Revising, Editing, and Vocab Quiz

Good writing is ---

• capitalization, usage, punctuation, spelling

• meaningful, powerful, clear

• moving things around, adding descriptive detail, deleting unnecessary words or information

• a first draft, after that it gets stale

When you are writing, you should assume --

• your readers are less intelligent than yourself

• your readers are as smart and opinionated as you are

• your readers will be impressed that you even wrote a line

• your meaning will be understood more or less

Bad writing is​ (a)   writing.

• Dull
• Bad
• Descriptive
• most

A first paragraph should do this:

• catch your reader's attention

• continue to develop the idea or events you are describing

• provide a transition between one thought and another

• wrap up, or conclude, your thoughts

You should add a new paragraph when you--

• describe a new idea or moment in a story

• reach the end of a page

• new paragraphs do not help a story or essay flow

• all the above

​ (a)   give authors power over both the meaning and tone of their expressions.

• careful word choices
• dictionaries
• symbols
• rough drafts

This word means an angry or bitter outburst

• vignette

• poignant

• tirade

• perfidious

This word means a sketch or short, evocative piece of writing

• fallacy

• poignant

• tirade

• vignette

This word is a synonym for sad or emotionally affecting--

• empathy

• nebulous

• perfidious

• poignant

Different words for different audiences means --

• As long as you say it, it doesn't matter how you say it.

• Pay attention to who you are speaking to.

• There's only one right way to say something.

• You're the star. DO what you see fit.