eng100bc quiz3 otherpunct discussreadings peerreviewessay2

8/12/2019 Eng100BC Quiz3 Otherpunct DiscussReadings PeerReviewEssay2

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Use to enclose supplemental material, minordigressions, and afterthoughts Nurses record patients vital signs (temperature,

pulse, and blood pressure) several times a day. Dorothys shoes (which are red) originally belonged

to the Wicked Witchs sister. Use to enclose letters or numbers labelingitems in a series

Regulations stipulated that only the followingequipment could be used on the survival mission: 1)knife, 2) thirty feet of parachute line, 3) a book ofmatches, and 4) two ponchos.


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Use to enclose any words/phrases that have beeninserted into an otherwise word-for-wordquotation Audubon reports that if there are not enough young tobalance deaths, the end of the species [Californiacondor] is inevitable (4).

The Latin word sic in brackets indicates that anerror in a quoted sentence appears in the originalsource. Do NOT overuse because calling attention to

others mistakes can appear snobbish. According to the review, Nelly Fortadosperformancewas brilliant, exceeding [sic] the expectations of evenher most loyal fans.


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1. Bad movies, (some of which are quite enjoyableto watch), often have a cult following.Omit commas2. Some films routinely make every critics list ofworst films (Usually, these movies are so bad theyare funny.).Lowercase usuallyOmit period inside of the parentheses


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3. A few filmmakers [like Ed Wood] and moviecompanies [like American International Pictures]have acquired fame among fans of bad movies.Change brackets to parenthesis4. Roger CormansAmerican International Pictures[AIP] churned out innumerable inexpensive,quickly made films.Change brackets to parenthesis


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5. One Corman film, Little Shop of Horrors, (1960)was filmed in less than three days.Horrors (1960),6. But the director Edward D. Wood Jr. [1924-1978] has a special place in the world of badmovies.Change brackets to parenthesis


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7. Wood gained new fame with Tim Burtons filmbiography, Ed Wood, (1994).Ed Wood (1994).8. Like Cormansmovies, Woods were made veryquickly, but Wood, (unlike Corman), thought hewas making great films.Wood (unlike Corman) thought


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9. Woods masterpiece, Plan 9 from Outer Space,(Bela Lugosis last film) is a science fiction andhorror film with bad acting, dreadful writing, andlaughable special effects.Space(BelaLugosis last film), is10. Wood said that Plan 9was his) pride and joy.Change parenthesis to brackets


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Use to set off parenthetical material that deservesemphasis Everything that went wrong from the peeping Tom at

her window last night to my head-on collision today we blamed on our move.

Use to set off appositives that contain commas An appositive is a noun or noun phrase that renames anearby noun. They are usually set off with commas, butwhen the appositive itself contains commas, a pair ofdashes helps readers see the importance of all pauses. In my hometown, peoples basic needs food, clothing,

and shelter are less costly than in a big city like LA.

Type word space dash dash space wordfor elongation


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1. Songbirds are a part of our national heritage,each state has its own official bird.Heritage - each2. Some states have official birds unique to theregion.Omit dash3. The nene Hawaiis state bird, is a goose foundonly on those islands.Bird is


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4. In Salt Lake City, a statue of a seagull which isUtahs state bird honors the birds that ate a hugeswarm of locusts without the birds, most cropswould have been eaten by the insects.Omit first 2 dashes5. Other states share popular state birds, thecardinal, the meadowlark, and the mockingbird areall official birds in at least five states.Birds the cardinal6. When Americans think of spring they oftenthink of songbirds chirping in the trees.Omit dash


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7. For many years the Audubon Society, anorganization devoted to nature study has studiedpopulations of songbirds.Society an organization8. Birdwatchers mainly trained volunteers countbirds in small local areas during the year-endholiday season.Volunteers count birds


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9. The numbers of some songbirds thoughfortunately not all have declined alarmingly.Not all have declined10. Although most people appreciate the sightsand sounds of songbirds they may not realizehow modern human habitats interfere with manybirds lives.Omit dash


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Use to indicate that words have been deletedfrom an otherwise word-for-word quotation Shute acknowledges that treatment for autism can be

expensive: Sensory integration therapycan cost up to$200 an hour (82).

If a full sentence or more is deleted in the middleof a quoted passage, use a period before thethree ellipsis dots If we dont properly train, teach, or treat our growing

prison population, says long-time reform advocate LuisRodriguez, somebody else will.This may well be thesafety issue of the new century (16).


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Use to indicate a hesitation or aninterruption in speech or to suggestunfinished thoughts The apartment building next dooritsgoing up in flames yelled Marcia.


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1. Correct2. [A]ll men areendowed by their creator withcertain inalienable rights,among these are life,liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.3. Thomas Jefferson wanted the Declaration ofIndependence to say that men were createdindependent.4. Elizabeth Cady Stantons Declaration ofSentiments announces, [W]e anticipate no smallamount of misconception, misrepresentation, andridicule.


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5. Stantons Declaration of Sentiments wasbasedon the language Jefferson had used in theDeclaration of Independence.6. Correct7. Allusions to the language of familiarliteraturecan lend authority to a text that usesthem well.8. Lincoln went on, Fondly do we hopethat thismighty scourge of war may speedily pass away.


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9. Martin Luther King Jr. expressed the wish thathis children would be judged by the content oftheir character.10. Repetition of structure can be an effectiverhetorical device.


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Use to separate two or three lines of poetry Add a space before and after the slash

Roses are red / violets are blue / sugar issweet Use to separate paired terms Do not use space before or after slash

Pass/fail, producer/director Do not use and/or, he/she, is/or Rewrite instead


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Use the dictionary to see if whether or not aword is hyphenated or compound Water-repellent, waterproof, water table

Use when two or more words are used togetheras an adjective before a noun Richa Gupta is not yet a well-knowncandidate.

Do not use to connect ly adverbs to words theymodify WRONG: A slowly-moving truck tied up traffic


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Hyphenate fractions and certain numbers whenthey are spelled out One-fourth

Use with the prefixes all-, ex-, and self- Self-help

Use with the suffix -elect President-elect


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Use in certain words to avoid ambiguity or toseparate awkward double or triple letters Re-creation and recreation Anti-intellectual double i) Cross-stitch double s)


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1. Does buying lottery tickets and enteringsweepstakes make a person selfemployed?Self-employed2. The odds of winning a major lottery prize areoften over a million-to-one.Omit hyphens


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3. Yet many people, including desperately-poorones who cannot afford the tickets, buy largenumbers of them when the jackpot is high andthe odds are worst.Omit hyphen4. A sensible approach to such sky high oddswould be not to enter the lottery at all.Sky-high


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5. Sweepstakes are well-known to anyone with amailbox.Omit hyphen6. Unlike lotteries, apparently-free sweepstakesdo not require any cash investment other than theprice of a stamp.Omit hyphen


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7. Yet many sweepstakes imply that buying amagazine-subscription or a product improves thechances of winning.Omit hyphen8. Some sweepstakes companies have beenaccused of trying to dupe customers who do notread the fine-print.Omit hyphen


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9. Some elderly people have thrown away theirgreat grandchildrens inheritance, buyinghundreds of products they dont need fromsweepstakes advertisers.Great-grandchildrens10. The idea of getting rich with minimal work orinvestment is so strikingly-attractive that manypeople put logic aside and come up with themoney.Omit hyphen


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Need 6 groups Discuss assigned essay

Multiple choice homework Journal prompt

Take notes In next group, you will be the authority andreport to your new group what the first groupdiscussed.


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On Teenagers and Tattoos1. According to Marin, what is the typical parental reactionto such markings [tattoos and piercings]?Black Men and Public Space2. What types of evidence does Staples provide to illustratehis point that black men can alter public space?Driving Us to Distraction3. How does the essay make use of cause and effect? Doesit analyze causes, effects, or both?My Daily Dives in the Dumpster4. In what ways does the essay use process as a writingstrategy?The Culture of Martyrdom5. How does Brooks use process in his essay?Almost Time to Write. Almost Time...6. What is the relationship between the subject of theessay and its structure?


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General Thoughts1. Martin argues that tattoos can be interpretedas proof of toughness and machismo, as actsof rebellion, as desires to memorialize dearlyheld persons or concepts. (D)2. According to Martin, understanding whyteenagers choose to get tattoos can also be away of better understanding teenagers. (A)3. Martin surmises that the anchor was a popular

tattoo because of its association wit stability.(D)


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General Thoughts4. Martins first Case Vignette involves athirteen-year-old boy who wanted tomemorialize his dead father. (B)5. Among the individuals who Martin believes get

tattoos for fleeting reasons are hospitalized orincarcerated youth. (E)


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On Teenagers and Tattoos1. According to Marin, what is the typical parentalreaction to such markings [tattoos andpiercings]?

In paragraph 2, Martin writes about the conflict.Adolescents might see such markings aspersonalizing and beautifying their bodies,while parents construe them as oppositionaland enraging affronts to their authority. Someparents see this as a form of self-mutilation.


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General Thoughts4. The reactions of other pedestrians to hispresence make Staple feel alienated fromthose he encounters, aware of the dangers thatsurround him, conscious of the stereotyped

image by which he is judged, aware of thefears of others. (E)5. Now, when Staples walks late at night, hewhistles selections from classical music. (C)


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Black Men and Public Space2. What types of evidence does Staples provide to

illustrate his point that black men can alterpublic space?

The evidence comes from his own personalexperiences as well as those of a fellow black,male journalist.


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General Thoughts1. According to the article, a serious safetyhazard on the road is using a cell phone. (A)2. The profession that 2% of effective multi-taskers are skilled at doing is fighter pilot. (B)3. Thirty-seven percent of the population is fairlyimpassive to the new law. (E)4. The Center for Auto Safety proposes that allnew cars have a device that prevents all calls

except in an emergency. (E)5. The main goal of the Center for Auto Safety isto make talking and driving sociallyunacceptable. (A)


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Driving Us to Distraction3. How does the essay make use of cause and

effect? Does it analyze causes, effects, or both?It analyzes effects the impact on drivers.


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General Thoughts1. Divers, Eighner argues, move through apredictable series of stages in learning toscavenge, including disgust and self-loathing,a compulsion to acquire everything they touch,

a realization that they must restrict themselvesto those things immediately useful,satisfaction at having found something useful.(E)2. Many people will salvage something from adumpster, but what separates the amateurfrom the professional diver is eatingdiscarded food. (A)


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General Thoughts3. According to Eighner, can scroungers differfrom scavengers in that they are peole whomust have small amounts of cash, they valueonly the cans and will ignore other valuable orusable items, they make a mess of thedumpsters, they are often drug addicts. (E)4 One important lesson Eighner mentions ashaving learned from his experiences in divingis that all material things are short-lived andnot worth centering ones life around. B)5. According to Eighner, the wise diver shareswith the very wealthy the realization that thequest for things is endless. (D)


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My Daily Dives in the Dumpster4. In what ways does the essay use process as a

writing strategy?Process underlies two aspects of the essay- Implicitly described process of diving toinclude eating safely- Explicitly described predictable stages that a

scavenger goes through disgust and self-loathing, desire to acquire everything,realization to keep only the useful)


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General Thoughts1. Brooks major purpose in the essay seems tobe to show how culture has created theprocess of martyrdom. (D)2. Suicide bombing is a relatively new thing,

beginning roughly in the 1980s. (B)3. Typically, suicide bombers in the Middle Eastare motivated by loyalty to their group. (E)4. According to Brooks, most Palestinians regard

suicide bombings as an acceptable means ofresisting Israel (C)5. Throught the essay, Brooks likens the cultureof martyrdom to a drug addiction. (A)


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The Culture of Martyrdom5. How does Brooks use process in his essay?The core of the essay uses process to describe

how suicide bombers are recruited.


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General Thoughts1. According to Werner, habits can lead to aproductive life if balanced. (B)2. Werner justifies so much time spent on socialnetworking sites by saying she needs them to

fact check. (B)3. The irony about Werner applying lip balm toinsure she remains concentrated on her workis that depsite putting on her lip balm to keepfrom focusing on her dry lips, she is far fromconcentrated on her work. (A)


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General Thoughts4. Werner decided to keep her FB and MySpaceaccounts because she simply likes socialnetworking. (B)5. Werners ultimate plan to becoming more

focused on her work is that she plans oncontinuing with her current procedures andhope for the best. (E)


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Almost Time to Write. Almost Time...6. What is the relationship between the subject of

the essay and its structure?Its structure mimics the delaying tactics of the

writer a process description of a process.


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On peer review sheet, writeReviewed by: (insert your name)Summary author: peers name)Exchange essays.Read the essay and complete the peer reviewsheet.Give both to author (your peer).


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Essay 2 final copy (causal or process) Submit rubric, prewrite, plan, rough, peer review,

Prewrite & Plan (causal or process) Submit rubric, prewrite, plan of essay not

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