Test Bank for Ticket to Write: Writing College Essays, MLA Update

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Test Bankto accompanyThurman/GaryTICKET TOWRITEWRITINGCOLLEGEESSAYSSusan Sommers ThurmanHenderson Community College

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iiiCONTENTSReading-Writing ConnectionChapter 1 Quiz1Review of the Writing ProcessChapter 22Quiz Reflective Writing Chapter 34Quiz Analytical Writing Chapter 46Quiz Position WritingChapter 58Quiz Profile WritingChapter 610Quiz Informative WritingChapter 712Quiz Writing a Research Paper Chapter 814Quiz Workplace WritingChapter 915Quiz College CompetenciesChapter 1016Quiz Skills for Writing in College, Sentence Fragments and Run-OnsPart 218Quiz Skills for Writing in College, Errors in Pronoun UsagePart 219Quiz Skills for Writing in College, Errors in Verb UsagePart 220Quiz Skills for Writing in College, Errors in Subject-Verb AgreementPart 221Quiz Skills for Writing in College, Errors in ModifiersPart 222Quiz Skills for Writing in College, Errors in PunctuationPart 223Answer Key Reading-Writing Connection Chapter 1 Quiz25Answer Key Review of the Writing ProcessChapter 2 Quiz26Answer Key Reflective Writing Chapter 3 Quiz27Answer Key Analytical Writing Chapter 4 Quiz28Answer Key Position Writing Chapter 5 Quiz29

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ivAnswer Key Profile Writing Chapter 6 Quiz30Answer Key Informative Writing Chapter 7 Quiz31Answer Key Writing a Research Paper Chapter 8 Quiz32Answer Key Workplace WritingChapter 9 Quiz33Answer Key College CompetenciesChapter 10 Quiz34Answer Key Quiz Skills for Writing in College, Sentence Fragments andRun-OnsPart 235Answer Key Quiz Skills for Writing in College, Errors in Pronoun UsagePart 236Answer Key Quiz Skills for Writing in College, Errors in Verb UsagePart 237Answer Key Quiz Skills for Writing in College, Errors in Subject-VerbAgreementPart 238Answer Key Quiz Skills for Writing in College, Sentence Fragments andRun-OnsPart 239Answer Key Quiz Skills for Writing in College, Errors in Pronoun UsagePart 240Answer Key Quiz Skills for Writing in College, Errors in Verb Usage Part 241Answer Key Quiz Skills for Writing in College, Errors in Subject-Verb AgreementPart 242Answer Key Quiz Skills for Writing in College, Errors in ModifiersPart 243Answer Key Quiz Skills for Writing in College, Errors in PunctuationPart 244

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1Reading-Writing Connection Chapter 1 QuizAssess your knowledge of the reading-writing connection with the quiz below. Answer on thelines 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 timebefore 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 adeeper level and ______________________________________________.7. If you are critically reading difficult material, you should stop and ask questions to be sure youunderstand what you are reading after _________________________________.8. When critically reading difficult material, you should stop and ask questions (as you noted inthe question above). Identify one other technique you should use if you are critically readingdifficult material.__________________________________________________________________________10. If you have studied and are still unclear about reading material, what should you do?__________________________________________________________________________

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2Review of the Writing ProcessChapter 2Assess your knowledge of the writing process with the quiz below. Answer on the lines or spacesprovided.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) astraightforward, 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 developthese into body paragraphs that do what?___________________________________________________________________________5. When you are developing individual points when generating ideas, you should make sure thateach point gives appropriate support for what?___________________________________________________________________________6. What is the best way to approach revision, the third step in the writing process?___________________________________________________________________________

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37. When you tweak your work in editing, part of the fourth step in the writing process, you lookfor sentences or paragraphs that should be _______________________________?8. When you tweak your work in proofreading, part of the fourth step in the writing process youcheck you work to correct what type of errors?___________________________________________________________________________9. What happens in a peer review?___________________________________________________________________________10. In the writing process, what doespublishing, the final step in the writing process, usuallymean?___________________________________________________________________________

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4Quiz Reflective Writing Chapter 3Assess your knowledge of reflective writing with the quiz below. Answer on the lines or spacesprovided.1. Reflective writing is _______________ writing in which you elaborate on an experience, afeeling, 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 atopic 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 wellhelps readers understand how these supporting details expand on what?___________________________________________________________________________8. Name the three ways might you organize your reflective essay.___________________________________________________________________________

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59. When you think critically about the purpose of your reflective essay, you should ask yourselfif readers will understand why your description, illustration, narration (or combination ofthese) is ___________________________________.10. Identify one of the areas you should check when you edit and proofread your reflective essay.___________________________________________________________________________

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6QuizAnalytical Writing Chapter 4Assess your knowledge of analytical writing with the quiz below. Answer on the lines or spacesprovided.1. Process writing, one type of analytical writing describes the ______________ necessary to dosomething.2. In comparison-and-contrast writing, one of the types of analytical writing, comparisons showthe ____________________________ 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 wantto make with what?9. In examining organization for any process writing part of your analytical essay, you shouldmake sure the steps in a list are ________________________, ________________________,and _____________________________________.

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710. In critically thinking, what question should you ask yourself about an analytical essay’spurpose?

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8Position Writing Chapter 5Assess your knowledge of position writing with the quiz below. Answer on the lines or spacesprovided.1. The purpose of position writing is to tell readers what a specific word or phrase means or toshow why its meaning is ___________________________.2. In position writing, you must convince your audience that you are ______________ about anissue and that you understand both __________________________.3. In position writing, you must convince your audience that you are trustworthy; you do that byshowing audiences that you and the authorities or sites you use are ________________.4. In position writing, your working thesis statement (and what later becomes your thesisstatement) 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 wayor 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?______________________________________________________________________________

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910. In a position essay, what should your thesis statement include?______________________________________________________________________________

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10Quiz Profile Writing Chapter 6Assess your knowledge of position writing with the quiz below. Answer on the lines or spacesprovided.1. A profile essay highlights specific features of __________________________2. In creating questions for your interview, you should avoid short-response questions andquestions 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 yoursubject and about the ___________________________ your subject offered that helped youunderstand 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 yoursubject said and did.6. In your profile essay, your thesis statement should include the identity of your profile subjectand 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 willunderstand what?______________________________________________________________________________

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1110. In critically thinking about reasoning in your profile essay, ask yourself if, based on theinformation you related from or about your subject, you have arrived at what?______________________________________________________________________________

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