English Composition I Practice Exams FREE Sample Exam

An essay gives cost data, quotes affected students fairly, and presents the writer’s careful research process. Its persuasion is strongest because what?

Three appeals used at once cancel the need for any one of them to be well supported

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Logos, pathos, and ethos reinforce one another

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Readers cannot distinguish the appeals, so weaknesses in the evidence will go unnoticed

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Genre conventions require every persuasive essay to display all three appeals in equal length

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Mara writes a campus essay for first-year students who have never used the tutoring center. Those students are her what?

Intended audience, the readers she actually aims to reach

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Invoked audience, because she pictures readers who share the values she wants them to display

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Discourse community, because any group of readers automatically shares goals and specialized language

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Secondary audience, because students reading a campus essay are never its primary readership group

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An essay opens with a concrete scene of a student studying in a cold car between work shifts to show what housing costs mean. This primarily uses which appeal?

Logos, because a detailed scene functions as a measured data set about regional housing prices

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Ethos, because describing another person's hardship proves the writer's professional qualifications

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Pathos, engaging readers' emotions through a vivid human situation

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Genre, because opening with a scene converts any argumentative essay into a work of short fiction

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Which opening most responsibly uses pathos for an essay on food insecurity?

A stock photograph of strangers crying, captioned as though they were students at this college

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A fabricated statistic about hunger presented in an emotional font and repeated three times

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A threat that readers who disagree will be named publicly as indifferent to student suffering

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A specific student's real, permitted account of skipping meals

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Two essays both support a new bike-share program; one sounds measured, the other mocking toward critics. The essays most clearly differ in what?

Stance, because a mocking style proves the second writer opposes the program being discussed

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Genre, because a change in attitude automatically moves a text into a different text category

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Tone, while sharing the same basic stance

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Audience, because an author who mocks critics must be writing for an entirely different readership

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A writer places ‘community gardens’ in a center circle and draws branches to ‘cost,’ ‘health,’ and ‘campus land.’ This strategy is what?

Freewriting, because drawing circles for a fixed time without stopping is its defining technique

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Proofreading, because checking how ideas connect is a final-stage correction of surface errors

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Clustering, or mapping, ideas to reveal connections

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Formal outlining, because branches arranged by size are equivalent to headings and subheadings

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Cubing asks a writer to examine a topic from six sides, such as describing, comparing, and arguing about it. Its purpose is to do what?

Generate varied perspectives on a single subject

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Assign the six paragraphs of a finished essay so each performs exactly one prescribed function

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Evaluate sources for a research paper using a six-point scale of credibility and relevance

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Divide a workshop group into six roles that rotate each time the class meets for peer review

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A writer schedules four short drafting sessions across a week instead of one all-night session. The chief process advantage is what?

Short sessions eliminate the need for revision, since rested writers produce final-quality prose

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Spreading work out guarantees the essay will match the formal outline with no changes needed

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Frequent sessions count as peer review, because the writer returns to the draft as a new reader

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Time between sessions lets ideas develop and problems become visible

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What is the writer’s proper standard for deciding which peer suggestions to adopt?

Whether the reviewer is the strongest writer in the class, regardless of the suggestion's content

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Whether each change serves the essay's purpose and readers

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Whether adopting the change is the fastest way to finish the assignment and submit the draft

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Whether the suggestion changes the largest possible number of sentences in the existing draft

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Moving a background section before the problem discussion and cutting a repeated example is an act of what?

Structural, or global, revision

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Proofreading, because any change made near the end of the process counts as final checking

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Sentence-level editing, because paragraphs are composed of sentences and so count as sentences

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Focused freewriting, because rearranging existing material generates new ideas about the topic

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Which description best captures active, critical reading?

Engaging the text by questioning and testing its ideas

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Accepting a text's claims as settled whenever its author holds academic credentials

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Reading as quickly as possible so that more pages can be covered in one sitting

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Memorizing a text's wording so that it can be reproduced exactly on an examination

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Before arguing against a source, a fair disagreeing response should first do what?

Announce that the source's author is unqualified to write on the topic under discussion

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Select the source's weakest sentence and treat it as the whole of its argument

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Restate the source's claim in exaggerated terms so that it is easier to refute

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Represent the source's position accurately

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