Revise drafts to improve style, word choice, figurative language, sentence variety, and subtlety of meaning after rethinking how well questions of purpose, audience, and genre have been addressed;
Revise drafts to clarify meaning and achieve specific rhetorical purposes, consistency of tone, and logical organization by rearranging the words, sentences, and paragraphs to employ tropes (e.g., metaphors, similes, analogies, hyperbole, understatement, rhetorical questions, irony), schemes (e.g., parallelism, antithesis, inverted word order, repetition, reversed structures), and by adding transitional words and phrases;
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Q 1/10
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Justine would like to use a more appropriate transition in sentence 5. Which of the following is the best replacement for ADDITIONALLY?
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However
Finally
Therefore
For example
Q 2/10
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Justine has not effectively stated the position she is taking in this paper. Which of the following could best replace sentence 8 and provide a stronger position statement for Justine's paper?
300
I am troubled that more students do not work during the summer.
I believe more teens should spend their summers working to earn money and secure their futures.
Some students think summer is about recovering from the stress of the school year.
Don't you think so?
10 questions
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Justine would like to use a more appropriate transition in sentence 5. Which of the following is the best replacement for ADDITIONALLY?
1
300 sec
110.32.b.13.C
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Justine has not effectively stated the position she is taking in this paper. Which of the following could best replace sentence 8 and provide a stronger position statement for Justine's paper?
2
300 sec
110.32.b.16.A
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What is the most effective way to combine sentences 11 and 12?
3
300 sec
110.33.b.13.C
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Justine wants to use a more appropriate word than THIS in sentence 22. Which phrase could best replace the word THIS.
4
300 sec
110.33.b.13.C
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Justine wants to add the following idea to the fourth paragraph (sentences 23-27).
_________________________________________________________________________________________________**You can earn money for the trip while establishing that you are responsible.** _________________________________________________________________________________________________Re-read th paragraph carefully. where is the most effective place to add this sentence?
5
300 sec
110.32.b.16.D
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What is the most effective way to combine sentences 1 and 2?
6
300 sec
110.33.b.13.C
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What is the most effective revision to make in sentence 8?
7
300 sec
110.33.b.13.C
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Marcus wants to use a better transition in sentence 12. Which of the following could best replace HOWEVER and improve the sentence?
8
300 sec
110.33.b.13.C
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To add an important detail, Marcus would like to add the following sentence to the fourth paragraph (sentences 17-23). _________________________________________________________________________________________________ The light from the bacteria attracts other fish to come close enough for the anglerfish to catch them. _________________________________________________________________________________________________Where is the most effective place to insert this sentence?
9
300 sec
110.31.b.15.A.5
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Marcus would like to add a sentence to help readers move from the fourth paragraph (sentences 17-23) to the fifth paragraph (sentences 24-28). Which of these is the most effective sentences to add before sentence 24?
