AV1 Written Communications Week 2

Which of the following ways of organizing information requires arranging the information in logical order or a recurrent pattern?

• With concepts or ideas

• With order of location

• Hieratically

• Sequentially

Which of the following organizational patterns is also known as “front loading”?

• Priority sequence

• Inductive reasoning

• Deductive reasoning

• Inverted pyramid

Which of the following is the definition of deductive reasoning?

• Using the most important information first

• Using general evidence to apply to a new situation to hypothesize what will happen

• Using visual representations of information

• Using evidence from specific situations to apply to more general situations

When is inductive reasoning typically used?

• In newspapers

• In academic research papers

• In a persuasive paper

• In a chart

What is a Thesis Statement?

• Summarizes the authors personal opinion, which is given in the preceding paragraphs.

• Explains nothing about the main argument or provide more detail about the topic

• A thesis statement is a sentence that states the main point or claim of your paper or essay. It is usually written for a specific audience and appears in the introductory paragraph, often as the final sentence. It explains the purpose and topic of your paper and guides the rest of your writing. It may be expressed in one or two sentences and may be reiterated elsewhere

The word “and” is an example of which of the following?

• Subordinating conjunction

• Coordinating conjunction

• Dependent object

• Independent clause

Which of the following punctuations separates two independent clauses which cannot be joined by a conjunction?

• A comma

• A question mark

• A semicolon

• A hyphen

Which of the following punctuations is used to join nouns with more than one word?

• A comma

• A question mark

• A semicolon

• A hyphen

Which of the following answers the question “what”?

• Noun clause

• Adjectival clause

• Adverb clause

• Combined clause

A slash is usually translated to mean which of the following?

• Or

• And

• Not

• About