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The title that was originally applied to the series of talks at Carnegie Mellon University at which a professor would answer this question: If you had one last lecture to give before you died, what would it be?

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The Last Lecture

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The title of Randy Pausch's last lecture

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really achieving your childhood dreams

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Pausch's co-author on the book, titled, The Last Lecture

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Jeff Zaslow

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Pausch's relative who also won stuffed animals at the circus

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Dad

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All of his childhood photos show Pausch with one of these

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Smile

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The college English class activity that helps Pausch get on the vomit comet after he first gets turned down

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Research

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Pausch says that people like this are "telling you they still love you and care"

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Critics

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What Pausch got when he didn't get what he wanted

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Experience

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A synonym for indirect learning

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Head Fake

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The geometric shape that describes the flight trajectory of NASA's vomit comet, which rises in a curved line to the highest point in its ascent and then drops in a similar curved path of descent

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Parabolic Arc

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The person who introduced Randy Pausch to others this way: "He's a doctor, but not the kind that helps people"

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His mom

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This sentence, "So today's talk was about my childhood dreams, enabling the dreams of others, and some lessons learned," forecasts the speech's overall

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Structure

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Pausch recommends that when one of these is in the room, a person should always introduce it

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Elephant

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The only skill that Captain Kirk, Pausch's childhood role model, really has is

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Leadership

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Randy Pausch speaks before the college students and faculty at Carnegie Mellon University, but his primary audience consists of

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His children

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The project that Pausch works on as an Imagineer

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Aladdin Attraction

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During the the "Hello World!" class project video, the story takes on a life of its own unexpectedly, the characters do not want to leave because theirs "is the best world!", and the audience feels

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Surprised

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When "Preparation meets opportunity," they create this

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Luck

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One of Pausch's favorite moments during student presentations

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Rollerskating ninjas

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A state of internal conflict that comes when the facts contradict what a person believes to be true

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cognitive dissonance

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The main purpose of Pausch's last lecture is to

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Leave a legacy for his children

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When Pausch admits "I'm good, but I'm not good enough to talk about that," he means

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His wife and kids

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When Pausch refers to "his deathbed conversion," he means

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Buying an Apple Mac computer

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Pausch divides his speech into several major parts. Which one has been "even more fun" as he gets older?

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Enabling the dreams of others

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One "huge" concept that Pausch says "we should not lose sight of" is how important

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Inspiration and the permission to dream are

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The Coach Setliff strategy that calls for all the football team members to play out of their usual position teaches

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The power of enthusiasm

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About which dream does Pausch say, "I guess you can tell the nerds early?"

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Authoring an article in the World Book Encyclopedia

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When Pausch's little league coach, Jim Graham, doesn't bring footballs to practice, the team learns that in order to make the fancy stuff work, the players need

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To master the fundamentals

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What does Pausch do that convinces cynics in the audience that he really has won a lot of stuffed animals? He

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Brings out the stuffed bears and shows them

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According to one of the assistant football coaches, how can Pausch know that people have given up on him?

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No one says anything any more when he messes up.

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The principle that helps Pausch board the vomit comet as a journalist is:

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Bring something to the table.

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As a child, Pausch goes on the "Alice in Wonderland" ride at Disneyland. As a college professor, he and his colleagues develop a virtual reality teaching program called "Alice." When such a thing happens in a novel, the literary device is called

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Foreshadowing

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In order to get help, people have to tell others

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The truth

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In the lessons learned toward the end of the lecture, Pausch recommends that people

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Show gratitude, find the best in everybody, be prepared, choose to work harder instead of complaining, and never give up.

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Pausch says, "We cannot change the cards we are dealt,

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Just how we play them

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Pausch says that the brick walls are there to

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Give people a chance to show how badly they want something and to keep out those who don't want it badly enough to work for it.

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Which childhood dream teaches Pausch that one does not have to achieve a goal to learn from pursuing it?

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The NFL

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Pausch and his wife don't enroll their children in a sport league just to learn football. What do they want their kids to learn when they play little league football?

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Head Fake learnings

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What opens the door for Pausch to work at Imagineering?

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Virtual Reality, briefing the secretary of defense on VR and he had to talk to disney because they had the best virtual reality system.

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An institution of higher learning in which students and faculty participate in the making of knowledge

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University

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The learning level that consists of drawing information from relevant sources and arriving at a well-formed, coherent whole that includes parts of others, yet forms something entirely new

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Synthesis

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Words in a sentence that indicate the source of a quotation, paraphrase, or summary

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Credit tag

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The learning level that consists of transferring training by independently selecting the behaviors appropriate to a concrete task

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Application

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The practice of examining the thinking process carefully to clarify and improve understanding by appraising alternative courses of action realistically, discussing them in an organized way, implementing one, monitoring the result for effectiveness, and making changes until one achieves the desired outcome or changes the goal

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Critical thinking

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The learning level that consists of setting up appropriate standards or values according to a purpose and determining how closely the idea or object meets them

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Evaluation

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A mode of thinking that people engage in when they are so deeply involved in a cohesive in-group that their need for acceptance and sense of belonging overrides their motivation to appraise alternative courses of action realistically

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Groupthink

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The learning level that consists of being able to state previously learned facts and details about a topic on demand

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Knowledge

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The learning level that consists of seeing not only how parts make up a whole, but also how each part relates to each of the other parts with an awareness of the rules and dynamics of the relationship

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Analysis

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The learning level that consists of understanding the significance and purpose of a set of information that one knows

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Comprehension

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Matching definitions on an objective test fall into which category?

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Knowledge

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Which of the following is NOT an evaluation keyword?

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Pretend

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Which answer below lists the types of analysis?

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Comparison, classification/division, and cause and effect relationship Relationship of implication and relationship of an inductive generalization to supporting evidence Numerical relationship and relationship of a value, skill, or definition to an example of its use

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Anything one person asks another to do

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Can be classified in one or another of the categories

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Which statement below is true about the knowledge level?

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The majority of the world's population operates at that level most of the time.

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When a question is an evaluation, what should a student do if neither the question nor the instructor provide the criteria for making the judgment?

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Identify the criteria s/he has applied clearly and explicitly

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Bloom's taxonomy is a synonym for

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The levels of learning

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(No insensitivity or offense is intended with this question. Mental illness is a very serious problem. The question is asked because it indicates mastery.) Which phrase below if placed in the blank at the end finishes the rhyme as a person with dual personalities would? Roses are red. Violets are blue. I'm schizophrenic, And

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So am I.

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Read this question from the quiz in a college class in the education department: "Compose a poem which expresses your understanding of the effect of group work (collaborative or cooperative learning) on learning." Identify the highest level at which the question works.

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Synthesis

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Read this question from a quiz in an introductory fine arts college class which includes a unit on the basic elements of an orchestra: "List all of the instruments in the percussion section of an orchestra." Identify the highest level at which the question works.

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Knowledge

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Read this question from a quiz in a college political science class: "Draw a flowchart illustrating change in the flow of power when Vermont Senator Jim Jeffords' resigned from the Republican party in May of 2001." Identify the highest level at which the question works.

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Comprehension

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Which statement below is true about the synthesis level?

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it is the skill level most likely to yield effective solutions to life's biggest problems.

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Knowing the levels can help a student when taking a test in any class or doing anything else if s/he

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Decides what kind of task it is and responds to it at that learning level

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Essays in this class call for bringing in the voices of others who have studied each topic to work along with yours in setting forth an original perspective. Therefore, which is the highest level at which writing the essays for this class works?

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Synthesis

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Imaginative short stories and novels that focus on one or a few characters who undergo a change or development as they interact with other characters

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Prose Fiction

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The sharpened, focused expression of thought and study

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Writing

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An organized, connected, and fully developed set of paragraphs that expand on a central idea or argument

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Essay

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The process of following a work, responding to the words, capturing the details, ideas, implications, and assumptions behind what is happening, verifying the accuracy and truth in it, then articulating an emotional response

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Active reading

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An organizing sentence that plans or forecasts the major topics treated in an essay

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Thesis sentence

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The slang term originally applied to a female rock star's followers who tried to imitate her. Like them, Wangero Leeewanika Kemanjo attempts to emulate members of a different group.

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Wannabe

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The characteristic of correct and coherent writing that develops when the interaction of facts develops a convincing, illuminating, logically sound idea through the accurate reading of a literary text

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Argumentative edge

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An assertion about how a paragraph supports the thesis

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Topic sentence

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The kind of observations which come from minimal first responses and do little more than record details about the action

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Assimilative

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Written or oral compositions that tell stories, dramatize situations, express emotions, and analyze and advocate ideas

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Literature

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Identify a major mistake writers make when writing about literature. They

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do no more than retell the story or reword an idea

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What type of reading garners general agreement about its value, according to the textbook editors?

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Systematic and extensive

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A successful essay about literature is a brief but thorough (not exhaustive) examination of a literary work in light of what?

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character, point of view, symbolism

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In the sample essays throughout the textbook, what does the underlining indicate?

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thesis sentences, central ideas, and topic sentences

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To avoid becoming a slave to the order in the literature one writes about, with what can the student writer start? With

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...

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Which verb tense should a student writer use when writing about characters and/or events literature?

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Present

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With what should a student writer never be satisfied?

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to leave the idea exactly where s/he found it

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How do main ideas support the conclusions?

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They show that the bulk of material leads to the conclusion.

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When a paragraph types up as a whole page, double-spaced, what should a student do?

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Divide it into paragraphs that are about nine double-spaced lines long or so.

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Which statement is true about the three stages of writing?

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A writer may go back to a previous stage when a new idea occurs or something different is needed.

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The primary principle to remember when assembling materials and beginning to write is that

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The writer should make the uncertainties in the writing process work for him or her, not against.

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Which sentence offers an idea, not a fact, about the story?

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Maupassant's surprise ending symbolizes the need for always being truthful.

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Which words or phrases below, used to stress the relationship of the examples to the topic of the paragraph, fit in any essay regardless of topic?

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In keeping with the idea

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According to the textbook editors, good sentences in serious writing should be

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so strong, forceful, exact, and comprehensive that a reader needing to make a decision based on what the writer says has as much of the information as the author can provide in a good faith effort.

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Which statements below are true about the process of complete, polished, well-formed pieces of writing? The process of writing itself

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involves launching a poor first draft that the writer nevertheless adds to, cuts into, revises, rewords, sharpens and smoothes out into a successfully argued and naturally flowing essay.

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What does a reader who has read the work expect the student writer to do in the essay?

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Demonstrate thinking

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When a writer exercises the right to develop a counterintuitive view, one that departs from the one to which the author of a literary text seems to want a reader to go, s/he is cultivating the habit of

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Thinking for him- or herself

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The editors maintain that printing out and revising from several marked-up drafts permits a student writer to do what?

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Make improvements

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Why do many writers compose the introduction last? Because

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As a writer works, s/he may learn s/he has been wrong, and change the thesis and content totally from what s/he thought it would be when s/he started out

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Which verb, if inserted in the blank in the next sentence, is correct for discussing events in a work of literature? Mathilde ____ a diamond necklace for the ball.

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Borrows

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Which verb, if inserted in the blanks in the next sentence, is correct for discussing events in the author's life? Guy de Maupassant's short story, ''The Necklace,'' _____ a hit as soon as it ____ published in the Paris newspaper Le Gaulois on February 17, 1884.

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Was

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Which sentence below uses the verb tense that is correct for discussing events in a work of literature?

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When she meets her friend on the street, they talk about former times.

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Which sentence below is the best example of a specific, analytical central idea, one that combines a topic with an outcome? Remember, in all multiple choice questions, choose the BEST answer.

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In "The Necklace," Mathilde Loisel's strengths and weaknesses are connected to the real and imaginary places in the story.

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Which sentence is more exact?

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Mathilde Loisel's dreams of luxury prevent her from appreciating her own possessions, so she borrows a necklace to dress well for the party.

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How many readers are in the primary audience for the essays written in this class?

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1 - the instructor

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Assume that each sentence below is the first time an author is mentioned in a student essay. Which sentence uses the author's name correctly?

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Charles Dickens' 1850 novel, David Copperfield, lays out many of the consequences that follow for those who do and do not follow "the first mistaken impulse of an undisciplined heart."

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Assume that each sentence below is the second time an author is mentioned in a student essay. Which sentence uses the author's name correctly?

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Dickens' David Copperfield, lays out many of the consequences that ensue for those who do and do not follow "the first mistaken impulse of an undisciplined heart."

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The level of learning at which the process of weaving found information from different sources with one's own ideas to create something new that performs as a whole works

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Synthesis

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The systematic use of primary and secondary sources in studying a literary problem

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Literary research

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Texts which provide someone else's assessment of a literary work with information that sheds light upon and interprets the original

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Secondary sources

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The restatement of information in one's own words

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Paraphrase

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The act of presenting other people's work as one's own by not making it absolutely clear that the paraphrase or copied text or idea was originally discovered by another, not the writer, grounds for firing in many jobs and expulsion in school

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Plagiarism

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The high quality to which writing rises when it reveals new information, gives a new perspective on a topic or information that the audience knows, or provides entertainment value equal to, or exceeding, the worth of the time it takes to read it

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Informativeness

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The original texts of literature or art that a researcher studies for him- or herself, firsthand and hands-on

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Primary Sources

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The heading that the MLA prescribes for the list at the end of a research essay that includes the books, articles, and electronic sources a student has actually taken paraphrases or quotes from and used in the body

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Works Cited

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The references one can consult when doing research - people, original surveys, media such as television programs or motion pictures, and print or electronic books and articles

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Sources

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The act of systematic investigation, examination, and experimentation that is the basic tool of intellectual inquiry

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Research

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Of the two major reference systems for use in a research paper, which one has the MLA preferred since 1984?

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Parenthetical references or in-text citations

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The MLA-style heading for the list of references at the end of a research essay which uses only print sources is

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Works Cited

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In the body of an essay and in the list of sources, the title of a book should be set off by

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Italicizing it -- Book Title

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Read this research task: Compare Shakespeare's "Sonnet 30" to the Levertov poem. At what learning level does assignment work?

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Analytical or above

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Read this research task: Learn details that help explain the meaning of the works. At which level does it work, knowledge or analytical level and above?

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Knowledge

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To identify the writer of a quotation or paraphrase from a signed work, a student writer inserts parentheses with what in them after the quote or paraphrase?

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The author's last name and the page number

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Why is the list of sources for an essay formatted in its special way?

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To make it easy for the reader to find each one

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With what does each entry in the bibliography end?

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A period

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