Category: Writing

In the second sentence of the eleventh paragraph (lines 49-51), the author portrays the US women’s national soccer team as “on the prowl” and “sweeping” its matches to emphasize the team’s
A. unreasonableness, thus foreshadowing difficulties in negotiating for better pay
B. predatory nature, thus implying that negotiations will be heated and aggressive
C. impressiveness, thus emphasizing the importance of treating them respectfully
D. talent, thus highlighting the contrast between how they play and how they are paid
E. unpredictability, thus suggesting they will make unexpected demands when bargaining
“The pay disparities in baseball/softball and basketball come down almost entirely tothe revenue their leagues generate. The case is a bit murkier for the U.S. women’snational soccer team, which is on the prowl for a second straight World Cup title
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and faces Spain tomorrow after sweeping its three pool-play matches. The teamfiled a complaint against U.S. Soccer in March that states: “Female WNT playerswould earn a maximum of $99,000 or $4,950 per game, while similarly situatedmale MNT players would earn an average of $263,320 or $13,166 per game.” Theplayers claim they face discrimination when it comes to where and how often they
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play, how they train and travel, the medical treatment and coaching they receive,and obviously their salaries.”

Read Sherry Turkle “The End of Forgetting,” pages 565-576.
Answer the following questions:
This essay excerpted from Sherry Turkle’s book Reclaiming Conversation considers the ways in which the advent of “talking machines” is changing the nature and meaning of “conversation”. What do we traditionally understand conversation to be? How, according to Turkle, is that understanding changing? What is her attitude towards these changes? What is yours?
Why are people so attracted to our new technologies or robots?
list all the machines that you talk to in one day; they could be programs, apps, devices, terminals, computers, robots, etc. Write an estimate of the total time in a day that you talk to these devices. Next, write three sentences why they play a key role in your communication.

Written Communication
For questions 1-20, select the sentence that contains at least one error in grammar, punctuation, spelling, sentence structure, or word usage. Do not consider comma or capitalization errors.
1. Which of the following sentences contains at least one error?
a. Engaged employees are fully involved in there work and act in ways that further the company’s interests.
b. Performance management is a process that aims to meet goals through the effective management of employees.
c. The company was frequently negligent in submitting the requested information by the deadline.
d. The new research is intriguing, but more studies must be conducted prior to making any substantial changes.
2. Which of the following sentences contains at least one error?
a. The university’s website lists all available classes with a brief summary of each, along with any required prerequisites.
b. Jenny attends the local community college, and she hopes to complete all required coursework and transfer following the spring semester.
c. The executive management team wanted to meet with the candidates who were scheduled to interview for the open manager position.
d. Brent must decide whether its prudent to purchase the higher volume black and white copy machine instead of the color copier.
3. Which of the following sentences contains at least one error?
a. Jenny complemented her coworker on the new haircut and decided it was time for a new haircut of her own.
b. When asked what time to meet in the conference room, Tom had to think about it for a moment because he had so many meetings scheduled that day.
c. Without sufficient time to prepare, John had to quickly gather all the required documents and rush to the meeting.
d. If there was ever a time for the team to stop and enjoy the moment it was now as they had far exceeded all sales goals for the quarter.
4. Which of the following sentences contains at least one error?
a. Since the project team was in different geographic locations, Eric decided to hold a video conference call instead of an in-person meeting.
b. The team was selected for a group achievement award and the manager was very proud of the work they had done.
c. By delegating certain portions of the work to other members of the team, the unit was able to complete the project on time and on budget.
d. Bernard was nearly finished with the report when his computer shut down unexpectedly, which caused him to loose the file.
5. Which of the following sentences contains at least one error?
a. Olivia wondered who ate all the cookies, and then noticed a trail of crumbs that led directly to Derek’s cubicle.
b. Becky found a sweater left in the conference room and went around the office to find out who’s sweater it was.
c. Noah was nearly done with the memo and realized he had forgotten to ask his manager to whom it would be addressed.
d. Joseph had been with the company for over thirty years and was the only remaining employee who had worked at the old office location.
6. Which of the following sentences contains at least one error?
a. The primary emphasis of early research on leadership was psychological and focused on characteristics typically found among successful leaders.
b. The manager was late to the meeting and the team had been sitting in the conference room long before she came.
c. Tourism have been considered one of the most important factor in the town’s economic development.
d. As most athletes can attest, playing sports such as basketball and soccer requires not only mental ability but also endurance.
7. Which of the following sentences contains at least one error?
a. When budgeting for retirement, employees have many options to consider.
b. Each employee must decide on a optimal retirement date.
c. Future cost of living is an unknown factor that inhibits an employee’s ability to adequately plan for retirement.
d. One important factor to consider is how much monthly income do you require to retire comfortably.
8. Which of the following sentences contains at least one error?
a. Management has recieved many complaints regarding the new attendance policy.
b. The new policy took effect at the beginning of this fiscal year.
c. The old attendance policy was popular with all employees.
d. The change in policy was made to make it easier to determine when employees are out of the office.
9. Which of the following sentences contains at least one error?
a. A business model describes the rationale of how an organization creates, delivers, and captures value.
b. Businesses that have gone public are subject to extremely detailed and complicated regulation about their internal governance.
c. Franchising is the practice of using another firms’ successful business model as a template for one’s own enterprise.
d. In some countries, certain businesses are legally obligated to be organized in certain ways, whether they’re profitable or not.
10. Which of the following sentences contains at least one error?
a. Standardized testing in our schools provides vital feedback on student performance, at the risk of turning the classroom into a test preparation environment.
b. The small number of factual errors in the local newspaper can in part be atributed to the persistent supervision of the associate editor.
c. The community is equally divided between animosity towards, and agreement with, the editorials written by the new columnist at the paper.
d. Any new regulations must balance the desires of business to remain unrestrained and the public to be protected from questionable business practices.
11. Which of the following sentences contains at least one error?
a. Our company is a pioneer in the field of collecting on delinquent accounts by focusing on innovative solutions to our customers’ problems.
b. By focusing on technology and infrastructure, we have increased efficiency, lowered costs, and augmented our reputation as a leader when it comes to customer service.
c. Management thought it was important for are business model to emphasize prudent asset management.
d. We take a comprehensive approach to financial decisions, allowing us to be enterprising while maintaining our fiscal discipline.
12. Which of the following sentences contains at least one error?
a. During the final days before the election, both campaigns desperately searched for ways to ensure their base would turn out.
b. The staff of the department store buckled under the stricter approach of the new manager.
c. A strike was narrowly avoided when both sides agreed on some of their key demands.
d. The new city council tried to make miner modifications to the city’s charter when a major overhaul was needed.
13. Which of the following sentences contains at least one error?

Each August, as students head to college, Beloit College issues the Beloit College Mindset List. The college Web site describes this list as “a look at the cultural touchstones that shapes the lives of students entering college” (www.beloit.edu). For teachers making illusions to cultural events that shaped their own lives, this list provides insights into the students in their classes. The Mindset List infers that older generations will remember an earlier, very different time, but the class of 2012, for example, lives in a world where “Gas stations have never fixed flats, but most serve cappuccino.” They’re world has always included computers, the Universal Studios tour, and GPS systems. A large amount of these students has never shared a bedroom and will have there first experience with a roommate as they begin college. They have lead their lives attached to their cell phones, communicating through texting. They understand principals of multiculturalism and environmentalism, they are unaware that Russia has ever posed a global threat, and they could be classmates with Harry Potter.
Which option below would be an acceptable revision of the underlined selection?
Group of answer choices
principalities
princepts
Correct as is
principles

Opinion | Our Blind Spot About Guns – The New York Times (nytimes.com)
Our Blind Spot About Guns
By Nicholas Kristof
?      July 30, 2014
Sentence Outline
Thesis sentence (main idea)
Summary sentence
Introduction of author’s evidence (quote)
Introduction of author’s writing strategy (quote)
Your Response to the Author and Position on the Topic
Introduction of why you agree or disagree
Introduce a source from library that supports your view
Describe the author’s audience and a possible opposing view
Conclusion (summarize main points of essay and your response)
Paragraph Outline
This section requires 8 paragraphs. Each paragraph should be 5-8 sentences.
Introduction and end with the thesis sentence (main idea) from above
A full summary of the article
Analyze what evidence the author makes his or her point. Use a quote. Analyze what rhetorical mode or strategy—description, compare and contrast, definition, cause and effect—the author uses and how this supports his or her message.
Your Response to the Author and Position on the Topic
Present your viewpoint and evidence that supports it.
Introduce a source from the library that supports your view. Respond to it.
Describe the author’s audience and one possible opposing point. Counterargue that point.
Conclude the essay and why others should adopt your view.
Criteria for Success:
?      Revise your introduction from your Week 2 Discussion. Do not submit the same discussion post. Make substantive changes based on feedback from your instructor and peers.
?      Revise your thesis from the previous weeks’ work.
?      Craft the two sections for the outline assignment. The paragraph sections will become the major sections of your paper. They should not be thought of as the only body paragraphs you will need.
?      A good outline should also indicate alternate points of view, such as other solutions, other causes, or other effects. Dedicate some time to considering counterarguments.
?      In your conclusion, indicate why your argument matters to your readers.
?      Review the rubric found here.

QUESTION 8 0.3 points Choose the sentence that correctly uses the colon. A. There is really only one meat that Jenny refuses: to eat pork. O B. There is really only one: meat that Jenny refuses to eat pork. O C. There is really only one meat that Jenny refuses to eat: pork. O D. none of the above
QUESTION 9 0.3 points Choose the sentence that correctly uses the colon. A. Their wedding invitations contained the following quote from the Roman poet Ovid: If you want to be loved, be lovable. B. Their wedding invitations contained the following quote: from the Roman poet Ovid, if you want to be loved, be lovable. O C. Their wedding invitations contained the following quote from the Roman poet Ovid; If you want to be loved: be lovable. O D. none of the above

Literary Device (1): SLEIGH HILL, THE COLD Example: How on November nights the air is a razor Effect/Meaning: against his throat and if he even nods feel his severed head Literary Device (2): will roll downhill unwinding Example: a thread of blood How his breath clouds Effect/Meaning:_ are spiked with crystals whose light Figurative Language: vibrates every nerve. touch and the crispness bites his lungs Find 2 examples of figurative language and explain the meanings: simile, metaphor, allusion, symbolism, hyperbole or personification. And if he moves the snowcrunch Figurative Language (1): of his boots will boom across the creek on the silver-wired air. Example: How standing there Effect/Meaning: needled with ice he feels the sea of stars shake beneath his skin Figurative Language (2): How from below Example: a passer-by, crossing what seems a ribbon on the snow, looks up Effect/Meaning: and thinks he sees a headless boy Theme and Response: Gary Hyland What do you think the author’s message is? Did you like this poem? Why or why not?

Read the introduction to Cicero’s
De Officiis
. Then answer the question that follows.
My dear son Marcus, you have now been studying a full year under Cratippus, and that too in Athens, and you should be fully equipped with the practical precepts and the principles of philosophy; so much at least one might expect from the pre-eminence not only of your teacher but also of the city; the former is able to enrich you with learning, the latter to supply you with models. Nevertheless, just as I for my own improvement have always combined Greek and Latin studies—and I have done this not only in the study of philosophy but also in the practice of oratory—so I recommend that you should do the same, so that you may have equal command of both languages. And it is in this very direction that I have, if I mistake not, rendered a great service to our countrymen, so that not only those who are unacquainted with Greek literature but even the cultured consider that they have gained much both in oratorical power and in mental training.
You will, therefore, learn from the foremost of present-day philosophers, and you will go on learning as long as you wish; and your wish ought to continue as long as you are not dissatisfied with the progress you are making. For all that, if you will read my philosophical books, you will be helped; my philosophy is not very different from that of the Peripatetics (for both they and I claim to be followers of Socrates and Plato). As to the conclusions you may reach, I leave that to your own judgment (for I would put no hindrance in your way), but by reading my philosophical writings you will be sure to render your mastery of the Latin language more complete. But I would by no means have you think that this is said boastfully. For there are many to whom I yield precedence in the knowledge of philosophy; but if I lay claim to the orator’s peculiar ability to speak with propriety, clearness, elegance, I think my claim is in a measure justified, for I have spent my life in that profession.
And therefore, my dear Cicero, I cordially recommend you to read carefully not only my orations but also these books of mine on philosophy, which are now about as extensive. For while the orations exhibit a more vigorous style, yet the unimpassioned, restrained style of my philosophical productions is also worth cultivating. Moreover, for the same man to succeed in both departments, both in the forensic style and in that of calm philosophic discussion has not, I observe, been the good fortune of any one of the Greeks so far, unless, perhaps, Demetrius of Phalerum can be reckoned in that number—a clever reasoner, indeed, and, though rather a spiritless orator, he is yet charming, so that you can recognize in him the disciple of Theophrastus. But let others judge how much I have accomplished in each pursuit; I have at least attempted both.
Which statement best reflects Cicero’s purpose for writing?
To criticize his son’s choice in deciding to become a philosopher. To entertain the audience by telling a story about philosophy and education. To evaluate the teachings of several philosophers by using a strict set of criteria. To inform his son and to encourage him to stay curious and continue seeking education and wisdom.

A Different Kind of Doctor Dr. Wilson considers (1) medicine the optimum approach to health care. He believes that to facilitate. healing and well-being, it is imperative? to consider a patient’s entire lifestyle, not just specific aches and pains. To explain to patients how to keep well, he uses the (2) of a garden. “If a garden gets too much or too little rain, sun, or fertilizer, it won’t do well,” he says. “But a proper balance keeps the garden healthy. In the same way, the body needs proper amounts of good food, exercise, work, and relaxation.” Dr. Wilson often treats patients without giving them drugs. Many of his patients have begun to feel healthier since they started taking his advice. They’ve adopted such new habits as eating more vegetables and taking a brisk walk every day. As a result, a new liveliness and an increased sense of pleasure and exhilaration seem to (3) from them; many say they feel rejuvenated Despite Dr. Wilson’s successes, many orthodox” physicians do not sanction his methods, and some even deplored them. They see him as dangerously (4) v, a threat to the medical establishment; and they scoff at his drug-free “prescriptions,” calling them powerless (5)_ v s. They fear he wants to (6) |medical progress. Dr. Wilson, however, has no wish to destroy medical progress. To the contrary, he believes that his methods actually are progressive and that they are (7) | by the improved health of his patients. There are other doctors worldwide who agree and who believe he is so (8) at medicine that they often invite him to speak at professional conferences. Dr. Wilson’s patients also believe he is highly skilled, and they are the ones who are his most (9) v supporters. They judge him by a different (10) from those who think medical progress lies only in finding new ways to treat disease. They judge him by the extent to which he helps his patients stay well. 0 of 0 answers correct @ Continue
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EMANATES
ANNIHILATE
ANALOGY
VINDICATED
STAUNCH
SUBVERSIVE
PLACEBO
HOLISTIC
CRITERION
PROFICIENT

5. Which of the following best describes a theme of the poem “The Possessive”?
O A. When children start to become independent, parents rejoice at their new freedom.
O B. When children start to become independent, parents look for ways to support them.
O C. When children start to become independent, parents can feel disconnected and hurt.
O D. When children start to become independent, parents seek the advice of other parents.