LESSON TWO REVIEW QUESTIONS
LESSON TWO -- Steps to Effective Communication
Questions: 25
INSTRUCTIONS: The following items will test your grasp of the material in this lesson. There is only one correct answer for each item. When you complete the exercise, check your answers with the asnwer key that follows. If you answer any item incorrectly, study that part of the lesson again before continuing. Answer the following 25 multiple-choice questions. Choose the BEST answer for each question, and select the corresponding letter.
1.
What is the most logical sequence to follow in preparing to write?
a. Choose the right format, make an outline, and select a pattern of organization.
b. Perform research, develop an outline of the topic, and choose the right format.
c. Check the accuracy, brevity and completeness, clarity, coherence, and unity of your paper.
d. Define the problem, state your purpose, identify your audience, do research, and relate the writing to the reader.
2.
What are the chronological steps to effective communication?
a. Plan, research, draft, proof, and go final.
b. Research, draft, revise, proof, and go final.
c. Plan, research, draft, revise, proof, and produce a final draft.
d. Research, plan, draft, revise, proof, and produce a final draft.
3.
How many distinct characteristics make up the research process?
4.
Research begins with a question which has a definite audience. What else is important to research?
a. A stated purpose, a definite plan of action, and the written paper.
b. A stated purpose, subproblems, a hypothesis, a plan of action, and what data to accept.
c. A stated purpose with clear subproblems, and a hypothesis supported by specific data.
d. A stated purpose, a hypothesis to prove, a plan of action, and supported by selected data.
5.
What does research data consist of?
6.
What is true about data?
7.
What is the first step in research?
8.
What is the purpose of mindmapping?
9.
What is the very heart of any paper you write?
10.
What is the value of a thesis statement?
11.
What does your thesis statement consist of?
12.
What is the value of a written outline?
13.
What is a good outline like?
14.
What is your purpose as a communicator?
15.
What are three reasons why writers don't revise?
16.
What does it mean when we say our writing exhibits good logic?
17.
What is your task when writing the first draft?
18.
What should be your focus when writing the first draft?
19.
What does clarity in writing require?
20.
What does accuracy mean?
21.
What is the meaning of precision?
22.
What is the meaning of significance?
23.
What does "proofing from the bottom to the top" mean?
24.
What is the meaning of breadth?
25.
What is a hypothesis?