Final Exam: Composition

Final Review: Composition I (PM)

This is a final exam that was given in Composition II. Not to worry, you will be given the answers. What’s the catch? The answer key has 10 errors. Your job: find the errors and identify the correct answer. Use what you know about APA and the writing process, and resources on the Web.

Essay Structure 1. The part of your essay that states your main point is the a. thesis. b. counterargument. c. transition. d. supporting evidence.

2. A thesis statement should a. state a fact. b. be arguable. c. be written in the first person. d. always be the first sentence in your paper.

3. A transition phrase, like “Another argument against capital punishment,” a. summarizes your main point. b. anticipates readers’ objections. c. signals that you’re going off on a tangent. d. shows how your ideas are related, so readers can follow your thoughts.

4. “While some argue that capital punishment is cruel and inhumane, in reality…” is an example of a a. thesis statement. b. block quotation. c. counterargument. d. conclusion.

5. When you organize your arguments, you should a. always put your strongest argument first. b. always put your strongest argument last. c. explain them in the same order in which you thought of them. d. choose one of these patterns: strongest-to-weakest or weakest-to-strongest.

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6. The part of your paper that summarizes the idea you want to leave in the reader’s mind is the a. conclusion. b. counterargument. c. forecasting statement. d. supporting evidence.

7. The writing process is recursive, which means that a. you must do every step in precise order. b. you must always know what you want to say before you begin to write. c. you can return to an earlier stage of the process at any time. d. every writer should generate ideas to write about in exactly the same way.

8. Which of these is a good revision strategy? a. Read your paper aloud to see if the punctuation on the paper matches what you intended. b. Even when you’re brainstorming, try not to make any mechanical errors. c. Just make the corrections suggested by your teacher or peer editors. d. Assume that your paper is perfect. If readers don’t understand it, that’s their problem.

9. When you search EBSCO, the best way to find reliable articles is to search for a. articles with pictures. b. peer-reviewed articles. c. articles that appeared on the cover. d. articles that have more than 5 pages,

10. If you started the course feeling that you were a great writer, and now you don’t feel your writing is so great, that may be a good sign because a. you know more, so your standards are now higher. b. you know more, so your standards are now higher. c. you know more, so your standards are now higher. d. you know more, so your standards are now higher.

Yes, the answers are all the same. Take the freebie and trek on.

Integrating Quotations and Documentation 11. A quotation mark is missing somewhere in the next two sentences. My mother used to say, “A stitch in time saves nine. Despite her advice, I tend to procrastinate. The missing quotation mark should go after a. nine. b. advice. c. procrastinate. d. after.

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12. Which one of these should be treated as a block quotation? a. An old proverb teaches that “perseverance pays off.” b. As Newt Gingrich defines it, “"Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did." c. According to Dr. Joyce Brothers, “Studies indicate that the one quality all successful people have is persistence. They're willing to spend more time accomplishing a task and to persevere in the face of many difficult odds. There's a very positive relationship between people's ability to accomplish any task and the time they're willing to spend on it.”

13. A block quotation is a. indented b. more than 40 words long c. not set off by quotation marks d. all of the above

14. If you’re not sure about how to handle block quotations, your best strategy is to a. ignore the question and hope it will go away b. take a wild guess c. look up “block quotations” in your text or on the Internet d. all of the above

15. Which of these statements is true? a. Block quotations need no introduction. b. You can never contradict what is said in a block quotation. c. Introduce a block quotation with a sentence that shows why you’re using it. d. All of the above

16 Which of these is a signal phrase that introduces the source of a quotation? a. Plato was a Greek philosopher. b. Was Plato a student of Socrates? c. After Plato’s death, … d. According to the Greek philosopher Plato, …

17. How would you use parenthetical citation to document the sentence below? The quotation is from William Strunk Jr’s Elements of Style (the 1999 online edition). As Strunk said in his classic Elements of Style, “Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words….” a. No documentation is needed. b. Give parenthetical documentation, but don’t include it in the Reference List. c. As Strunk (1999) said, “Vigorous …words.” d. As Strunk said, “Vigorous…words.” (Elements of Style, online edition, 1999).

18. Suppose you want to use a short article from the Internet that has no page numbers. You know that the author’s name is Smith and it was published in 2004. What should your parenthetical documentation include? a. Author’s name and date of publication. b. The author’s name, date of publication, and page number(s) from your printed copy of the source. c. The author’s name, date of publication, and the URL, underlined and enclosed in angle brackets. d. The author’s name, date of publication, and the date that you accessed the site, in this order: 19 Sept. 2003.

19. Which of these is a correct Reference List entry for a list of Research Resources, with no author given, found on the National Institute of Child Health & Human Development Web site? a. www.google.com b. National Institute of Child Health & Human Development. http://www.nichd.nih.gov. c. Research Resources. National Institute of Child Health & Human Development. Copyright May 5, 2004. . d. Research resources. (2004, May 5). National Institute of Child Health & Human Development. Retrieved June 10, 2004, from the National Institutes of Health Web site: http://www.nichd.nih.gov/resources/resources.htm

20. What is wrong with this citation for an Internet source? Albrecht, G. (2003, March). The idea of democracy in Plato’s Republic. Mar. 2003. Retrieved from the Classic Greece Web site at the University of Okoboji: http:www.cg.okoboji.edu/Plato a. The title should go before the author. b. There should be a period after the URL. c. The date the site was accessed is missing. d. It is never necessary to include the sponsor of the site.

21. What information is missing from this citation for an article retrieved through EBSCO? (No author was given.) Automobile quality surveys disagree. (2003, June 4). USA Today, M4. Retrieved July 24, 2004, from EBSCO. a. A period after the date of access b. The page number on which the article appeared in USA Today c. The title of the publication in which the article first appeared d. The name of the database that was searched to find the article

22. If a source has more than one author, how should you begin your citation in the reference list? a. Axelrod & Cooper b. Axelrod, R. B., & Cooper, C. C. c. Axelrod, Rise B and Cooper, Charles C. d. Axelrod, R. B., PhD, and Cooper, C., PhD.

23. Sources listed in the reference list should be organized in this order: a. alphabetical b. chronological c. most recent to oldest d. most useful to least useful

24. If you do not see an author’s name or publication date on a Web site, what should you do? a. Assume that no information is available. b. Check the home page and links like “About Us.” c. Realize that you cannot use the source because you cannot document it. d. Rejoice, because you do not have to provide documentation for this source.

25. APA style suggests that you include the name of an organization (such as CNN or Harvard University) associated with a Web site to a. torture students trying to do Reference List entries. b. provide free advertising for nonprofits and other worthy causes. c. avoid lawsuits from companies trying to protect their trademarks. d. help your readers judge the credibility of a source.

26. The best source for the most current information on how to cite Internet sources is a. Footnotes ’R Us. b. The MLA Handbook, 3rd ed. c. Bedford/St. Martin’s Exercise Central. d. the APA Web site .

27. A reviewer described the Oxford English Literary History series as “a massive gathering of painful erudition." Why would it be incorrect to quote the reviewer as saying the series is “a massive gathering…of erudition”? a. Single rather than double quotation marks should be used. b. Words should never be omitted from a quotation. c. Brackets, not ellipses, should be used to show where words are left out. d. The quotation is punctuated correctly, but it distorts the reviewer’s meaning.

28. You should cite “nonrecoverable data” like interviews a. only in an appendix. b. only in the reference list. c. only in parenthetical citations. d. like everything else—in parenthetical citations and the reference list.

29. Which of these is the correct parenthetical citation for Dr. Thomas W. Phelan, who is a registered PhD clinical psychologist and author of 1-2-3 Magic (2003)? a. (Phelan, 2003) b. (Phelan, T. W., 2003) c. (Phelan, Dr. Thomas, 2003) d. (Phelan, Dr. T. W., PhD, 2003)

30. Which of these is the correct parenthetical citation for this source: NINDS Migraine Information Page. (2003, September 5). Retrieved November 8, 2004, from the National Institute for Neurological Disorders and Stroke Web site: http://www.ninds.nih.gov/health_ and_medical/disorders/migraine.htm a. (www.ninds.nih.gov) b. (National Institute for Neurological Disorders and Stroke Web site) c. (Information Page, 2004) d. (“NINDS,” 2003).

31. Which of these parenthetical citations is correctly punctuated? a. Plagiarism comes from the Latin word for “kidnapper.” (Gibaldi 66) b. Plagiarism comes from the Latin word for “kidnapper (Gibaldi 66) .” c. Plagiarism comes from the Latin word for “kidnapper” (Gibaldi 66). d. Plagiarism comes from the Latin word for “kidnapper. (Gibaldi 66)”

32. If you paraphrase an author’s ideas, you a. use the author’s exact words without quotation marks. b. use the same organization as the author but your own words. c. restate ideas without depending on another author’s words or organization. d. must quote any words you use from the source, including phrases like Munchausen’s syndrome by proxy.

33. If you paraphrase an author’s ideas, you a. need not provide any documentation. b. should use quotation marks and provide parenthetical documentation. c. must provide parenthetical documentation and include the source in your reference list. d. must provide parenthetical documentation but should not include the source in your reference list.

34. If a long passage is hard to paraphrase, one good strategy is to use a. a block quotation of three or more paragraphs. b. mostly the other author’s words, but change a few. c. a combination of your own words and short quotations. d. an entry from Wikipedia on the same subject as your source.

35. Read the passage about earworms below. Then decide which of the two paraphrases is plagiarized. a. Paraphrase A is plagiarized. b. Paraphrase B is plagiarized.

Original DeNoon, Daniel. (2003, February 27). Songs stick in everyone’s head. Retrieved November 2, 2003, from the WebMD Web site:

They bore into your head. They won’t let go. There’s no known cure. Earworms can attack almost anyone at almost any time. No, it’s not an invasion of jungle insects. It’s worse. Earworms are those songs, jingles, and tunes that get stuck inside your head. You’re almost certain to know the feeling, according to marketing professor James J. Kellaris, PhD, of the University of Cincinnati. Nearly 98% of people have had songs stuck in their head, Kellaris reported at the recent meeting of the Society for Consumer Psychology…. “Songs with lyrics are reported as most frequently stuck (74%), followed by commercial jingles (15%) and instrumental tunes without words (11%),” Kellaris writes in his abstract. “On average, the episodes last over a few hours and occur ‘frequently’ or ‘very frequently’ among 61.% of the sample.”

Paraphrase A Paraphrase B They drill into your head. There’s no Earworms, those pesky tunes that known cure. Songs, jingles, and tunes can won’t go away once they get into your get stuck inside your head anytime, any head, afflict almost everyone, according to place, according to Dr. James J. Kellaris. Dr. James J. Kellaris. He is a marketing Nearly 98% of people have had songs professor at the University of Cincinnati stuck in their head, Kellaris reported at the who just finished a study of earworms. recent meeting of the Society for Over 60% of his subjects said they often Consumer Psychology. Songs with lyrics had earworms that lasted for several hours. were the most bothersome, followed by According to Kellaris, “Songs with lyrics commercial jingles (WebMD, retrieved are reported as most frequently stuck” (as 11/2, 2003). cited in DeNoon, 2003).

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36. "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." —Samuel Butler

a. “According to Samuel Butler the man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." b. According to Samuel Butler, "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore."

37. "In the case of women in the workplace, the situation is changing, whether we talk about it or not." —Deborah Tannen, Talking from 9 to 5, p. 130

a. In Talking from 9 to 5, Deborah Tannen explains that for women in the workplace, "the situation is changing, whether we talk about it or not" (p. 130). b. In Talking from 9 to 5, Deborah Tannen explains that for women in the workplace, the situation is changing, whether we talk about it or not. (p. 130)

38. "A good paper incorporates a number of quotations. Each quotation, however, should be there for a reason." —Mrs. Flaherty, my ninth-grade English teacher

a. I'm aware of the necessity of including quotations in my essays. "Each quotation . . . should be there for a reason." (Mrs. Flaherty, my ninth grade English teacher) b. I'm aware of the necessity of including quotations in my essays, but as my ninth-grade English teacher, Mrs. Flaherty, pointed out, "Each quotation . . . should be there for a reason."

39. "Just what do we mean by smell?" —Diane Ackerman, A Natural History of the Senses, p. 24

a, "Just what do we mean by smell?" Diane Ackerman asks (24). b. "Just what do we mean by smell," Diane Ackerman asks (p. 24)?

40. "Of all the famous men who ever lived, the one I would most like to have been was Socrates." —Woody Allen, The Complete Prose of Woody Allen, p. 335

a. Woody Allen remarks that "of all the famous men who ever lived, the one I would most like to have been was Socrates" (p. 335). b. Woody Allen remarks that; "Of all the famous men who ever lived, the one I would most like to have been was Socrates" (p. 335).

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Punctuation Choose the sentence that is correctly punctuated.

41. a. Proofread carefully to see if you any words out. b. Proofread carefully to see if you left any words out.

42. a. No sentence fragments. b. Avoid sentence fragments.

43. a. Take care that your subject and verb are in agreement. b. Take care that your subject and verb is in agreement.

44. a. Use the apostrophe in its proper place; omit it when it’s not needed, and use it correctly with words that show possession. b. Use the apostrophe in it’s proper place; omit it when its not needed, and use it correctly with words’ that show possession.

45. a. Eliminate commas, that are, not necessary. b. Eliminate commas that are not necessary.

46. a. Our teacher told us, “Punctuate quotations like Americans.” b. Our teacher told us “Punctuate quotations like Americans”.

47. a. When citing an article, italicize the title of the magazine in which it was published (for example, Nursing Today). b. When citing an article, italicize the title of a magazine in which it was published (for example, Nursing Today).

48. a. Its important to put every apostrophe in it’s place. b. It’s important to put every apostrophe in its place.

49. a. Watch out for homonyms like their and there; they’re confusing. b. Watch out for homonyms like their and there; there confusing.

50 a. Take pain’s to spell and punctuate correctly. b. Take pains to spell and punctuate correctly.

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Name______

a 1. a 11. d 21. c 31. a 41.

a 2. b 12. b 22. a 32. b 42.

d 3. d 13. a 23. c 33. a 43.

c 4. c 14. b 24. c 34. a 44.

d 5. a 15. a 25. b 35. b 45.

a 6. d 16. d 26. b 36. a 46.

b 7. c 17. d 27. a 37. a 47.

a 8. a 18. c 28. b 38. b 48.

b 9. d 19. d 29. a 39. b 49.

c 10. c 20. d 30. a 40. b 50.

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