LUOA English 11 Midterm PASSED Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers
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LUOA English 11
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LUOA English 11
LUOA English 11 Midterm PASSED Exam
Questions and CORRECT Answers
What sort of style should you use when you submit a writing assignment or communicate
with your teacher? - CORRECT ANSWER- academic
Which of the following are not considered a part of strong academic writing style. Check all
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LUOA English 11 Midterm PASSED Exam
Questions and CORRECT Answers
What sort of style should you use when you submit a writing assignment or communicate
with your teacher? - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔academic
Which of the following are not considered a part of strong academic writing style. Check all
that apply. - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔a pretentious word you've never seen before from a
thesaurus
1st and 2nd person pronouns
textese
long rambling sentences
How often should you use forms of "to be" verbs in your writing? - CORRECT ANSWER-
✔✔When they are vital
If you just avoid grammatical errors, your writing will be strong. - CORRECT ANSWER-
✔✔False
As often as you can, you should use long, complicated sentences, with multiple dependent
clauses and extra adjectives and adverbs, instead of short, direct, and precise sentences. -
CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔False
Which of the following sentences more strongly conveys a student's responsibility to meet
deadlines? - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔I missed the deadline because I ran out of time.
Which of the following sentences more strongly conveys an agent, or who did it. -
CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔I ran the stoplight when it was dark and foggy.
In both of the preceding sentences, which voice made a stronger sentence: active or passive? -
CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔active
, When is the passive voice appropriate in academic writing? Check all that apply. -
CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔When you want to avoid needless repetition of a subject's name
When the recipient of an action is more important than the actor
When multiple sentences focus on one subject
In order to maintain a strong style, you'll want to avoid choppy sentences. Which of the
following contribute to choppy writing? Check all that apply. - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔A
string of short sentences without variety.
When the same sentence form is used over and over.
When all thoughts--major and minor--seem equally as important
Which style guide will we use in this course? - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔MLA (Modern
Language Association
Which of the following require an in-text citation? Select all that apply. - CORRECT
ANSWER- ✔✔Paraphrases
Direct quotations
Summaries
Which of the following require quotation marks? Select all that apply.
Summaries - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Direct quotations
Which of the following require you to put an author's idea into your own words? Select all
that apply. - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Summaries
Paraphrases
When you paraphrase, you can keep the structure of the sentences and the order of the ideas
the same as long as you switch the words around. - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔False
Which of the following is not an example of common knowledge? - CORRECT ANSWER-
✔✔Information you find in a scholarly journal published for a very particular audience.
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