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CM107 College Composition I

Unit 5 Quiz

Question 1 Let's apply this term to reading a sample academic essay. As you read the following document Medicaid "LockIn" Programs, think about the following questions:

What are the qualities or characteristics of this essay? How does it differ from a personal document or a letter or memorandum or report written for work purposes? What makes this an Academic Essay? Who is the audience that the author is writing for and what is the writer's purpose? Write your answers in the box that follows the essay and then compare your response to the instructor feedback below.

The writer showed focus and purpose to the audience including unity, coherence and development. It had a clear introduction. It showed the three elements of composition: 1. Content; 2. Structure; and 3. Mechanics. It expressed the writer's thinking in an effective, interesting, and organized manner.

 

Question 2 Imagine you are assigned to write a paper on a social problem in America.  What writing activity or activities will help you to generate topic ideas for that paper?

Question options:

drafting

outlining

freewriting

brainstorming

listing

 

Question 3 Imagine that you have selected your topic on a social problem in America.  You would like to write a paper on illiteracy.  How will identifying a specific MAIN POINT about this topic help you as a writer?

After I concluded that I needed to compose a paper with the primary point being 'illiteracy', it would assist me with breaking down who my audience will be. Additionally, realizing my primary subject will enable me to comprehend what my sub-topics in my paper could at last be. Getting the paper composed I can use a few devices to help me:(1) using prewriting strategies, (2) freewriting/bubbling, (3) do some brainstorming, (4) make an outline, lastly locking in to get my paper written.

 

Question 4 Which of the following RESEARCH QUESTIONS might you ask about your topic, ILLITERACY, in order to locate a specific focus and main point about your topic?

Question options:

Why is illiteracy still a problem in this country?

How can communities lower illiteracy rates?

Who is most affected by illiteracy?

What are the causes of the increase in illiteracy in America?

 

Question 5 Let's say you have decided to focus a paper on what communities can do to lower literacy rates.  Which prewriting activity or activities can help you to identify specific actions a community can take to solve the problem?

Question options:

researching what communities have been doing to decrease illiteracy

listing the strategies that you already know about that help in lowering illiteracy rates

drafting your thoughts in paragraph form

brainstorming ideas with a friend, coworker or family member

 

Question 6 An outline can help you organize your ideas and is a valuable tool to use before you draft.  Take a look at the following thesis and outline and match the missing parts in the outline that follows.

I.  Communities can decrease their citizens' illiteracy rates by creating early childhood intervention plans, investing in school reading programs, and providing rural citizens with better library access.

II. ___________________________________________

a. __________________________

b. Children who are read to during their early childhood are more likely to become readers.

 

III. Investing more money in school reading programs can reduce illiteracy rates.

a. _________________________________________

b. __________________________________________

 

IV. _________________________________________________

a. free wi-fi can provide rural citizens with access to more books

b. __________________________________________

__6__  

Parents will be motivated to read to their children

__1__  

Increasing funding for reading programs can help identify at-risk students with poor reading skills

__2__  

Providing rural citizens with better library access will motivate them to read more and will reduce illiteracy among this particular population

__5__  

mobile library vans can take books to rural areas

__3__  

Reading specialists can work with individual at-risk students

__4__  

Creating early childhood intervention plans will reduce illiteracy rates.

1.II.

2.II. a.

3.III. a.

4.III. b.

5.IV.

6.IV. b.