Deck 1: Reading and Writing for Success in College

Question 1

Prereading, or preparing to read, includes which of the following activities?

A) analyzing the title and subheadings
B) finding out about the author
C) focusing your attention on the subject matter
D) all of the above

Answer 1

all of the above

Question 2

How many times should you expect to read a passage to understand it critically?

A) five
B) ten
C) one
D) three

Answer 2

three

Question 3

The reading strategy chunking involves

A) keeping a journal of your thoughts as you read.
B) highlighting as many ideas as you can find.
C) circling the main idea and drawing horizontal lines to separate the topics that support the main idea
D) creating graphic organizers for the reading material.

Answer 3

circling the main idea and drawing horizontal lines to separate the topics that support the main idea

Question 4

When you plan your paper, you should think of the following three items:

A) your subject, due date, and paper length
B) your subject, teacher's grading style, and audience
C) your feelings, purpose, and grammar skill
D) your subject, purpose, and audience

Question 5

A topic sentence serves as

A) the controlling idea for the paragraph.
B) a very broad idea of the topic.
C) a very narrow aspect of the topic.
D) a supporting detail in the paragraph.

Question 6

Which of the following is not a type of organization?

A) general to particular
B) chronological
C) one extreme to another
D) circular

Question 7

When revising, you should look at

A) topic sentence, development, audience, unity, and coherence.
B) topic sentence, development, unity, organization, and coherence.
C) topic sentence, audience, unity, subject, and organization.
D) development, subject, unity, organization, and coherence.

Question 8

When revising, you should always make sure your spelling, punctuation, and word choice are clear before moving on to editing.

Question 9

When editing, you should look at

A) sentences, content, and organization.
B) sentences, spelling, and content.
C) sentences, punctuation and mechanics, and word choice and spelling.
D) punctuation and mechanics, word choice and spelling, and unity.

Question 10

One good idea to catch errors in your paper while you are proofreading is to

A) highlight all the parts you think sound funny.
B) not worry about any spelling mistakes.
C) ignore any problems with content.
D) read your paper backward.

Question 11

When reading, you should look for what the author directly states as well as what the author ______________________.

Question 12

The _______________ time you read a piece of writing is the real test of your understanding.

Question 13

Two ways to organize an essay are _____________________ and _____________________.

Question 14

The main components of revising are ___________________ and _____________________.

Question 15

The three main categories of editing are __________________, __________________, and __________________.

Question 16

Explain one reading strategy and how you plan to use it in your next reading assignment for any class.

Question 17

Explain your entire writing process from the time you receive an assignment to the time you turn it in.