Comp 1 Final Study Guide
According to Brandon Grigg's essay "The Most Annoying Facebookers," how many Facebook friends does the average user have?
120.
Your borrowed information in any form - quote, paraphrase, or summary - should not exceed what percentage of the paper?
20%
William Least Heat-Moon wrote the essay "Starruca Viaduct." What is that?
A 19th century masonry bridge for trains.
What is a running head in APA style?
A header that includes an abbreviated title in all uppercase letter at the top of each page.
What is post hoc fallacy?
An assumption that because one event preceded another, it must have caused the other.
Coherence in an essay between paragraphs and ideas depends on what?
Appropriate transition use, parallel structure, in ideas and components, and repetition of keyword.
In Annie Dillard's narrative "from an American Childhood," she relates that boys taught her how to play football. Which other sport was she welcomed to play with them as well?
Baseball.
In Langston Hughes' "Salvation," why is the narrator crying at the end of the narrative?
Because he cannot bear to tell his aunt and congregation that he has deceived them.
Good writing is which of the following: descriptive, explanatory, concise, or flowery.
Concise Writing.
Which of the following is not accepted practice in the college essay? • Essays have as many paragraphs as needed. • Essays will ALWAYS follow the three-point/five-paragraph structure. • Paragraphs are usually between one-third and two-thirds of a page depending on the assignment. • Essays should be supported by sources when needed.
Essays will ALWAYS follow the three-point/five-paragraph structure.
T/F: Summaries and paraphrases of sources do not require documentation.
False
True or False: Anna Quindlen's essay "The C Word in the Hallway" uses a reference to Charles Manson killing the inhabitants of Sharon Tate's home as an example of violence.
False
True or False: You do not have to cite a source if you only paraphrase and do not quote directly from it?
False
True or False: If you borrow text from one of your previous essays, you don't have to cite it, and it is not considered plagiarism.
False.
True or False: If you cite a source incorrectly, it is not plagiarism because you attempted to cite the information.
False.
True or False: In order to create cohesion, the paragraphs in the body should just be vaguely related to the ideas in the topic sentences of the thesis.
False.
True or False: The title of the following novel is formatted correctly: To Kill a Mockingbird.
False. Titles of Novels are Italicized.
What are the characteristics of writing concisely?
Getting rid of redundancies, reducing clauses to phrases and eliminating unnecessary words, and getting rid of intensifiers like "really" and "severely" unless they really do intensify a word.
At the end of the essay "Me Talk Pretty One Day," what does David Sedaris discover that he has accomplished?
He can understand what his teacher is saying.
Which of the following sentences is most concise: • He was late to English because he had to finish his math test. • He found his neighbor who lived next door to be attractive in appearance. • Due to the fact that the holidays are coming up, I will start my diet in January. • During the time when I lived in South Carolins, it was my intention to go to college in Florida.
He was late to English because he had to finish his math test.
In Lauren Fulmore's "Chasing Fairy Tales," what is it that the narrator feels is "about as magical as it gets" at the end of the narrative?
Her family who loves her.
A blocked quote has what characteristics?
It is used when you have a quote that is longer than four typed lines, the entire quote is indented one full inch, and it begins with a signal phrase ending in a colon and ends with a citation that has no punctuation after it.
We consume, create, and convey texts in different media using multiple modes of communication What are those modes?
Linguistic, visual, aural, spatial, and gestural.
In Ruiz-Camacho's essay "Souvenirs," he compares his hometown of Toluca to what American city?
Los Angeles.
The following is an example of what kind of grammar error: The monarch arrived in a gold carriage pulled at the gate by four white horses.
Misplaced Modifier.
Which of the following is not a logical fallacy? • Non-Ipsoloquitor • Begging the Question • Oversimplification • Hasty Generalization
NonIpsoloquitor.
In Charlie Spence's "Sixteen," the author is a proponent of what issue?
Not trying juveniles as adults in the justice system.
Barbara Lazear Ascher's essay "The Box Man" compares the boxman to whom/what?
Other lonely people.
Which of the following is NOT considered one of the types of evidence used in reasoned arguments? • Personal Opinion • Opinions of Recognized Experts • Facts • Examples
Personal Opinion
In the essay "Desert Dance" by Marta Taylor, what natural phenomenon was rarely seen in Taylor's childhood?
Rain.
What is the three-step process to using quotes effectively?
Set up the quote, use the quote and cite it properly, and explain how/why the quote helps prove the point you are making.
What is the correct order of items in the MLA heading?
Student name, teacher name, class name, and date.
What is the main point Quindlen is trying to make in her essay "The C Word in the Hallway"?
That mental illness must be addressed when considering solutions to school shootings.
How can you create cohesion in your essays?
Tie each topic sentence to the thesis statement, use transitional words and phrases, and tie your conclusion back to the introduction by reiterating the thesis statement.
True or False: Copying another person's weekly work, even if you change the wording a little bit, is considered academic dishonesty and subject to consequences of plagiarism.
True.
True or False: Emotional appeals call on people's deeply felt needs and desires, including those related to creativity, fear, and conformity.
True.
True or False: In APA style, you create a separate title page.
True.
True or False: In MLA, any longer work such as a novel, newspaper, magazine, book of poems, or websites must be italicized in your typed papers.
True.
True or False: In MLA, you do not apply any special formatting to the title of your essay. That is, you do not underline, italicize, or place your title in quotation marks.
True.
True or False: Plagiarism is the use of another person's thoughts or ideas as your own.
True.
True or False: The following sentence is written in proper academic voice - School uniforms benefit students by eliminating competition based on designer labels.
True.
True or False: When designing a multimodal text, you must make rhetorical choices about how to use the different modes?
True.
True or False: With both MLA and APA format, every source used as a reference must be cited within the essay.
True.
True or False: You do not have to cite common knowledge (ex. Christopher Columbus discovered America).
True.
Which of the following is NOT a reason for the importance of using precise language in academic writing? • It is a writer's job in academic writing to convey meaning for the reader. • Clearly spelling out relationships between words and meaning is the goal of all expository writing. • Twenty-first-century careers include his type of clear and concise writing routinely; therefore, learning to do it competently can be beneficial to one's future. • Two thousand words is 2000 words even if some of those words are meaningless; as long as you meet the assignment, you should be fine.
Two thousand words is 2000 words even if some of those words are meaningless; as long as you meet the assignment, you should be fine.
How does Roberto Rodriguez define apartheid?
Twotiered society.
What should you include if you delete text from quoted material?
Use ellipses (...) to show that something was deleted.
What of the following is not a component of narrative writing? • Chronological order • The revelation of the point or lesson learned • Clear and present point of view • Using sources to support the ideas present in the narrative
Using sources to support the ideas present in the narrative.
What should you consider when you are thinking about your audience for an essay.
Who will read it, what readers may already know about it, and what impression you may want to make on readers?
Which of the following can contribute to awkward wording? • Wordiness • Dangling Modifier • Repetitiveness • Pronoun Clarity
• Wordiness • Dangling Modifier • Repetitiveness
