parts; separately explained

In what order should bibliographic citation in a Works Cited page be listed?

Alphabetical by authors last name.

What is the formal attribution of a point to its source called?

In-text documentation

What does a database interface require the researcher to do in order to search that database?

Input subject search terms based on the preliminary study.

How should a works cited page be paginated?

On a separate page but continuously paginated.

In MLA in-text documentation, when positing points borrowed from a source in HTML, what must you do to compensate for not including a page citation?

Point by point lead in with the author's professional name, then posit point, then lead-in with the authors last name, then point, then lead in with author's last name.....etc

What is a database of web-pages more commonly called?

a search engine


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