Middle Level English OSAT Exam Questions and Answers with Complete Solutions Latest Update
Generic type of speeches - Answers welcome, thank-you, keynote addresses, position papers,
commemorative and dedication, farewell.
Benefit of Digital Media - Answers Networking affords teachers and students interconnected
communication and information, plus formats and experiences that can be customized to the diversity
of individual learners.
Reasons to have an organized speech - Answers When ideas in a speech are well-organized and adhere
to a consistent pattern, the speaker communicates better with listeners and is more convincing.
Effective speech delivery should be all of the following: - Answers Vocal control (loudness, speed, pitch,
use of pauses, tonal variety, correct pronunciation, and clear articulation) and nonverbal behaviors.
What should teachers model before initiating class or group discussions? - Answers appropriate
behaviors including active listening, eye contact, affirming or confirming the speaker's message, and
restating the speaker's message for confirmation or correction.
What does active listening involve? - Answers Constructing meaning out of what is heard, being
reflective and creative in considering and manipulating information and making competent decisions
rich in ideas.
Typical speed of speaking - Answers 125 words per minute
Typical speed of listening - Answers roughly 500 words per minute.
Ground rules for small group discussion - Answers 1. Students can only speak about other's ideas,
2. Teachers and classmates can ask students to clarify their ideas, give examples, connect them more
closely to what they read,or elaborate. 3. Small groups can summarize overall points for other groups,
including shared points, differences, and potential topics the missed.
A way to correct a student's erroneous statement - Answers Acknowledge how the student came to a
conclusion but explain how it does not apply to the current context, or explain how the student's
response might be correct in another situation.
A way to make students comfortable with discussions - Answers Ask students to write papers about
what the characteristics of good and bad class discussions, and then talk about them in class. Make a list
of discussion goals and give copies to all the students.
What should the writer do throughout a literature review? - Answers Summarize and comment on each
source reviewed, and relate the findings to the original research question.
What should the writer explicitly state in the conclusion? - Answers How the research question and
pertinent literature interaction is developed throughout the body, reflecting on insights gained through
the process.
,Primary sources - Answers original information, like reports other researchers have made of their
findings and other first-hand accounts written by experimenters or witnesses of discoveries or events.
Where are primary sources found? - Answers Academic books, journals and other periodicals, and
authoritative databases.
Secondary Sources - Answers information originally given by other people or found in other places.
Where are secondary sources found? - Answers cites, quoted, or described in books, magazines,
newspapers, films, audio and video materials, databases, and websites.
APA style is used - Answers Science, Psychology and Sociology papers
MLA style is used - Answers English literature papers and similar scholarly projects.
When should quotations be used? - Answers To stimulate discussion rather than taking its place.
What are sentence predicates? - Answers Verbs
Conjunctive adverbs - Answers Adverbs that act like conjunctions; therefore they connect the
information in two clauses or sentences. (however, then, finally,etc.)
Semicolons - Answers Separate independent clauses, such as "she likes music; she likes to dance."
Colons - Answers separate clauses when the second explains or illustrates the first (she likes music: she
likes to dance to it.)
Gerunds - Answers verb forms ending in -ing and used as nouns, ie. SKIING is a wonderful sport
Lie - Answers the infinitive form of the verb, as in "It is restful to lie down on a bed."
Lay - Answers always a transitive verb, which means that it requires an object, and it means to make
something lie down or to set something down (lay that book on the table.)
Compound adjectives - Answers (paint-chipped, two-faced, beat-up, evidence-based)
often hyphenated, but not always, as in bloodstained.
dangling participle - Answers Often found at the beginning of a sentence, that appears from its position
to modify an element of the sentence other than the one it was intended to modify, as plunging in
"Plunging hundreds of feet into the gorge, we saw Yosemite Falls."
squinting modifier - Answers A type of misplaced modifier that could modify either the words before or
the words after it. It can "look" left or right. If there is nothing to one of those sides, then it is a
misplaced modifier.
,→ Taking a moment to think clearly improves your chances.
(Are we "thinking clearly" or are we "clearly improving"?)
misplaced modifier - Answers a phrase or clause placed awkwardly in a sentence so that it appears to
modify or refer to an unintended word.
Phrase - Answers lacks either a subject or a verb
Clause - Answers makes a complete sentence with intransitive verb
Possessive pronoun - Answers never includes an apostrophe
Three major parts of the essay - Answers introduction, body, and conclusion
Introductions should answer these 3 questions - Answers 1. What is the subject of the essay? 2. How
does the essay address the subject? 3. What will the essay prove?
Informative/explanatory writing - Answers begins with the basis that something is true or factual
Argumentative writing - Answers strives to prove something that may or may not be true or factual.
How should narratives begin? - Answers not with long descriptions or introductions, but with actions or
events.
Should narrative writing details be concrete or abstract? - Answers Concrete, it enables readers to
imagine everything that the writer describes.
Abstract example - Answers "It was a lovely day"
Concrete example - Answers "The sun shone brightly, the sky was blue, the air felt warm, and a gentle
breeze wafted across my skin"
Open letters - Answers intended for everyone to read, may also identify a group or a single person
whom the letter directly addresses.
Punctuation in letters - Answers Dear: in business, Dear, in personal letters
Earliest letters - Answers epistles, including the New Testament's Epistles from the Apostles to the
Christians.
Epistolary novels - Answers frames a story in the form of letters
First North American novel - Answers "The History of Emily Montague" 1769, written by Frances Brooke
in epistolary form
, Major principles that are the bases for blog-writing rules - Answers 1. While readers of print articles skim
to estimate their length, online they scroll down to scan, therefore, blog layouts need more
subheadings, graphics, and other indications of what information follows.
2. Onscreen reading is harder than reading printed paper, so legibility is crucial in blogs.
The purpose for writing - Answers guides word choice
2 major properties that make paragraphs effective or ineffective - Answers 1. Focus
2. Development
Paragraph with poor focus - Answers impedes comprehension because the sentences seem unrelated.
Paragraph with poor development - Answers When a writer misunderstands the audience, depends
overly on generalization, and fails to offer specific details, paragraph development will be poor.
First thing a writer should do for a good paragraph - Answers focus on one main idea as the subject
Narration structure of a paragraph - Answers developed with a story, used as anecdotal evidence to
support the main point
Description paragraph - Answers shows readers instead of telling them, a detailed explanation of a term
that is central to the piece of writing
Example and illustration paragraph - Answers provides the readers with one or more examples that
illustrate the point that the writer wants to make
Division paragraph - Answers dives a concept into component parts, i.e. body parts or experiment steps
Classification paragraph - Answers groups separate things into categories by their similarities (animal
kingdom)
Comparison paragraph - Answers compares two or more things and makes note of their similarities
contrasting paragraph - Answers takes note of differences
Analogy paragraph - Answers compares two things in unusual way, often things that belong to very
different categories. Used to develop their ideas.
Cause and Effect paragraphs - Answers either explains what caused some event or result, or shows the
effects that something produced
Process paragraphs - Answers describe and/or explain some process. Sequence stages, phases, or steps
of the process using chronological order
Techniques to make paragraphs more coherennt - Answers Repetition, parallelism, consistency,
transitions
