PLEASE PLEASE HELP ILL AWARD YOU THERES MORE ON MY PROFILE 8. If you are writing an essay about the history of photography in the United States, which paragraph order produces the most logical essay on this topic?
(a) Introductory paragraph, paragraph about general history of photography, paragraph about photography in the U. S., paragraph about Ansel Adams (twentieth century American photographer), concluding paragraph
(b) Introductory paragraph, paragraph about camera technology, paragraph about the Eastman Kodak Company, concluding paragraph
(c) Paragraph about general history of photography, paragraph about Ansel Adams, paragraph about Matthew Brady and the photography of the Civil War, concluding paragraph
(d) Introductory paragraph, paragraph that compares French and American landscape painting, paragraph that compares American landscape painting and American photography, paragraph that discusses Ansel Adams' national park photographs, concluding paragraph
(e) Introductory paragraph, general paragraph about the history of American photography, paragraph about Matthew Brady and Civil War photography, paragraph about Dorothea Lange and Depression era photography, paragraph about Ansel Adams, paragraph about contemporary U. S. photographers, concluding paragraph
9. Which of the following sequences best represents a standard writing process?
(a) Brainstorming, outlining, writing, revising, editing
(b) Editing, outlining, writing, revising
(c) Brainstorming, revising, writing, editing
(d) Outlining, revising, writing, editing, brainstorming
(e) None of the above
10. A deductive argument is:
(a) a way to structure your writing in which you provide historical background.
(b) a way to structure your writing in which you move from specific statements to general statements.
(c) a way to structure your writing in which you move from general statements to specific statements.
(d) a way to structure your writing in which you use one complicated piece of evidence to support your argument.
(e) a way to structure your writing in which you do not use transitional phrases.
11. If you are writing a narrative about summer vacation and your audience consists of college students, which set of words uses diction that is most exact and appropriate?
(a) Walking, running, swimming
(b) Dude, hanging out, cool
(c) Strolling, sprinting, swimming
(d) Strolling, sprinting, dipping
(e) None of the above
12. The term metacognition refers to:
(a) the prewriting process.
(b) a technique for outlining.
(c) monitoring your own thoughts.
(d) an error in usage.
(e) the structure of an essay.
13. Brainstorming can be used:
(a) only at the beginning of the writing process.
(b) whenever you have writer's block and need to generate ideas.
(c) only twice for each essay.
(d) after you have gone through one round of revision.
(e) once you have finished the final edit.
14. What phrase best describes the thesis?
(a) A controlling idea that consists of a topic and commentary
(b) A controlling idea that consists of a topic and opinion
(c) A controlling idea that designates the essay topic
(d) The topic assigned by the instructor
(e) The first sentence of each paragraph

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1 (b) The Endangered Species Act

2 (b) In The Great Gatsby, Gatsby's pursuit of Daisy is a flight from shame and self-hate

3 (c) In its recent decisions on educational issues, the Supreme Court has been split 5-4 on six occasions.

4 (a) We recall an anecdote about a relative last seen in 1948, and they ask if I still like living in New York City. I go to visit my great-aunts. Questions trail off, answers are abandoned, the baby plays with dust motes in a shaft of afternoon sun. A few of them think now that I am my cousin, or their daughter who died young. I have lived in Los Angeles for three years, but I say that I do. The baby is offered a horehound drop, and I am slipped a dollar bill to "buy a treat."

5 (d) Standing there on the ramp I asked my companion if he knew about the first shipment of airfreight, in 1910. No, he didn't. It was 542 square yards of silk, I said, carried sixty miles from Dayton to Columbus, Ohio. It cost Morehouse-Martens of Columbus $5,000, but they made a profit of more than $1,000 by cutting the fabric up into small pieces and selling them as souvenirs to customers at their dry-goods store.

6 (b) The so-called safety features added to automobiles in the last ten years, in response to requirements by the federal government, have served to increase cost, not safety.

7 (b) Seating capacities of high school gyms and stadiums

8 (e) Introductory paragraph, general paragraph about the history of American photography, paragraph about Matthew Brady and Civil War photography, paragraph about Dorothea Lange and Depression era photography, paragraph about Ansel Adams, paragraph about contemporary U.S. photographers, concluding paragraph

9 (a) Brainstorming, outlining, writing, revising, editing

10 (b) a way to structure your writing in which you move from specific statements to general statements.

11 (c) Strolling, sprinting, swimming

12 (c) monitoring your own thoughts.

13 (b) whenever you have writer's block and need to generate ideas.

14 (a) A controlling idea that consists of a topic and commentary

15 (e) The best perfume advertisements in women's magazines are the Chanel ads.

16 (b) 1, 6, 5, 2, 3, 4

17 (b) There is a custom in the village—I am told it is repeated in many villages—of "buying" African natives for the purpose of converting them to Christianity.

18 (e) All of the above

19 (a) use of another's work

20 About this question, I think it is "which footnote is incorrect?"

(c) Smith, John,The True Story of Pocahontas. Atlanta: Peachtree Press, 2005,

21 (d) One can use the citations to find additional material on a topic.

22 (e) Move it to the conclusion

23 (b) Move it to part 2

24 (e) Move it out completely (omit it)

25 (a) The connection between TV and the Internet

a complex sentence consists of an independent clause and one or more dependent clauses.  

to write complex sentences, we must use subordinating conjunctions.  

all the complex sentences begin with a subordinating conjunction and when it occurs, a comma must be place at the end of the dependent clause. on the contrary, if the sentence begins with an independent clause, then no comma is used.

after  

although  

as  

because  

before  

if  

since  

when  

for example,  

after she won the competition, she became very popular.  

although my father was hurt, he continued fighting for his rights.  

as all of you got a ten, you will be able to leave early today.  

before he went to the war, he asked his parents to bless him.  

if it is cold, i won’t go out.  

since you didn’t bring the homework, you will get low grades.  

when it is hot in the town, everyone goes to the beach.