EDUC 669 Quiz Writing in Content Area
EDUC 669 Quiz: Writing in the Content Areas
Covers the Learn material from Module 6: Week 6.
- What is paraphrasing?
- Prereading prompts given to guide writing in reading response journals may be provided to
- What is true of revision?
- A writer is always transacting with
- When a paper is read for general impression and overall effect, the grading is said to be
- Which of the following is the last step in the writing process?
- Writing journals
- In which phase of the writing process does determination of audience for the writing take place?
- In what subject area should teachers give particular attention to mechanics of writing?
- Oral language vocabulary development is important for
- When responding to study questions as part of journal writing, students are likely to focus on
- What are reports that involve many types of writing called?
- Why is writing considered a catalyst for learning?
- Free writing is a way of tapping the individual’s linguistic reservoir without worry about organization or form of expression.
- Analytic grading scales focus readers on the features that are needed to make writing effective and attach point values to each feature.
- Results of teachers’ attempts to initiate writing across the curriculum have been uniformly successful.
- Help with revision and editing of written work can be found on the Internet.
- Prereading writing prompts for reading response journals or learning logs may ask students to compare the work to be read with similar works or works by the same author.
- Spelling checkers used with word processors make it unnecessary for the student to look up and change the spellings of words.
- “Extreme poetry,” as discussed in the chapter, is poetry that is inappropriate to be used with high school students.
- A précis is an abstract of material that retains the point of view of the original material; in other words, it is a special type of summary.
- Revision can occur at any point in the writing process.
- Content journals or learning logs are checked by the teacher, and errors in spelling and grammar are marked.
- The teacher should be the sole audience for most of the writing done in content area classes.
- Character journals are ones in which students simply examine their personal character traits.