Week 1 Quiz

In this course's rhetorical situation, which of the five questions asks what recognizable form a message takes, such as a text, an email, or a proposal?

Select one.

• Audience
• Genre
• Context
• Purpose

In the food-drive message set, a club member who signed up to run the sign-up table is called in for a work shift, so three messages go out. What is the exigence behind all three messages?

Select one.

• The food drive itself, held at the community center
• The events committee's official volunteer roster
• The club leader's approval of the change
• The work shift that pulled the club member away

In the food-drive message set, the text to a friend runs 27 words and the note to the events committee runs 74 words. Which explanation of the difference fits this course's idea of rhetoric?

Select one.

• Formal writing should always run longer than informal writing
• A longer message always shows a reader more respect
• The committee needs the request, reason, and approval
• Committees expect every note to reach a set minimum length

The writer of the note to the events committee made these changes between the first draft and the final note. Select every change that is revision rather than editing.

Select every option that applies.

• Cut a sentence complaining about the work schedule
• Added a comma after "Because of a work commitment"
• Moved the roster request from the first sentence to the end
• Fixed a misspelling of "roster"
• Added a sentence naming who will take the writer's place

A writer's last step before sending a note is a slow check that catches a misspelled word. In this course's model, what is that step?

Select one.

• Proofreading, the last surface pass inside editing
• Revision, because the draft has changed
• Reflection, because the writer is looking back
• Invention, because the writer found something new

In this course's model of the writing process, a writer who stops drafting to go find a missing fact has returned to invention, which shows that the process is recursive.

True or false.

• True
• False

Which list gives the five stages of the writing process in the order this course teaches them?

Select one.

• Drafting, editing, revision, invention, reflection
• Invention, revision, drafting, editing, reflection
• Invention, drafting, revision, editing, reflection
• Invention, drafting, editing, revision, reflection

The running draft begins as a topic, "our college's phone policy in lecture classes", read through the five questions. Who is its audience?

Select one.

• Students who sit in lecture classes
• A friend who shares the same lecture section
• Readers of a campus news site
• The faculty senate's curriculum committee

The rhetorical triangle shows three corners: writer, audience, and subject. Select every one of the five questions that the triangle leaves out.

Select every option that applies.

• Purpose
• Writer
• Genre
• Audience
• Context

A student says, "I revised my essay: I fixed all the commas." Which response applies this course's distinction?

Select one.

• That was editing; revision re-sees ideas and structure
• That was revision, since any change to a draft counts as one
• That was reflection, since the student looked back at the essay
• That was invention, since the student found new things to fix