ENC1101 Post Test

Having the ability to read and interpret a variety of visual texts is known as _____.

Visual literacy

A writer should _____.

Use various sentence lengths and patterns

Which of the following sentences uses pronouns correctly?

A doctor must listen to his or her patients.

A concise statement about what a writer will demonstrate or explain in an essay is called a _____.

Thesis sentence

Which of the following is a lower order concern?

Editing for punctuation

Which of the following sentences is correct?

My mother warned, "Whoever called Australia had better speak up."

Which of the following examples avoids plagiarism?

Paraphrasing a document from the Internet and then citing it

A research paper is _____.

Investigative and documented

Which of the following is a major focus of revision?

Reorganizing

Editing and proofreading are usually done _____.

After revision

Which of the following is a logical fallacy?

Red herring

Which of the following is a discovery technique for generating ideas?

Freewriting

What sentence clarifies the focus of a paragraph?

A topic sentence

Which of the following has no errors in punctuation or sentence structure?

The hamburger is a popular food, and Americans eat millions per year.

A writer includes quotation marks around another author's exact words but does not provide an in-text citation crediting the source. This writer has _____.

Plagiarized

Which of the following sentences is correct?

There are twenty students in the class.

A good description requires _____.

Concrete sensory details

Which of the following would be considered the LEAST credible resource for a research paper?

Wikipedia

What words link ideas, sentences, and paragraphs to achieve greater continuity?

Transitions

A writer has achieved _____ when all ideas in a paragraph relate to the main idea.

Unity