What is State, Elaborate, Exemplify, & Illustrate.
100
The female pilot who wrote about lacrosse and risk-taking in sports.
Who is Lane Wallace.
100
The author of "The Importance of Writing Badly."
Who is Bruce Ballenger?
100
We read an essay called, "Fighting Bullying with __________." (fill in the blank).
What is "babies." ?
100
MLA stands for this.
What is Modern Language Association.
200
Since not all people see things the same way, it is always important to consider other ________ of _________.
What is points of view.
200
Former NFL player who questioned whether there were too many rules in football.
Who is Nate Jackson?
200
The name of the teacher (Mrs. ________) in this essay.
Who is Mrs. O'Neill.
200
What was Hannah Rosin's original country of birth? (She is a ________-American).
What is Israel? Or Israeli.
200
APA stands for this.
What is the American Psychological Association?
300
A critical "practice" for revising sentences for clarity: The process begins with "circling the prepositions."
What is The Paramedic Method?
300
According to Wikipedia, this is "a long, slender projection of a nerve cell, or neuron, that typically conducts electrical impulses away from the neuron's cell body."
What is an axon?
300
The writer opens this essay by retelling a conversation he had where? In what place? He had been sitting in this place grading papers, and someone asked him a question.
What is the doctor's office.
300
What are the 2 instruments Amy Chua's children are allowed to play?
What is the piano or the violin?
300
These are very important kinds of phrases to use when including sources in one's writing. Examples would be "According to So-and-so,..." or "As stated by Nate Jackson in his article,....". We call these __________ phrases.
What is signal.
400
This is an important part of writing: Looking back over what you have done, reviewing, and reconsidering it. It is like looking in the mirror.
What is "reflection."
400
The neuroscientist.
Who is David Weissman.
400
As described in this essay, some student writers may pace back and forth like expectant _________ the night before a paper is due, waiting to deliver the perfect beginning.
What is "fathers."?
400
As we learned about with the story of the dog on the ocean, people tend to really focus in on stories of individual people or animals--so much that they are willing to donate money to save them. In his book, Shankar Vedantam calls this phenomenon the ___________ _____________.
What is Telescope Effect.
400
For an in-text citation of a passage from a printed book, the writer is expected to provide at least these two things for the reader within the text of the paper itself.
What is the author's name and the page number of the cited material.
500
These are the six levels of Bloom's Taxonomy. (Name in order from the bottom up).
What is Remembering, Understanding, Applying, Analyzing, Evaluating, & Creating.
500
In the third article, on "risk," the author says that because of a concept called _______ ____________, people tend to take greater risks when they are wearing more protective gear.
What is "risk compensation."
500
The Victorian play that the title of this essay comes from.
What is "The Importance of Being Earnest."
500
The phenomenon of parents seeming, perhaps, to be over-invested or over-involved in their children's lives...especially if this impedes the child's budding sense of self-sufficiency.
What is helicopter parenting?
500
The five canons of rhetoric are these. (Name in their proper order).
What is What is Invention, Arrangement, Memory, Style, and Delivery.