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1102—Mid-Term (Form E) Review each answer—take your time. Remember, there is no partial credit. Put ALL the name(s) on the answer sheet. 1.
Indicate whether each choice is a fragment (F); a run-on (RO); or is OK (OK).
a)
But they won’t. b)
The bank could not account for more than $12,000 even after the bank’s regulatory committee interrogated the part-time teller who told them about the strange woman who tried to use the bank
machine with a counterfeit card. c)
The detectives could only find two people, both homeless vagrants, who actually witnessed the car accident that killed the two children and put their mother in a coma. d)
The mechanic, on his first day of work, shocked himself with a live wire and the paramedic teams
had to revive him with mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. e)
The turkey was burned Thanksgiving was ruined. 2.
Rewrite the second sentence using referential pronouns
as transitional strategy whenever possible. The project’s engineering design team ordered the expensive transpolactic bolts from an overseas tool and
die company. The tool and die company promised the bolts would be shipped at the end of next week.
3.
Read this passage from a job application for a position in an epidemiology research facility. Identify the four bold-faced transition devices.
I always excelled in organic chemistry. (a) But what impressed me most was the work of the Russian Carpathian monk Blessed Rotcod Yewed (1787-1843). (b)
He
was the first to theorize that cells from all parts of the body helped to fight off invasive viruses that attacked specific parts of the body. (c)
Blessed Yewed was mocked
. (d)
That
theory is now the cornerstone of organic chemistry and shapes the entire field of antibiotic medicine.
4.
T or F: The final sentence in Question 3 (marked #4) does not need a comma after the word “chemistry.”
5. This sentence is larded with 8 prepositional phrases. Edit this sentence eliminating all but one of them. Once he was trained by the IT department during the summer of 2019, Stannis Baratheon, who at the time
had no experience with coding, was helpful in the writing of the software application that upgraded the system used for inventory. 6.
How many commas does this sentence need? If none, say NONE. Although the effects of dumping liquid plastic into the community’s groundwater will not be known for years the mothers of the two boys who died of mesothelioma petitioned the governor’s office to
investigate the utility company’s responsibility for dumping toxic tar into the water system and then lying about it for years to both state environmental regulators and federal EPA officials.
7.
These two sentences are linked using three transitional strategies
. Name all of them.
After the mother’s funeral, the brother and sister each hired a lawyer to settle the estate. If that wasn’t enough, they each also hired surveyors to doublecheck the estate’s boundary lines. 8.
Which stage of writing is specifically concerned with making a summary of the Hill article longer? a)
the stage in which you read, reread, and annotate the article;
b)
the stage in which you outline the article, separating major and minor points; c)
the stage in which you write you’re working draft from your notes and from your outline;
d)
the stage in which you insert basic organizational markers: an assertion; a reassertion; and transitions between and among sentences;
e)
the stage in which you seek out a sympathetic reader to respond to your draft to clear up any issues with fuzzy passages; f)
actually, any of these stages will help hit the word count—an effective writer uses any available strategy to ensure they hit the assigned word count. g)
Writing has nothing to do with length. 9.
Proofread Question 8. From zero to infinity, how many contextual spelling errors are there? 10.
In two sentences linked by a single word transition
, explain how Hill sees Millennials and Gen Z’ers as no different from any other generation. 11.
T or F: Friedman discourages Millennials and Gen Z’ers from drawing on their inner child to inspire creativity at work and inspire excitement about life.
12.
My supervisor assigns me to produce for an in-house committee meeting in two days a 3.2 annotation of a 30-page federal government report on how to ease masking mandates and keep employees safe. Explain in a grammatically correct sentence how I have to approach this writing project as a parameter writer not a quota writer. 13. Network writing, that is professional writing, is all about formal voice. Indicate the letter(s) of the true statement(s) about formal voice. a)
Use impressive vocabulary--words like plethora or ameliorate or leery--even if you are not entirely sure of their definition. Big words always impress. b)
Use old-sounding words--like amongst or unbeknownst or whilst. They make you sound like you are grown up.
c)
Use “one”—as in “One may not be able to pursue one’s education because of one’s finances.” Boy, does that sound all grown up. d)
Use a semi-colon whenever you can--that is an adult mark of punctuation--even if you are not entirely sure how to use one.
e)
Eliminate second person--it is way too chatty and intimate for formal communication.
f)
Whenever you can, use “etc” because that sounds like you have so much more to say on the subject even though you know (and we know) you don’t.
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