O.L. #3B Question #1 is worth 5 points – all others are worth 1 point each. Either type your answers directly onto THIS sheet OR create a new file and number your answers 1, 2, 3, etc. 1. The following "gem" comes from the business world and as you can see is filled with redundant, empty, wordy, AND unnecessary phrases. Re-write it so that the ideas are expressed in a much clearer and more stylistic way. To: District Managers From: Margaret Davenport, Vice President Subject: Customer Files It has recently been brought to my attention that a percentage of our sales representatives have been failing to log reports of their client calls in our electronic customer file each and every …show more content…
YOUR RESPONSE HERE: In a thunderstorm, the campers found it safer to remain in their cars than setting up their tents when arriving at Lake Powell. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 6. Rewrite the following sentence to correct faulty parallelism. Hannah told her rock climbing partner that she bought a new harness and of her desire to climb Otter Cliffs. YOUR RESPONSE HERE: Hannah desire to climb Otter Cliffs, bought a new harness and told her rock climbing partner. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 7. Combine the following sentences into ONE stylistic sentence. Use any of the methods discussed in Chapter 8. The X-Men comic books and Japanese woodcuts of kabuki dancers were part of Marlena 's research project on popular culture. They covered the tabletop and the chairs. YOUR RESPONSE HERE: Marlena 's research project on popular culture, covered the tabletop and the chairs of X-Men comic books and Japanese woodcuts of kabuki dancers. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 8. Combine the following sentences into ONE stylistic sentence using ANY of the tools discussed in Chapters 1, 3, and/or 8. The Market Inn is
Include your work for Parts I, II, and III in the same Word file (.docx).
A full and complete paragraph consists of a MINIMUM of 8-10 sentences and follows a
Punctuate correctly. Refer to Strunk and White’s The Elements of Style if you need assistance.
• Employ appropriate textual conventions for incorporating ideas from sources, e.g., introducing and incorporating quotations; quoting, paraphrasing, and summarizing
Item 6: Explain the purpose of Grammar: The focus of grammar in this assignment is to use a parallel structure and adhere to the professional writing standard.
6. You can summarize without listing by using key words and phrases versus whole ideas.
These three techniques are not only what Levitt and Dubner use in Superfreakonomics. With these engaging sentences, readers will be interested in the topic and keep finding the answer by reading through the chapter. This is a good example on how to engage readers. People, especially students, might adapt these methods and use in their own
dances. Martha’s artistic ability drew attention to lots of artistic genres that drew lots of
As I walked up to the building located on Huntington Ave, I thought of it as small castle with its large pillars and was mesmerized with the architecture displayed within the museum. While there I saw three exhibits on display, the “Charles Sheeler from Doylestown to Detroit,” “The Summer of Love” and the subject of this review, the “Showdown! Kuniyoshi vs. Kunisada.” I chose the “Showdown!” as my subject because of the intricacy, the colors, and themes of the various prints of the show located in the Torf Gallery on the 1st floor.
iteral questions have responses that are directly stated in the text. The reader is able to simply locate the information and copy, paraphrase or summarize. (summarize, count, name, list, copy, record, retell).
Although these magazines present a new visualization of craft and women, by putting forward the same theoretical ideas found in women’s magazines of the early 20th century, than pretty no longer makes the cut for what qualifies as significant for craft in the 21st
Chad Hines’s Mimi is a contemporary artwork that uses a multitude of media—wood, fabric, paper, metal, and paint, to name a few. The piece is currently located at CTC’s annual faculty art show at the Oveta Culp Hobby Memorial Library. It depicts a bust shot of an elderly woman, presumably Mimi herself. Surrounding her is a jumbled conglomeration of materials. The piece is displayed on a wall at eye-level, bound by a frame.
This technique is displayed throughout the exhibit as Mutu uses the cutouts of magazines and parts of fashion, plants, robots etc and applies it to her collage giving it a whole new identity to work together to form a unified figure.
1. Correct the punctuation of the following italicized sentence, providing a brief justification for the changes you have made:
Then I introduced the format of a report with an activity in which students were asked to re-order some sentence strips so that a coherent report on comparison between advantages and disadvantages of organic farming could be formed.