Week 4 Quiz

Four illustrative sentences on campus questions sit where an essay's thesis should go. Which one is a thesis?

Select one.

• Our college should keep a five-day class schedule, because a four-day week would pack longer class blocks into each day and squeeze out the hours many students spend at work.
• Campus parking.
• Should our college move to a four-day class schedule?
• New students attend a first-year orientation before classes begin.

Which kind of thesis impostor is the illustrative sentence "In this essay I will discuss first-year orientation."?

Select one.

• A statement of fact
• A question
• A topic with no verb
• An announcement

How does the illustrative sentence "A four-day class schedule has pros and cons." fare on the two-part test?

Select one.

• It passes both halves, so it is a strong thesis.
• It takes no real side and fails the specific half.
• It fails only because it is written as a statement of fact.
• It fails only because it is placed outside the introduction.

The running draft narrows its subject in steps. At which stage is "our college's phone policy in lecture classes"?

Select one.

• It is a working thesis, because it names the college.
• It is a question, because it raises a decision.
• It is still a topic, because it takes no side.
• It is a conclusion, because it sums up the essay.

True or false: in a short academic essay, the thesis must always be one sentence placed at the end of the introduction.

True or false.

• True
• False

The running draft's essay map lists three body points: the uneven benefit, the small cost, and the objections with the stated exception. Where does the counterargument live?

Select one.

• In the third body point, the objections and the exception
• In the first body point, the uneven benefit
• In the introduction, before the thesis
• In the second body point, the small cost, because the cost is the committee's first worry

Which illustrative final sentence for the running draft does the job of a conclusion rather than restating the thesis?

Select one.

• In conclusion, lecture sections should be phone-free, as this essay has shown.
• This essay has discussed phones in lectures from several angles.
• Phones are a part of student life, and that is not going to change.
• A phone-free default can help the students with the least slack without a blanket ban.

In the classroom model of an academic essay, which of these belong in the introduction? Select every one that does.

Select every option that applies.

• A hook that gives the reader a reason to keep reading
• The context the reader needs
• The thesis
• The answer to the strongest objection
• The synthesis of what the points add up to

A student's reverse outline of a draft reads: paragraph 2 gives the main reason; paragraph 3 gives the main reason again with a different story; paragraph 4 answers the other side. What does the list reveal?

Select one.

• A repeat: two paragraphs do the same job
• A gap: no paragraph states the thesis
• Nothing: every paragraph has a job, so the order already works for the reader
• An editing problem with the commas

The running draft is written for the faculty senate's curriculum committee, a group that knows the campus well. What does that audience most directly decide in the introduction?

Select one.

• Which side of the phone question the essay ought to argue for in the end
• How much background context the introduction must give
• How many words the thesis may contain
• Which transition words the body may use

After drafting, a writer moves the objections paragraph from the end of the essay to right after the introduction and rewrites the thesis to match. What kind of change is that?

Select one.

• Editing, because whole sentences were moved to a new place in the draft
• Proofreading, because the order was checked
• Revision, because the structure and the claim were re-seen
• Reflection, because the writer looked back on the draft