ENG 1100

Which of the following characteristics of your writing will be affected or determined by your purpose for writing?

All of these characteristics will be affected by your purpose for writing.

Which example illustrates a genre of writing?

All of these examples illustrate types of genres.

Which of the following questions can you ask yourself to help you shape your writing to suit your audience?

All of these questions would help you shape your writing in light of your audience.

Which of the following is the BEST question to ask yourself to help you identify your primary purpose for writing?

Are you writing mostly to entertain, inform, or persuade?

Which of the following actions is an example of metacognitive thinking?

When you finish an assignment, you make some notes on what you did well, what problems you had, and how you solved them (or not).

Which of the following statements about ways to respond to a text is true?

You may focus on how your personal beliefs influenced the way you understood the text.

Which of the following statements BEST describes how you should use the ideas of others in your academic writing?

You should present the ideas of others in conversation with your own ideas, quoting, paraphrasing, or summarizing what others have said and then agreeing, disagreeing, or both.

Which statement BEST describes the relationship between stance and audience?

Your stance should suit your relationship to your audience and the way in which you wish your audience to perceive you.

Which statement BEST reflects how your tone communicates your stance in writing?

Your tone expresses an attitude toward your subject through the words you choose.

The MOST difficult audience to write for is which of the following?

an unknown audience

The writing prompt "Examine T.S. Eliot's use of figurative language in 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock'" indicates which genre should be followed?

literary analysis

Imagine that you are writing an essay arguing a position that you will both submit to your local newspaper's editorial board and turn in to your instructor to fulfill a class assignment. Which type of audience would this proposal have?

multiple audiences

Which of the following strategies can help you stay focused and engaged during lectures?

taking notes and identifying the main ideas during lectures

Treating school as you would a job is a tip offered to help you develop which of the following academic habits of mind?

taking responsibility for your own actions

To achieve a particular purpose or connect with an audience in a particular way, writers may tweak the features or combine elements of different genres.

true

Which of the following strategies could you use in your writing to convey confidence and establish your authority to write about your subject?

using active verbs and straightforward prose

Which of the following is a useful tip for persisting in college?

All of these are useful tips for persisting in college.

Which of the following questions can help you determine how your stance should be reflected in your tone?

Do your words reflect the attitude you want to convey?

Which of the following examples illustrates a medium of communication?

Each of these examples illustrates a medium of communication.

Academic writing is generally expected to be about as subjective and biased as other types of writing.Academic writing is generally expected to be about as subjective and biased as other types of writing.

False

If you disagree with someone else's ideas, it's best to immediately state your own opinion and forgo any further discussion.

False

In college courses, your assignments will always specify a particular medium and design.

False

For a first-year writing course, which of the following outcomes, as defined by the National Council of Writing Program Administrators (WPA), relates to a knowledge of rhetoric?

Read and write texts in a number of different genres, and understand how your purpose may influence your writing.

After you've defined what your purpose is, which of the following is the BEST question to ask when thinking about how to achieve that purpose?

Should you write in a certain genre?

Which of the following statements BEST describes the relationship between the medium you choose and the organization and writing strategies you use?

The medium you choose will likely affect your organizational and writing strategies.

The term "multimedia" MOST CLOSELY refers to which of the following?

a combination of media used to achieve a particular purpose

Which of the following strategies could you use in your writing to demonstrate that you've considered your subject thoughtfully, which is an expectation of academic writing?

citing authoritative sources

If you are assigned to write about whether or not you like something or whether it's a good or bad example of a category, you are MOST LIKELY expected to write in what genre?

evaluation

You should choose your tone without regard for other elements of your rhetorical situation.

false

Which of the following characteristics of one's writing would be considered a design element?

headings

Say you write an email to your boss that begins, "Hey lady, I don't know who you think you are cutting my hours without talking to me first." This opening MOST CLOSELY conveys which of the following stances?

irreverent

In a college writing course, you will be expected to submit writing with few, if any, errors.

true

Why is it important to read a text carefully before you summarize it?

so you can capture the writer's intended meaning as clearly and evenhandedly as possible in your summary

Which of the following factors should not influence your choice of genre?

whether readers will agree with your position

When writing a summary, you should use quotations from the text frequently to illustrate your understanding of the author's main ideas.

False

Paul Krugman's primary purpose in the excerpt from "Money and Morals" is which of the following?

He is persuading readers to see economic trends in a new way.

In any piece of writing, how much background information should you give your audience about your topic?

The amount of background information you give your audience should vary depending on what your audience already knows about your topic.

Which of the following aspects of the original text should you always include in a summary?

the text's main ideas

Most writing has several purposes at the same time.

true

When is it important to introduce a statement with a signal phrase?

when the statement summarizes something that the author says in the text