Effective Strategies for Answering Questions

The video tutorial covers strategies for revising and editing passages, focusing on organization, grammar, and punctuation. It provides detailed tips for identifying and correcting errors, such as comma splices and passive voice. The instructor reviews a previous assignment, offering corrections and explanations for each question. The session concludes with additional editing tips and practice questions to reinforce learning.

What should you do before clicking on an answer in EdPuzzle?

• Click randomly

• Skip the question

• Ensure you have selected the correct answer

• Choose the first option

What type of questions does the revising passage ask?

• Organization and thesis

• Grammar and punctuation

• Spelling errors

• Mathematical problems

For questions about transitions, what should you do?

• Skip the question

• Guess the answer

• Read both sentences involved

• Read only the first sentence

What should you do if you encounter a word you don't know in the answer choices?

• Ask a friend

• Ignore it

• Guess its meaning

• Use a dictionary to look it up

What is a key strategy for questions about deleting a sentence?

• Delete the last sentence

• Delete any sentence with a comma

• Delete the first sentence

• Understand the whole paragraph and essay

What is the correct way to combine sentences 7 and 8?

• One such study found that native English speakers in Spanish immersion programs published in the journal of educational psychology significantly outperformed monolingual English students.

• One such study found that native English speakers in the Spanish immersion program significantly outperformed monolingual English speaking students on English vocabulary tests and published in the journal of educational psychology.

• One such study found that native English speakers in Spanish immersion programs significantly outperformed monolingual English students on English vocabulary tests, which was published in the journal of educational psychology.

• One such study published in the journal of educational psychology found that native English speakers in a Spanish immersion program significantly outperformed monolingual English students on an English vocabulary test.

What should be done to sentence 19 to make it clearer?

• Change 'employers need workers who communicate in different languages, different cultures should be understood' to 'employers need workers who can communicate in different languages and understand different cultures.'

• No change needed

• Change 'employers need workers who communicate in different languages, different cultures should be understood' to 'employers need workers who can communicate in different languages and workers need employers who can understand different cultures.'

• Change 'employers need workers who communicate in different languages, different cultures should be understood' to 'employers need workers who can communicate and are understood in different languages or different cultures.'

What is the most effective revision to make in sentence 22?

• Change 'hearing' to 'who he heard'

• Change 'hearing' to 'hearing that his friend has died'

• Change 'hearing' to 'he heard that his friend died'

• No change needed

What change should be made in sentence 23?

• No change needed

• Change 'begun' to 'begun'

• Change 'begun' to 'began'

• Change 'begun' to 'begin'

What should you do after watching this video?

• Fix your answers to the previous assignment and resubmit

• Ask a friend for their answers

• Submit the assignment without changes

• Ignore the instructions