Week 12 Quiz

The running draft argues that lecture sections should be phone-free by default. Which illustrative opening sentence makes its paragraph part of an argument rather than a report?

Select one.

• Amy reports that a majority of U.S. states now ban or regulate phones in schools.
• Beland and Murphy studied schools in four English cities that banned phones, and they published the study in 2016.
• The strongest reason for a phone-free default is that the benefit is not spread evenly.
• The Department for Education has published guidance on phones in schools.

An illustrative paragraph reads: "Phones should be put away in lecture. 'the unstructured presence of phones has detrimental effects on certain students' (Beland and Murphy 61). The policy should change." Measured against the four-part integration move, which parts does the quotation lack?

Select one.

• the signal phrase and the writer's analysis
• the quotation and the in-text citation
• the in-text citation and the signal phrase
• the writer's analysis and the page range

The running draft's sentence reads: "As Beland and Murphy argue, 'the unstructured presence of phones has detrimental effects on certain students' (61), and the students they identify are the ones a college most needs to reach." Which part of the sentence is the writer's analysis?

Select one.

• "As Beland and Murphy argue,"
• "the unstructured presence of phones has detrimental effects on certain students"
• "(61)"
• "and the students they identify are the ones a college most needs to reach"

In the running draft's synthesis paragraph, a news article and a guidance page both show institutions acting on phones, and then Beland and Murphy's study explains which students such a rule helps. Which synthesis move does the study make in relation to the other two sources?

Select one.

• It agrees with them by repeating that institutions are acting on phones.
• It extends them by explaining whom the rule helps.
• It disagrees with them by showing that the rule does not work.
• It summarizes them so the reader does not need to read them.

The running draft's body paragraph says, in the writer's own words, that research on schools that banned phones found the gain concentrated among the lowest-achieving students. Because the wording is the writer's own, the sentence needs no citation.

True or false.

• True
• False

The running draft answers the case against a phone-free default. Which illustrative sentence states the other side's best evidence, drawn from the draft's own source?

Select one.

• Beland and Murphy found that higher-achieving students were largely unaffected (61), so for many students the rule would change little.
• A phone-free default is not a blanket ban; it is a low-cost rule with its exceptions written in, so the cost to students stays small.
• Opponents of the rule do not care whether students learn anything in lecture.
• Amy reports that a majority of U.S. states now ban or regulate phones in schools.

A student's research paragraph ends on a long quotation, and the student's own sentences make up less than half of it. Which revision best restores the balance of voices?

Select one.

• Add a second long quotation from another source that agrees with the first one.
• Move the in-text citation to the start of the paragraph.
• Paraphrase most of the quotation and add a closing sentence on what it means for the claim.
• Give the author's full name and credentials before the quotation.

The running draft's works-cited list has four entries: Amy; Beland and Murphy; Carr; Department for Education. The draft cites Beland and Murphy, names Amy and the Department for Education in its sentences, and never mentions Carr. What does the two-way match call for?

Select one.

• Keep the Carr entry as it is, because a works-cited list records every source the writer read.
• Add a parenthetical citation for Carr after the thesis so the entry is matched.
• Move the Carr entry to the top of the list so the reader sees it first.
• Cite Carr where the draft uses his idea, with the page actually read, or remove the entry.

Beland and Murphy are named in this sentence of the running draft: "Beland and Murphy found that higher-achieving students were largely unaffected ___." The finding sits on page 61. Which in-text citation fills the blank in MLA style?

Select one.

• (Beland and Murphy, 61)
• (61)
• (Beland and Murphy p. 61)
• (p. 61)

A chatbot adds a sentence to the running draft that puts the words "raise every student's grades" in quotation marks, credited to Beland and Murphy with a page number inside the article's range. Which steps belong in checking it before it goes into the essay? Select all that apply.

Select every option that applies.

• Open the article and search for the quoted words.
• Compare the claim with the study's real finding.
• Accept it, because Beland and Murphy are real authors.
• Accept it, because the page number falls inside pp. 61–76.