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.