1301-Exam #1

An author asks herself this question as she revises her argument:

How can I find the best reasons and support them with the best evidence?

Which appeal is she working to develop?

• ethos

• logos

• kairos

• pathos

The following is a definition of which word:

the study of how human beings use language and other symbols to influence attitudes, beliefs, and actions of others; the art of making messages persuasive

• context

• paraphrasing

• summary

• rhetoric

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TEKS.ELA.E1.5D

TEKS.ELA.E2.5D

TEKS.ELA.E3.5D

TEKS.ELA.E4.5D

TEKS.ELA.RI.4D

Which of the following elements is missing from the MLA citation below for an online newspaper article (fill in the blank)?

Parker-Pope, Tara. "Tackling a Racial Gap in Breast Cancer Survival." New York Times, 20 Dec. 2013, 

             ____________________________________________

• the page numbers A6-9

• The city of publication: New York City

• The season of publication- winter

• the URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/20/health/tackling-a-racial-gap-in-breast-cancer-survival.html

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TEKS.ELA.E1.5A

TEKS.ELA.E1.5E

TEKS.ELA.E2.11F

TEKS.ELA.E3.5A

TEKS.ELA.E4.11E

Which item contains an effective signal phrase to give credit to the source of a quotation.

• "Until recently, school-readiness skills weren't high on anyone's agenda."

• According to Christakis, "Until recently, school-readiness skills weren't high on anyone's agenda."

• The author states that "until recently, school readiness skills weren't high on anyone's agenda."

• "Until recently, school readiness skills weren't high on anyone's agenda" (Christakis).

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TEKS.ELA.E1.11F

TEKS.ELA.E2.11G.I

TEKS.ELA.E2.5E

TEKS.ELA.E3.11G.II

TEKS.ELA.E4.11E

What is the difference between summarizing and paraphrasing?

• a summary and a paraphrase are the same thing because they both use the student's own words

• in a summary, a student writer restates the main ideas of a whole text in a shortened version using the student's own words; a paraphrase represents a short portion of the text in a student's own words

• a summary and a paraphrase are the same thing because they are both shorter than the original passage

• a summary is full of minor details, a paraphrase leaves minor details out

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TEKS.ELA.CR.5B

TEKS.ELA.E1.5D

TEKS.ELA.E2.5D

TEKS.ELA.E4.5D

TEKS.ELA.RI.4D

Which of the following is cited correctly in MLA style?

• Aers and Stanley stress "the urgency of recovering [the] cultural context" of fourteenth-century English thought regarding religion (1996, p. 271).

• Aers and Stanley stress "the urgency of recovering [the] cultural context" of fourteenth-century English thought regarding religion (271).

• Aers and Stanley (1996) stress "the urgency of recovering [the] cultural context" of fourteenth-century English thought regarding religion (p. 271).

• Aers and Stanley stress "the urgency of recovering [the] cultural context" (271) of fourteenth-century English thought regarding religion.

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TEKS.ELA.CR.4B

TEKS.ELA.E1.11G.I

TEKS.ELA.E1.5A

TEKS.ELA.E2.11G.I

TEKS.ELA.E3.11E